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#1 ·
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.

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O Fortuna


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

Thanks ahead of time!
 
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I am looking for symphonies and composers that can sound like this: intense, loud instrumentals, fast pace, intense choir singing, and very angry sounding ...
If you are looking for the connection between heavy metal and classical composers, then here it is : Bruckner : http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/09/pearlman/

A passage from the article: After McLean has pointed out that one of Bruckner's biggest fans was fellow Austrian Adolf Hitler, Pearlman elaborates. "We owe the creation of heavy metal to the Third Reich," he says, "because a lot of the Jewish composers who left Europe went on to compose for Hollywood horror films. They exposed kids to a Brucknerian vocabulary and it subsequently morphed into heavy metal."

But it seems that Bruckner is very odd/unique in "Classical" music. People who like Bruckner should try some other "Headbanging," Heavy Metal, or Death Metal music.

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
Herrmann is the composer for the movie Psycho. That Psycho music is very similar to Bruckner 9's Scherzo.
 
#162 · (Edited)
I am looking for symphonies and composers that can sound like this: intense, loud instrumentals, fast pace, intense choir singing, and very angry sounding:

here are some of my favorites that might catch your ear:

Beethoven string quartet no 14 in c sharp minor 7th movement

Shostakovich string quartet no 8 (he wrote this as a suicide note when forced to join ussr, close friend and family members had passed as well)

Giuseppe Tartini devils trill sonata (supposedly had a dream of the devil playing at his bed. he frantically tried to remember the piece and later said he would give up violin to hear it one last time)

Chopin funeral march

Schubert der doppelganger

Mahler Kindertotenlieder
 
#164 · (Edited)
The Ascension - Glenn Branca (1981) is your ticket. If you listen to it LOUD, good luck to you and all you hold dear. Better if you listen to it on a great sound system but if your best option is youtube, here you go:



On the vocal side of things, Diamanda Galas' self titled masterpiece, which is one of the most overwhelming, ferocious, angry, intense and harrowing albums ever made:



Her earlier album, Litanies of Satan isn't quite as profound or atmospheric, but for intensity and anger, can hardly be approached:

 
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You want to hear anger? Then listen to "Judas, mercator pessimus" (Judas, the worst possible merchant) from the "Sept Répons de Ténèbres" from Poulenc. I prefer the version with the choir of Radio France, because they are the most indignant about the betrayal of Judas ("Melius illi erat, Si natus non fuisset" - It would have been better for him, Had he never been born)
 
#166 ·
Hi All,

Yes a newbie but very interested in classical music of all sorts. I found this film soundtrack music last week then the next day I heard a piece of classical music play over the radio but missed the name and details of it and it sounded almost EXACTLY like this film's soundtrack music. So now I've been trying to hunt down the original piece. Hehehe, my brain is hurting from trying to find this ..... can anyone help?

(I apologise if this is a repeat of someone else's post, but this IS a huge site) and thank you in advance to anyone brainier than me to identify this one.

Here's the YT link for the music...

 
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