Epic Classical Music: Top 10 Most Dramatic Endings

Find some good speakers or some headphones, crank the volume as much as possible without disturbing other people, sit back, relax, and enjoy my selections for the Top 10 Most Dramatic Endings of Classical Music.

Sorry this video is blocked in Germany! :(

Links to videos:
- Full 1812 Overture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOGl_OWOqg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
- Pines of the Appian Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMeXzqTfNcY
- The Firebird from Fantasia 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWq17CT6Cs
- Full Pictures at an Exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_dhneJyD48&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
- Full Lord of the Rings Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorOng9qUOo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
- Full Shostakovich's 5th Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJHj6PWQ-Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
- Full In the Hall of the Mountain King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg
- Full Sibelius's 2nd Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkRaimundo#grid/user/9E22A73779BB14B8 (first 6 videos)
- All of The Planets: http://www.youtube.com/user/recordholdings#grid/user/3337112F29BC150D
- Full Mahler's 3rd Symphony: http://www.youtube.com/user/Tokkemon#p/c/2A364682FBA9417C/0/wTblvgf9_Yo

Pieces turned down because I didn't think they were dramatic enough:
- Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony
- Bruckner's 4th Symphony
- Symphony Fantastique (Berlioz)
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony
- Dvorak's 7th Symphony
- Orpheus in the Underworld (Can Can) (Offenbach)
- Organ Symphony (Saint-Saëns)
- Rhenish Symphony (Schumann)
- Billy the Kid (Copland)

Pieces turned down because they were by the same composer:
- Mahler's 8th Symphony
- Mahler's 2nd Symphony
- Finlandia (Sibelius)
- The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Holst)
- Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)
- Shostakovich's 7th Symphony

Pieces turned down because they weren't really an "ending":
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Sunrise (Strauss)
- Fanfare for the Common Man (Copland)
- O Fortuna (Orff)

Enjoy!

Be happy 8-D

Category:

Music

Tags:

• epic
• classical
• music
• dramatic
• ending
• finale
• glorious
• Tchaikovsky
• Respighi
• Stravinsky
• Mussorgsky
• Shostakovich
• Grieg
• Sibelius
• Holst
• Mahler

[lewars1912]

6:45 The main theme of this seems to have been based on the chorale coda of the 1st movement of Bruckner's 6th Symphony.

[sponge917]

@lewars1912 Interesting. But isn't all music inspired by other music? Unintentional musical quotation is quite common in all kinds of music. Lots of the comments on Pandora are about how a song is "stolen" or "copied" - I think it's silly. Say who inspired a piece you made, but unless you LITERALLY copied parts it's still your music. If it's too derivative it sucks anyway.

If you're interested in this, check out the video series "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson.

[TheDaveBloom]

Where the hell is Scriabin's Promethius: Poem of Fire?

[sponge917]

@TheDaveBloom I have to admit, if I were to remake this I would probably swap out de meij for scriabin... but personally I prefer the poem of ecstasy :)

[JayJokesAlot]

WHWERES REQIUEM FOR A DREAM

[sponge917]

@JayJokesAlot lol

once again... this is classical music. Soundtracks don't count (requiem for a dream, star wars, ben hur, etc). Most of these pieces were written as standalone pieces, except for the firebird (a ballet) and In the Hall of the Mountain King (a play - not a broadway musical)

[lewars1912]

@Lovisa116 I hope the police manage to find out where you're living. (:o)

[lewars1912]

Thanks for putting these pieces together. Interesting.

[lewars1912]

08:32 (:o( There is no proof whatsoever for these "quotes." This political take on a lot of Shostakovich's music, which has been done ad nauseam, has never ever washed with me. It's very politically convenient, especially with a lot of Western commentators, but that doesn't make it true. I might add that Shostakovich's music would be nowhere near as popular if listeners were unaware of the times and place in which he lived. People should take Volkov's book "Testimony" with a pinch of salt.

[TheDaveBloom]

@TheDaveBloom Also Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

[HXCDropDead]

@JayJokesAlot All over youtube. Now plz gtfo

[OisirM]

Personally, I think the most powerful ending in classical music, bar none, is Shotakovich's 7th. But, well, Shostakovich really knew how to close the deal. There's at least 5 of his symphonies which could compete for that honor.

Kudos to you for choosing Sibelius' 2nd. It amazes me how often people overlook the power of his pieces.