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I've got nothing else, so you may as well have the classical music rec post I made yesterday!
I really like classical music, but I haven't listened to a whole lot in recent years. However, because there's a classical station in Saints Row, I've spent a lot of time listening to that (because most of the other stuff doesn't grab me, apart from the electronic stuff, and the 80s/90s station).
So I have been listening to some of my CDs, and I thought I would throw together a rec post! I think it's all likely stuff people have heard a thousand times before, but eh. Maybe not?
(IDK if it will be the same for you, but most of this playlist really hits me for giving me the shivers).
These are in no particular order, btw.
Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven (if you've ever seen Hellsing, you might recognise this off the soundtrack)
William Tell Overture (Finale) - Rossini (bonus in that this is a performance by the Halle Orchestra, and they're from Manchester, which is near me). (You may know this as the Lone Ranger music, or you might have heard it in Brassed Off).
Infernal Gallop (from Orpheus in the Underworld) - Offenbach (you WILL know this from Lemmings if you ever played it. Also it's the Can Can music. And probably a hundred and one other things. This version isn't the fastest I've ever heard it played)
The Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss II (you may have heard this in 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss (no relation) (also heard in 2001 - the bit with the monolith. But also everything that's ever parodied it, and also every programme about space, ever)
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner (you may recognise this from Apocalypse Now, or, infamously, a Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)
Clair de Lune - Debussy
L'Apres-Midi d'un Faun - Debussy
Mars, The Bringer of War - Holst (all of the Planets Suite is A+. I mean, I'm biased, but the whole thing is worth a listen at least once)
Uranus, The Magician - Holst (well, I couldn't not link my ruling planet, could I? ;) )
The Dance of the Knights (from Romeo and Juliet) - Prokofiev (you may know this is as the music from The Apprentice trailers (in the UK, anyway) )
Agnus Dei - Barber (also known as the adagio for strings. I reckon this is what angels sing. This and the track below)
Miserere Mei, Deus - Allegri
Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Brahms
Polovtsian Dances - Borodin (you may recognise part of this as the basis for a song called Strangers in Paradise)
St John's Night on Bare Mountain - Mussorgsky (this is LEGIT one of my most favourite pieces of music ever. You probably heard it in Fantasia)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (you probably also heard this in Fantasia)
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens (best known as being the theme tune for Jonathan Creek, maybe)
The Aquarium - Saint-Saens
In The Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt) - Grieg (best known in the UK as the music from the Alton Towers ads. Also adverts for trolls way back in the early nineties...)
Humoresque - Dvorak
Va Pensiero - Verdi (also known as The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
Nessun Dorma - Puccini (I chose Paul Potts because I can't stand Pavarotti. Also I used to hate this many moons ago, but I don't now. Anyway. THIS VIDEO HAS JAPANESE SUBTITLES!)
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - Mendelssohn
The Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov (as played on flute by James Galway)
Rodeo - Aaron Copland (this is a full 20 minute suite)
Rondo alla Turca - Mozart (you may well have heard this in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure which is, of course, the best version of this track ever. I did try to find a video to link to, but alas, it was not to be :( )
This isn't everything I like, but we'd be here forever if it were. So I hope you enjoy these, and please let me know if any links are broken or wrong!