[Kayito-san]

I listen to a variety of extreme and progressive heavy metal, as well as some jazz here and there. (nothing hits the spot like Brubeck) But lately I've been looking into classical music, as a shift from my usual playlist tendencies.

So far I've found,

1. Beethoven's 7th and 9th
2. Paul Dukas' "L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorceror's Apprentice)"
3. Pehr Nordgren's Symphonies 3 & 5
4. Pettersson's Symphonies 8 & 10
5. Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14"
6. Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"

Following with the dark but dynamic themes, could anybody recommend any other classical pieces with some intensity to them?

 

[fjf]

From our friend Tyson:

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f9/cla...g-list-205590/

If you want intensity, go for full orchestra in the romantic zone.

 

[scytheavatar]

Some of the darkest, most dynamic, most intense, most headbanging classical music out there:

Anything by Richard Wagner, especially Tristan und Isolde and Der fliegende Holländer
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no 5 and 6; Romeo and Juilet Overture, Swan Lake
Schubert - Symphony no 8
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no 8, no 23; Violin Sonata no 9; Große Fuge
Mahler - Symphony no 2, 5, 6, 8 (I'll recommend you to check out 5 first)
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

 

[Hardertaskthinking]

- Glinka's Ruslan & Ludmilla overture (quite intense) --> if possible, look for the version performed by London Symphony Orchestra under Sie Georg Solti (reissued under the Decca Legends series "Romantic Russia")

- Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestral version)

- Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (orchestral version)

- Sibelius' Finlandia

- Dvorak's Symphony No.9 "From the New World"

 

[Cianyx]

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez performed by John Williams.


Guitary goodness

 

[Jubei]

Holst - The Planets and Mahler (I like Symphonies 2,5,9,10)

 

[agbassano]

The "apocalyptic" Verdi Requiem - it's glorious... If the Dies irae doesn't blow your mind (nearly literally) - I don't know what else will.

 

[Ham Sandwich]

Shostakovich symphonies are always good for some symphonic aggression.
I like the war flavored symphonies like 7 and 8 and 11 as well. But being symphonies they need slow movements as well so don't expect four movements of aggressive allegro. Symphonies need slow movements otherwise they're not symphonies.

 

[Lex2]

Beethoven's 9th, Second Movement (Molto Vivace) has always been for me the epitome of 19th century headbanging music and the precursor to heavy metal and rock.

 

[nealric]

Elgar's Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos
Chopin's Piano Etudes

You should also check out Apocalyptica if you haven't already. Metal played by Cellos.

 

[Fido2]

I second Tchaikovsky, also Rimsky-Korsokov and Franz Liszt(kinda dark, moody).

 

[Pltinum]

x2 Rite of Spring
x2 Unfinished from Schubert (8th) Love this symphony!

Maybe some Strauss (Elektra,...) or Alban Berg (String quartets, Wozzeck,..)

edit: x2 on Pictures at an Exhibition (love the Gnomus part!)

 

[Tyson]

Holst - The Planets (especially Mars, Bringer of War) and Orff - Carmina Burana.

 

[pekingduck]

Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 3 & 5

 

[loki993]

cant believe nobody has said it yet : Yngwie Malmsteen