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jimbunny:
Mahler.
Emily:
You can't go wrong with Holst's The Planets or Vivaldi's Four Seasons or anything Wagnerian in terms of sweeping mood-pieces.
Stravinksy's The Firebird is good along those lines, as I recall.
Personally I just bought Lucia Micarelli's Music from A Farther Room and LOVE it. A good mix of classical and more modern arrangements... If you've ever wanted to hear Bowie and Queen covers done on a violin, pick it up.
I used to have some kind of Classical Anthems anthology CD set that was chock-full of dark, percussive classical pieces, but damned if I can recall any of them.
ETA: Aaaaha. That's the one. Looks like Amazon is prepared to offer you a deal if you buy it alongside Thunderous Classics.
ETA2: Crap, now I can't get O Fortuna out of my head. It's like the Grandaddy of all emo songs. In Latin.
amok:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 28 Feb 2008, 09:40 ---Rachmaninoff. Absolutely excellent stuff.
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--- Quote ---I'm big on Brahms and Shostakovich.
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Well, fuck, there go my answers.
Specifically, Rach's 3rd piano concerto (and all of them, frankly, but zomg the third) and Shosta's 4th/5th/7th/8th symphonies are essential. Feel free to post ITT/pm me for uploads, I have all the Shosta symphonies on here and pretty much everything Rachmaninov-related ever recorded (altho the Rach stuff is in dodgy quality in places).
bbqrocks:
Rach is awesome. What exactly are the different sub'genres' of classical type music? Like baroque, classical, romantic etc etc.
sean:
I highly recommend you check out Chopin and Debussy, or anyone else in the Romantic period. The Romantics are where it's at.
I also second the Stravinsky recommendation. The Firebird is amazing.
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