Orchestral music thread

[BABMusic]

This thread is for those of us who want to share our favorite orchestra music. I'll start with Ralph Vaughan Williams 3rd Symphony. He wrote this after he served in WW1, in which he was in his early 40s at the time. It captures a lot of feelings that he had during the war, being in England. Some of his best writing, and he wrote a lot of good music.

 

[Monkey Man]

I've always liked Gustav Holst's The Planets.

Dude was ahead-of-his-time:

 

[BABMusic]

Holst has been ripped off by just about every film composer who ever did a space movie. John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith -- they all borrowed from Holst.

This is my favorite from the Planets.

 

[Monkey Man]

Agreed 100%.

Opening track Mars = Williams / Star Wars.

Same goes for Jupiter and others of course.

 

[BABMusic]

Agreed 100%.

Opening track Mars = Williams / Star Wars.

Same goes for Jupiter and others of course.

I think whoever wrote the song I am Evil (Metallica covered it), I think they ripped off Mars too. It's got that same 1 - 5 - #4 thing going on.