Always reminds me of some scary movies
http://youtu.be/ipzR9bhei_o

Katherine Jenkins?

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Katherine Jenkins?

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Too many!

If it's choral, then probably Orff's O Fortuna.

Otherwise anything from Holsts Planets suite.

Thus Spake Zaruthustra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

Always gets me going

Sibelius - Finlandia or 5th
Mozart's clarinet concerto in A

Cannon rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8

Plants, seasons, moonlight sonata, paganini caprice 17 & 19

Not sure if asturias leyenda counts as classical? Also most of the castellana suites?

griegs mountain king, paganinis 5th caprice, anything by malmsteen

oohh TOO much to list here...

But for just sheer emormity it has to be Berlioz Requiem.
However, I think that it HAS to be conducted by Sir Colin Davis and no other.

Its a BIG piece, it is moving.



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For more unusual music, I like this chaps music, its just brill and he is so good at it.
Nothing that special, just different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNJswfXKJ3s

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Elgar: Nimrod because it's just a beautiful piece of music, to me simultaneously combining sadness and hope.
And can't remember the name of it, but this

Brahms German Requiem

I prefer contemporary classical music personally.
Some tasters

Shaker Loops by John Adams is one of my favourites, an easy introduction and great to hear live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLwfDoaCsw
Vermont Counterpoint by Steve Reich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8fc-k9160
Rothko Chapel by Morton Feldman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxSt_w2ODaQ
Dream by John Cage is one of his more accessible works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UPlYnBFrI0
Mad Rush by Philip Glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vMpkIRAjo

The Platoon soundtrack is Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
For Choral work Arvo Part is worth a listen.

Not really into classical stuff but The Ecstacy Of Gold ticks the boxes, probably down to the good the bad and the ugly bit mainly for whipping the crowd up at the beginning of a Metallica show

One to upset the classical purists is Frank Zappa's G-spot tornado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDI5Ci_7YL4

Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor (it was the music for the empty-field scene of the original Rollerball IIRC).

No match after hearing the organist play it in Manchester Cathedral a good few years ago. Proper hairs-standing-up-on-back-of-neck stuff!

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arrival of the queen of sheba or adagio for strings ( platoon soundtrack)

Got to be Canon by Pachelbel. Sounds brilliant on any instrument

Always will be this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

but this is a very close second

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcWo1hKHu40

helps to clear away any problems..

Paul

Probably Dvorak From the New World Symphony in e minor.

Pictures at an Exhibition is good too, and Tchaikovsky writes a pretty good tune.

Arvo Part - De profundis

Bach Fugue in D is great, also 1812 overture and planet suite

I'm quite liking "Clair La Lune" off the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack

Also Ride of the Valkyries and one off Elite 2, can't remember which one but I can hear it in my head now