Thread: Most Powerful, Epic, Angry, Intense Classical Recommendations

I am looking for symphonies and composers that can sound like this: intense, loud instrumentals, fast pace, intense choir singing, and very angry sounding:

Examples of things I am looking for.

Can't Find Title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GT59zmF_Oo (Starts at [1:40])

Can't Find The Title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcD_VgQjsT8 (Song Starts at [0:37])

O Fortuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdIpFBGENQ

Any suggestions (If you could find the names of the ones I cannot find also, I would really appreciate it)

Thanks ahead of time!

Anything by Mozart is angry, pissed off music with a hard edge and huge, aggressive sound.

Check out Eine kleine Nactmusik. That means " a little night music" and it really is music of the night. Like a forboding Gothic cathedral lit by the evil light of a blood-red moon.

Crank this and let your fantasies of death and distruction take flight.

Well, there may be a deluge of modern classical that would be similar to those you posted. I can mention film composers such as Elfman, Silvestri, Zimmer, Poledouris and Herrmann--all of whom have composed music very similar to what you are looking for.

I keep thinking of new such suggestions every time they have been requested, and now I believe I can honestly say: I am out!

Modest Mussorgsky - Night on The Bare Mountain

Beethoven - Egmont Overture and, of course, fifth symphony.

Heandel's Sarabende

Presto from Vivaldi's Summer.

Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
Verdi - Requiem
Janacek - Glagothic Mass

Originally Posted by Tapkaara

Anything by Mozart is angry, pissed off music with a hard edge and huge, aggressive sound.

Check out Eine kleine Nactmusik. That means " a little night music" and it really is music of the night. Like a forboding Gothic cathedral lit by the evil light of a blood-red moon.

Crank this and let your fantasies of death and distruction take flight.

um... yeah...

Sibelius' tone poem "Tapiola" is really amazing. Check it out.

Originally Posted by World Violist

um... yeah...

By the way, also check out Carnival of the Animals by that famous musical sado-masochist Camille Saint-Saens. Though male, he was obsessed with being female, hence he gave himself the name Camille. (Sort of a Ed Gein figure in music, wouldn't you say?) Anyway, this music is no carnival...it's more of a freakshow of crushing tone clusters and savage rhythms. Trust me, when I say animals, I mean ANIMALS...the bloodthirsty kind.

So, imagine a musical freak-carnival of werwolfs and vultures...bats and tapeworms...where human flesh is eaten with sinister glissandi and horrifc, portent-laden pedal points.

This music should be in ANY metalhead's collection. Listen to it and I DARE you not to become enraged, depressed and angst-ridden.

Originally Posted by Tapkaara

Anything by Mozart is angry, pissed off music with a hard edge and huge, aggressive sound.

Check out Eine kleine Nactmusik. That means " a little night music" and it really is music of the night. Like a forboding Gothic cathedral lit by the evil light of a blood-red moon.

Crank this and let your fantasies of death and distruction take flight.

Hahaha!

Originally Posted by Tapkaara

....enraged, depressed and angst-ridden.

Sounds like me every time I hear Canon in D.

Possibly the most profoundly angst-ridden, epic, God-fearing, Earth-shattering, monster is 'Rage Over a Lost Penny' by Beethoven. For tear-inducing, powerful, music also check out the first of Webern's 'Four Pieces' for violin and piano.

Originally Posted by Metalheadwholovesclasical

I am looking for symphonies and composers that can sound like this: intense, loud instrumentals, fast pace, intense choir singing, and very angry sounding:

Examples of things I am looking for.

Can't Find Title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GT59zmF_Oo (Starts at [1:40])

Can't Find The Title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcD_VgQjsT8 (Song Starts at [0:37])

O Fortuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdIpFBGENQ

Any suggestions (If you could find the names of the ones I cannot find also, I would really appreciate it)

Thanks ahead of time!

Mars, Bringer of War. Gustav Holst, Planets Suite.
2nd Movement- Scherzo from Bruckners 9th Symphony (Not often suggested!)
Last Movement from Mahlers 6th Symphony (Ok it's long but really dark)
O Fortuna from Carl Orffs Carmina Burana

Of course you need to crank yer stereo up to get the maximum from them!!!

some of these replies are....er....interesting.
i fear some of my comrades here would find macdowell's 'to a wild rose' way too blood-thirsty!!!

dj

Thank God you guys have a sense of humor...us classical people often take our favorite music a little too seriously!

Well I guess there's only a limited amount of DARK, DEPRESSIVE, LOUD, ANGRY sounding classical music around! maybe we should try and pursuade MHWLC to be more flexible!!:angry:

Listen to Classic FM's Smooth Classics at 6. I heard someone had a heart attack just listening to its ferocious content.

Barbaric stuff.