Some great classical pieces out there. Most of which I don't know the names of
Here's a couple of ones I do know:
Rossini - William Tell overture (Lone Ranger theme)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3T8-aeOrbg&pp=ygUVd2lsbGlhbSB0ZWxsIG92ZXJ0dXJl
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3T8-aeOrbg&pp=ygUVd2lsbGlhbSB0ZWxsIG92ZXJ0dXJl)
Bizet - Carmen overture
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYhQoFxs4Y&pp=ygUPY2FybWVuIG92ZXJ0dXJl
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYhQoFxs4Y&pp=ygUPY2FybWVuIG92ZXJ0dXJl)
Lots of great film pieces out there too. None of which I can think of now.
Let's have yours........
Nothing beats this guy
Ennio Morricone!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Khachaturian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ETMtbcKrc
As an uplifting Western theme it's hard beat The Magnificent Seven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ)
This is one of the smoothest TV theme's - TAXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DL8SGEyhZE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DL8SGEyhZE)
Second Morricone, especially his collaborations with Sergio Leone.
More recently, M83's soundtrack for Oblivion. Movie itself is a decent enough sci-fi flick, but the soundtrack, along with Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise, really lift it. Movie would not have been anywhere near as enjoyable without the music.
Kind of like it's hard to imagine those Leone westerns without the Morricone soundtracks.
https://youtu.be/N3pzxm8o4v0 (https://youtu.be/N3pzxm8o4v0)
Not one on many list, but still a classic - Battlestar Galactica (1978) Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo)
John Williams too many to mention.
Massive TV Cartoon theme - The Inspector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8Th4O8VT4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8Th4O8VT4)
Last of the Mohicans.
Sleeping in Light, from the last episode of Babylon 5. Some of the most poignant music I've ever heard in a TV show.
J Michael Straczynski, when asking for music to go with the closing scene, said to the composer Christopher Franke, "break my heart." I think he succeeded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znNciln7qwY
From Star Trek, some of my favourites:
The Motion Picture, later adapted into the Next Generation theme, but I preferred this original version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCH-IInes0
Klingons fighting V'Ger, this would later be the Klingon theme throughout the various Trek franchises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG3N51MEjM
II The Wrath of Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wacpO11mWA8
The music during the battle in the Nebula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8O_C7T5H_s
First Contact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXrRFjcqUys
Quote from: gallsman on June 28, 2023, 06:54:24 AM
Last of the Mohicans.
great shout. Can't remember much of the specifics, but the score is so moving in that movie.
Dances with wolves another one
Have a record with London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Star wars. I think it's this one
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-London-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B000Q19C20 (https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-London-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B000Q19C20)
The Flower Duet. Used in a very old British Airways ad.
https://youtu.be/C1ZL5AxmK_A
Also, not sure if it counts, but Tenet by Ludwig Goransson
More orchestral than classical technically but Penguin Cafe Orchestra are / were supeb. On the go from the 70s but first came to my attention watching a movie called Malcolm in the 90s I think
Music for a found harmonium.
https://youtu.be/QQHfmiZBisg
Telephone & rubber band
https://youtu.be/RWZ4pve5Mkc
Loads of others
The Lucid by Conor Walsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqx8yKdJiEo
Used in this Jack Charlton tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syel7l7RzTI
Doomed to live by Mokadelic from Gomorrah is a beaut
https://youtu.be/Hl5F9AFXQ-M
Wouldn't know many of the less known ones but some of my favourites would be the below:
Beethoven - Fur Elise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfF0zHeU3Zs
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar (Film) Score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVtMYqUAyw
Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free (Gladiator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOZEiHLuVU
Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pbSjxcZb4
Pachelbel - Canon in D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80
Bit of an odd one but its a score in a video game - Elder Scrolls V. Listen to it in the background most days when I WFH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkcwy-iWt8
More operatic that classical but 'Vide Cor Meum' used in the film Hannibal. Written by an Irish man (Patrick Cassidy) i believe and anything of 'The Mission' soundtrack,
The Jonny Greenwood score for There Will Be Blood was amazing, didn't win the Oscar as the score has to be 100% original and he used a brief sample on one of the compositions, harsh
Philip Glass is well worth looking into and in terms of more recent artists Bill Laurance
This one sends a tingle down my spine
Morricone - Malena
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHNr2tGEaU
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHNr2tGEaU)
Deborah's Theme a great piece too
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuyYc0gINbU&pp=ygUZbW9ycmljb25lIGRlYm9yYWgncyB0aGVtZQ%3D%3D
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuyYc0gINbU&pp=ygUZbW9ycmljb25lIGRlYm9yYWgncyB0aGVtZQ%3D%3D)
Quote from: bennydorano on June 28, 2023, 08:22:40 AM
More orchestral than classical technically but Penguin Cafe Orchestra are / were supeb. On the go from the 70s but first came to my attention watching a movie called Malcolm in the 90s I think
Music for a found harmonium.
https://youtu.be/QQHfmiZBisg
Telephone & rubber band
https://youtu.be/RWZ4pve5Mkc
Loads of others
Music for a found harmonium - Napoleon Dynamite
Quote from: Orior on June 28, 2023, 03:23:42 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on June 28, 2023, 08:22:40 AM
More orchestral than classical technically but Penguin Cafe Orchestra are / were supeb. On the go from the 70s but first came to my attention watching a movie called Malcolm in the 90s I think
Music for a found harmonium.
https://youtu.be/QQHfmiZBisg
Telephone & rubber band
https://youtu.be/RWZ4pve5Mkc
Loads of others
Music for a found harmonium - Napoleon Dynamite
Might very well have been, but it was in Malcolm first! 1986 Google has informed me. Simon Jeffes of PCO seemed to be the principal music composer on the movie. A very good film from what I remember.
Marx Borthers in Animal Crackers
https://youtu.be/Zz1xUbJprCw
Matt Damon in Gerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4RmJaP683A
Truman Show ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWs5fsyID8
Somewhere in Time ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsEmAR6Bj0
Deer Hunter bar scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npw_3yxIt6I
This is England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGm62CYtpY
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on June 28, 2023, 07:25:17 AM
From Star Trek, some of my favourites:
The Motion Picture, later adapted into the Next Generation theme, but I preferred this original version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCH-IInes0
Klingons fighting V'Ger, this would later be the Klingon theme throughout the various Trek franchises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG3N51MEjM
II The Wrath of Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wacpO11mWA8
The music during the battle in the Nebula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8O_C7T5H_s
First Contact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXrRFjcqUys
Never liked the Motion Picture/NG theme.
Khan movie, I loved, as well as the other 80s ones. The music at the end of Undiscovered Country, where they show the autographs being written, was very emotional.
Surprised no one's mentioned Scorcese's films yet.
Especially Goodfellas.
The Harry Nillson song over Henry's big drug deal day when he's trying to evade the helicopter. Or the Coda from Layla as the bodies are discovered after Robert DeNiro's Jimmy Conway had whacked everyone who helped him with the big JFK robbery.
Quote from: bennydorano on June 28, 2023, 08:22:40 AM
More orchestral than classical technically but Penguin Cafe Orchestra are / were supeb. On the go from the 70s but first came to my attention watching a movie called Malcolm in the 90s I think
Music for a found harmonium.
https://youtu.be/QQHfmiZBisg
Telephone & rubber band
https://youtu.be/RWZ4pve5Mkc
Loads of others
great call
The bbc production of Versailles
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcF5z1qHf_s
One I've linked onto music threads many times over the years. Discovered randomly on an Ibiza Chill out album, superb.
The English Garden by Henry Preece
https://youtu.be/XAf0-TvcXLc
Air's Ce Matin La is a similar dreamy piece
https://youtu.be/tRoBfcPxJdA
Morricone again. Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission is an incredible piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9ko
John Barry has done some great pieces.
You Only Live Twice and The Wedding music are beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1v-xAhSPio
Quote from: Look-Up! on June 29, 2023, 11:30:01 AM
Morricone again. Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission is an incredible piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9ko
John Barry has done some great pieces.
You Only Live Twice and The Wedding music are beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1v-xAhSPio
The man just was amazing
Here's another from a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5Xczethmw
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 29, 2023, 12:50:47 PM
Quote from: Look-Up! on June 29, 2023, 11:30:01 AM
Morricone again. Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission is an incredible piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9ko
John Barry has done some great pieces.
You Only Live Twice and The Wedding music are beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1v-xAhSPio
The man just was amazing
Here's another from a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5Xczethmw
Sorry just cant get past those bloody pan-pipes!
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 29, 2023, 12:50:47 PM
Quote from: Look-Up! on June 29, 2023, 11:30:01 AM
Morricone again. Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission is an incredible piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9ko
John Barry has done some great pieces.
You Only Live Twice and The Wedding music are beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1v-xAhSPio
The man just was amazing
Here's another from a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5Xczethmw
Brilliant. Probably the best composer.
But there are some great names. John Barry was terrific. Someone else mentioned Dances with Wolves. He also did Out of Africa and Born Free. Combined with the terrific backdrops, it makes for special films.
James Horner is another one. Really like the score on Legends of the Fall. He also did Field of Dreams, Braveheart, Titanic and many more.
Quote from: From the Bunker on June 28, 2023, 12:16:59 AM
Not one on many list, but still a classic - Battlestar Galactica (1978) Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo)
Loved that show and the music.
The remake wasn't anywhere near as good.
Hans Zimmer
John Williams
Howard Shore
James Horner
Thomas Newman
Ludwig Goransson
Fill your boots.
Don't know the name of the score but the scene in the shawshank redemption where Andy outs the music on while in the wardens office is class.
Gladiator has some good ones too
Quote from: tonto1888 on June 29, 2023, 04:42:47 PM
Don't know the name of the score but the scene in the shawshank redemption where Andy outs the music on while in the wardens office is class.
Gladiator has some good ones too
Ah yes , that's a great piece.
It's called Sull'aria from the marriage of figaro by Mozart
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hfe_1Fny-Q&pp=ygUec3VsbCdhcmlhIHNoYXdzaGFuayByZWRlbXB0aW9u
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hfe_1Fny-Q&pp=ygUec3VsbCdhcmlhIHNoYXdzaGFuayByZWRlbXB0aW9u)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs)
Largo al Factotum from Barber of Seville. Banger.
Mishima by Philip Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XMeY1RkWQ
Quote from: Puckoon on June 29, 2023, 06:03:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs)
Largo al Factotum from Barber of Seville. Banger.
This was in plenty of Tom and Jerry cartoons lol
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 29, 2023, 08:57:14 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on June 29, 2023, 06:03:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhlWgyjEQs)
Largo al Factotum from Barber of Seville. Banger.
This was in plenty of Tom and Jerry cartoons lol
Bugs Bunny and Mrs Doubtfire opening scene for sure. EDIT: I am also certain Mr W Woodpecker had a stab at it as well.
Apocalypse Now - 'Ride of the Valkyries'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ_zNUmr8fM
Quote from: armaghniac on June 30, 2023, 04:25:52 PM
Apocalypse Now - 'Ride of the Valkyries'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ_zNUmr8fM
The theme tune to accompany the arrival of the Armagh train the next day
Anyone remember The High Chaparral?
https://youtu.be/7sBfY9HKUss
Quote from: ziggy90 on July 06, 2023, 08:01:48 AM
Anyone remember The High Chaparral?
https://youtu.be/7sBfY9HKUss
I do indeed. It's about some oul boyo whose wife died and he got himself a sexy looking young mexican chick. Unfortunately her brother tagged along too. Things were all finde until one day a camera crew arrived. Then it was just one drama after another. The show was the highlight of my week.
:D "Manolito"!!
The theme tune was class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9c_MleWYY&list=PLE0FB143C2E02B665&index=2&pp=iAQB8AUB
Shawshank Redemption
Magnificent seven them by Bernstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHxqcwRwt80
Hawaii Five-O Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHxqcwRwt80
Still unsurpassed, the original opening and closing theme - written by Lalo Schifrin
Mission Impossible tv series 1966 -73
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alss3sDJdg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alss3sDJdg)
Apparently this was featured in The Ladykillers (never seen it though)
Boccherini's 'Minuet'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkazUC_JEmQ&pp=ygUdbWludWV0IGwgYm9jY2hlcmluaSBvcmNoZXN0cmE%3D
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkazUC_JEmQ&pp=ygUdbWludWV0IGwgYm9jY2hlcmluaSBvcmNoZXN0cmE%3D)
Great piece. Never knew the name of it until today
Heard this one this morning. Never knew the name , but heard it countless times .....but can't work out where.
Great for lowering the old blood pressure
Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6AIys8&pp=ygUtbWFzY2FnbmkgaW50ZXJtZXp6byBmcm9tIGNhdmFsbGVyaWEgcnVzdGljYW5h
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6AIys8&pp=ygUtbWFzY2FnbmkgaW50ZXJtZXp6byBmcm9tIGNhdmFsbGVyaWEgcnVzdGljYW5h)
Edit: was used in Raging Bull and The Godfather part III
More of a big band orchestra , rather than a proper "whatever you call it' orchestra
You might know this one........
James Last - Jägerlatein
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RloxDUecqk&pp=ygUWamFtZXMgbGFzdCBqYWdlcmxhdGVpbg%3D%3D
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RloxDUecqk&pp=ygUWamFtZXMgbGFzdCBqYWdlcmxhdGVpbg%3D%3D)
Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld (Can Can)
Not quite Bad Manners , but near enough ;D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDEF-7U0bgM&pp=ygUrb3JwaGV1cyBpbiB0aGUgdW5kZXJ3b3JsZCBjYW4gY2FuIG9yY2hlc3RyYQ%3D%3D (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDEF-7U0bgM&pp=ygUrb3JwaGV1cyBpbiB0aGUgdW5kZXJ3b3JsZCBjYW4gY2FuIG9yY2hlc3RyYQ%3D%3D)
https://youtu.be/xs3BXVTF7mw&t=4223s
Quote from: armaghniac on June 27, 2023, 11:33:35 PMAdagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Khachaturian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ETMtbcKrc
outstanding
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
beautiful
Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L.75: III. Clair de lune
just dream
This is a banger
Delibes: Lakmé - Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet), Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A
It was used in a British Airways ad back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVi6GgQBkwE
Quote from: seafoid on December 21, 2023, 01:40:19 PMThis is a banger
Delibes: Lakmé - Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet), Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A
It was used in a British Airways ad back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVi6GgQBkwE
beautiful, have that one on my playlist to
Quote from: Knock Yer Mucker In on December 21, 2023, 01:49:42 PMQuote from: seafoid on December 21, 2023, 01:40:19 PMThis is a banger
Delibes: Lakmé - Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet), Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A
It was used in a British Airways ad back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVi6GgQBkwE
beautiful, have that one on my playlist to
Indeed. Used to great effect in The Hunger film too.
Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fg8-VWNo0
Philip Glass Closing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLfXVBMDaA
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6Mzvh3XCc
Some youtube comments are fascinating eg
@stuartmcdonald2974
3 years ago
"My daughter suffered a massive heart attack when she was two weeks old. She spent 6 weeks in ICU hooked up to machines. The doctors said she would die but she lived, the doctors don't really know why. I played this tune over and over in her room in the ICU. Thank you Arvo Part. Thank you everyone and everything, I love you. Especially those who know what this music does. It is a blessing. Peace."
Avro is simple, but can be deeply moving to the ear.
Watched Trading Places the other night , and can't get this tune out of my head.
Such a good movie, it's been years since I seen it
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro overture
Quote from: AustinPowers on December 28, 2023, 05:28:51 PMWatched Trading Places the other night , and can't get this tune out of my head.
Such a good movie, it's been years since I seen it
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro overture
Not the scene that most fellas can't get out of their head!
Allahu Akbar - Ave Maria - Tania Kassis live at l'Olympia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCl0fCF5up8
Quote from: Orior on June 28, 2023, 03:46:43 PMMarx Borthers in Animal Crackers
https://youtu.be/Zz1xUbJprCw
Matt Damon in Gerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4RmJaP683A
Truman Show ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWs5fsyID8
Somewhere in Time ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsEmAR6Bj0
Deer Hunter bar scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npw_3yxIt6I
This is England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGm62CYtpY
That one was brilliant.
Remember seeing Truman show in cinema , and that just brought me right back there
𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐤 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢 • 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐍𝐨.𝟑, 𝐎𝐩.𝟑𝟔 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟔)
You'll have heard clips in AUSCHWITZ documentries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DJF1_vwQA
Don't think Ravel's Boléro got a mention yet, used to good effect in 10 with the added bonus of Bo Derek in her heyday.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 28, 2023, 06:42:06 PMQuote from: AustinPowers on December 28, 2023, 05:28:51 PMWatched Trading Places the other night , and can't get this tune out of my head.
Such a good movie, it's been years since I seen it
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro overture
Not the scene that most fellas can't get out of their head!
What scene are you referring to? ;D
The two big fellas in the jail scene always cracked me up
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KZF2YAAbtc4&pp=ygUYVHJhZGluZyBwbGFjZXMgY2VsbCB5ZWFo
Karl Jenkins - Benedictus
(From The Armed Man, A Mass For Peace)
Great piece
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 27, 2023, 10:55:26 PMNothing beats this guy
Ennio Morricone!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
Morricone is a genius.
My favourite is Jill's theme from Once Upon a Time in the West
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CdL__zuZvpA&pp=ygUqamlsbCdzIHRoZW1lIG9uY2UgdXBvbiBhIHRpbWUgaW4gdGhlIHdlc3Qg