Orchestral Anyone???

[Bube]

Besides some mentioned here, I'd like to add Nocturne by Chopin and Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner (which I think is the Apocalypse Now thing Ric mentioned, I'm not sure..).

[KillerGremlin]

I played Viola for 9 years and Double Bass for 4 so I have built a mild appreciation for symphony music...

Anything by Stravinsky and Dvorak is good in my book, it is dynamic, fun, modern stuff. Stravinsky is actually a bastard, he did some fun things with dynamics and time signatures that were never done before....

Brahms Hungarian Dances are good.

Ravel's Bolero is good.

Paganini's Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Minor is one of my favorites....

Rimsky-Korsakov is another one of my beloved favorites...I love Capriccio Epsagnol and Scheherazade

Lately I've been digesting Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (unfinished) which is just EPIC.

I do listen to quite a bit of orchestral music, not a huge fan of Opera but I'm trying to get into it.

[Ric]

Originally Posted by Bube

...and Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner (which I think is the Apocalypse Now thing Ric mentioned, I'm not sure..).

Yeah dude! That's the one. Knew I would recognise it when I saw it

My internet has been down pretty much since I posted this thread so I have not had time to research any more. My problem being that I have a lot of great songs in my head but dont know the names. There's one that comes to mind now that always makes me imagine a heard of wild horses galloping and another that always reminds me of space.

The music in the Stanley Kubrik film 2001 A Space Odyssey is cool.

[KillerGremlin]

It's Tchaikovsky Tuesday...