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Postby Bellmont » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:25 pm

I like fast paced, powerful, classical music...and was wondering if you could recommend some songs or composers?
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Postby navneeth » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:51 pm

Hi, Bellmont. Welcome to BBB. (I'll let the others answer the recommedation part ;) )
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Postby bignaf » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:34 pm

Welcome!

fast-paced and powerful pieces:

Beethoven: 5th symphony
Tchaikvsky: 1812 overture
Orff: Carmina Burana
Verdi:Triumphal March from Aida
Holst: The Planets (notably Mars)
Ravel: Bolero
Wagner: Ride of the Valrkyries
Puccini: Turandot act I
Rouse: Bump
Adams: Shaker loops

the only fast-paced powerful song I would recommend as a beginning is Erlkoenig by Schubert.

Enjoy exploring! :)

hopefully you'll come to enjoy less fast paced classical music pretty soon. :)
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Postby barfle » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:40 am

William Tell Overture
Poet and Peasant Overture
Just about any Sousa March
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Postby navneeth » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:50 am

How about Brahms' Hungarian Dances? I heard some of them the other day and most of them were famous tunes that have appeared in cartoons. So they are fast paced.
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Postby shostakovich » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:12 pm

Hi Bellmont.

A friend once showed me a record called Great Handel Choruses, with Ormandy, the Philadelphia, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

I said "I don't like choral, and I'm not too fond of Handel."

He said "You'll like THIS!"

He was right. Try to find it. You'll like it.

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Postby bignaf » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:36 pm

barfle wrote:William Tell Overture - of course!
Poet and Peasant Overture - never heard it (technically it's not classical :))
Just about any Sousa March same here :)
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Postby barfle » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:46 am

bignaf wrote:Poet and Peasant Overture - never heard it (technically it's not classical :))

Huh? :?:
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Postby bignaf » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:35 pm

it's from an operetta, which was pop music at the time. :) I also call some Mozart operas pop music. Josquin Vilanelles are definitely pop music.
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