The epic classical music thread

[Dredd]

Did I link this soundtrack yet? It's in my CD player now. Give it a chance....

I've used excerpts from this soundtrack in many, many D&D campaigns and can attest to its quality.

 

[krischan]

Les Preludes by Franz Liszt:

It's like Beethoven and Wagner in one. The finale is overwhelming!

 

[Kinkara]

I wasn't informed about this thread's existance. Here's my little grain of sand:

 

[krischan]

Wagner's ring cycle, with all scores:

Das Rheingold

Die Walküre

Siegfried

Götterdämmerung

A single sheet of the scores with up to 30 instruments covers just 10 seconds, for a set of operas that covers over 14 hours. That's about 5000 pages. What an enormous amount of work it must have been... and it's so grand! Well yeah, Wagner needed several decades to finish it.

Edit: New links.

 

[krischan]

If you ever feel sad about having lost a beloved, then hear this and let the music express your grief while you continue to get along with it. The loss of a beloved cannot be overcome though. Farewell Dad, you're dead for five years by now (he died on Nov 19th 2015, to be precise), but I'm still dreaming of you being alive!

 

[In The Name of Zod]

@krischan: That is a great piece. Here's another one I always want to listen afterwards for some inexplicable reason.

Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights

 

[krischan]

There's not much time left to make a posting that's appropriate for this day...

 

[krischan]

You blew it!

Spoiler

Spoiler

Not just his birthday. His 250th birthday!

 

[In The Name of Zod]

Oh come on, the guy was born in Germany. You can't expect the rest of us to pick up on that one.

 

[krischan]

Beethoven year 2020: Corona victim.

Here's my first Google hit on famous deaf people in general: https://www.ai-media.tv/famous-deaf-people-15-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-people-who-changed-the-world/

Completely ridiculous. Yes, I know a few of these, but all of them, totally all of them are nothing, NOTHING in comparison to Beethoven. None of them even begin to compare! Man, there's too many ignorant people over the ocean.

 

[krischan]

No matter what you might think about the end of Game of Thrones, the music was grand.

 

[krischan]

OK, the year of Beethoven's 250th birthday is over (and I send my eternal curses to all of you for not having made an appropriate posting), so here's the greatest non-Beethoven symphony:

Edit2 : Another new link.

 

[krischan]

(Ludwig van's 9th)

Look what I've got over 100 likes for on Youtube:

 

[Dredd]

Every damn time you bring up Beethoven, I'm reminded of this really fun bit from Doctor Who:

Edit: In case it's region-locked, search for "Doctor Who - Bootstrap Paradox" on Youtube.

 

[Gorny]

Guess I'll share one of mine:

 

[krischan]

Every damn time you bring up Beethoven, I'm reminded of this really fun bit from Doctor Who:

Hmm, I could travel back in time and become Krischan van Beethoven. My hair looks rather similar to his

 

[superdave]

If you ever do, I hope you have enough sense to drink the wine before it's too late.

 

[Gorny]

Hmm, I could travel back in time and become Krischan van Beethoven. My hair looks rather similar to his

Complete with ruffled collar and funny mustache.

 

[krischan]

If you ever do, I hope you have enough sense to drink the wine before it's too late.

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me. That would be a pity indeed.

 

[krischan]

Brahms, German Requiem:

"Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras.
Und alle Herrlichkeit des Menschen wie des Grases Blumen.
Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blume abgefallen."

"For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withers, and the flower thereof falleth away."