Identifying music - thread - Classical Music Forums

Daniel · #1 (**permalink**) Dec-08-2006, 00:24

Hello all,

since there are spreading so many new threads with single posts for naming music, this thread is being started, so please post here your questions and answers!

Warning: Please pay attention on the links you post and copyright!

Kind regards,
Daniel

kevscontent · #2 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 16:49

I have been looking for a piece of music for a very long time now which i walways hear in films and tv programs but have no idea who composed it or what it is called.

I can decscribe it as a heavy piece, sounding very Russian choir like, its in the Omen film and usually signifys a scary or 'edge of your seat moment'.

PLEASE PLEASE could someone help me, i have download hundreds of tracks to find it but alas, no success.

Topaz · #3 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 17:50

Verdi: Messa Da Requiem: Dies Irae

This is the famous second movement which lasts only about 2 minutes, is choral with loud drums and orchestral. Quite scary. Or is what you are looking for a longer piece? What's the nearest equivalent piece among others you know?

Topaz

kevscontent · #4 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 17:57

Thanks, i am just gonna download it and see if its the piece i am after. Icant think of any other piece which is anything like it, which is why i guess it gets used so much in different films and programs.

linz · #5 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 18:07

It's probably Mussorgsky's 'Night on Bald Mountain', He wrote a chorus version of that work, and I saw 'Omen' and believe it was in it.

kevscontent · #6 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 18:10

Thanks Linz , i shall give that one a try aswell.

Topaz · #7 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 18:53

I thought you said it contains a choir. Is that right?

kevscontent · #8 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 18:56

Ok chaps, no luck on either of those pieces you have suggested. Its a very heavy piece and i could only describe it as sounding like a russian choir and very loud and you could imagine being in a big cathedral listeninh to it.

kevscontent · #9 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 19:03

It sounds like a choir, very deep voices, like i say it sounds russian type but not actually russian words.

Topaz · #10 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 19:11

Is it fast or slow, how long does it last, is the choir or the orchestra the dominant sound?

kevscontent · #11 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 19:16

Its fairly slow in places, you only normally hear it for short times (maybe 20 or 30 seconds) the choir is very dominating. this is all from memory and i am deperatley trying to remember an exact program/film where it is used.

Topaz · #12 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 19:33

if it's in The Omen try the samples:

http://www.amazon.com/Omen-Original-.../dp/B0000014RT

Celloman · #13 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 19:34

I think I got it! It's probably Tschaikowsky's 1812 overture. Starts with a big choir, is about 16 minutes long, and has a earth-shaking coda.

kevscontent · #14 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 20:47

No luck i'm afraid peeps, it really bugs me every time i hear it coz its such a moving piece of music but i never seem so be able to track it.

kevscontent · #15 (**permalink**) Dec-10-2006, 21:24

I have it !!!!!!!!!, its [flash=200,200]Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna[/flash], or to be precise its the version done by the russian red army choir !!. thanks for all your help.