I’ve been listening to a lot of instrumental music this past week. It’s one of those musical genre phases I go through. Sometimes I listen to a lot of country, then maybe move onto Randy Newman etc etc.
So I have been listening to some very cool instrumental and classical music and want to know if you like listening to instrumental/classical music and what are some of your favourite tracks.
I love “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from Fantasia. It’s a brilliant piece of music.
The Lord of the Rings Suite - Howard Shore
Piano Concerto No. 1 - Tchaikovsky
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
Lifes Incredible Again and The Incredits - Michael Giacchino
Main Themes for lots of movies - John Williams
After Midnight - Danny Elfman for Chicago
The Empire State Building - King Kong - James Newton Howard
King Kong Theatre March - Max Steiner
The Winner Is - Michael Danna/DeVotcKa - Little Miss Sunshine
The Scare Floor - Monsters Inc - Randy Newman
Blues in the Night - Ocean’s 11 - Quincy Jones and Soul Bossa Nova
Jack Sparrow, Dinner is Served, The Kraken, Davy Jones - Hans Zimmer - POTC2
Underwater March, He’s a Pirate - Klaus Badelt - POTC
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Straus - 2001: A Space Odyssey
They are pretty much my all time favourites. THe reason I want to know what you like is so I can try new songs and possibly expand my collection.
Well, when it comes to instrumental music, I like
Every track in The Incredibles’s score,
"He’s a Pirate’ from the Pirates movie,
Beethoven’s 9th symphony
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker
And that is all I can think of right now. I shall add somemore when they come to me.
Ahh Instrumentals, my favorite music genre, seein I’m a musician an all it’s pretty predictable.
Off the top of my head: Pixar related
Incredits
Scare Floor Theme
Others
Round the Globe-Nappy Roots
The Way you Move-Outkast
Touch the Sky-Kanye West
King Theme-Tekken 3 Soundtrack
Law Theme-Tekken 3 Soundtrack
Eddy Theme-Tekken 3 Soundtrack
Why you wanna-TI
Impossible-Kanye West
Seein JNH in bawpcwpn’s list reminded me of his beautiful score for Peter Pan - particularly “Flying” which is now Disney’s theme for The Year of a Million Dreams (which I’m sure they paid Universal through the nose for - you think they’d pick one of their own songs).
Every single track on the The Incredibles soundtrack. At first I didn’t like a few tracks, particularly ‘Mr. Huph Will See You Now’, but over time every single one of them grew on me. My favourites are “Kronos Unveiled” and “Marital Rescue”. But I love all of them.
I used to be crazy over the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack by Danny Elfman.
John Williams’ Star Wars tracks are classics.
I would love to get my hands on the Toy Story soundtrack but can’t seem to find it. I seriously used to listen to the odd ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ song that was on my computer, several times a day for about a month.
I know this is a bit weird, but I also love Koji Kondo’s Mario Bros. theme played by the Japanese Symphony Orchestra, from the Smashing… Live! album. If anyone’s interested I can share it with them. It’s got other Nintendo themes played, too. =)
Good for you! Classical music is the best music we have… jazz and film scores following right after. I cannot list all my favourite pieces, but I’ll name a few to give you an idea of what I listen to:
Dvorak - Symphony #9
Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture (the first few chords are so simple, yet so magical!!)
Holst - The Planets
Bartok - Piano Bagatelles
Chopin - ‘Raindrop’ Prelude
Aaron Copland - Our Town (suite, but also the 1940 score)
Mozart - Requiem (heck, everything by him I like)
Brahms - Requiem
Stravinsky - Right of Spring
Khachaturian - Sabre Dance
Okay okay okay… I’m gonna stop there or I’ll just keep going…
[size=92]I like instrumental music too, mostly from movies. The two songs I’ve always taken a shine to, though, are McQueen & Sally and Goodbye from Cars. I also do rather like the Toy Story score too, though. And I find the Finding Nemo theme really touching.[/size]
Is anybody into classic film scores? Like Vertigo, Psycho, Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Our Town, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, North by Northwest?? Those beat John Williams anyday.
Truth be told, there are so many instrumental and classical pieces of musical art that capture my attention that I simply can’t name them all. Even a summarized compilation of a list of my top favorites would probably stretch around the moon twice…
However, and since I should probably name something, I will admit that anything by John Willaims, Alan Sylvestri, Michael Giacchino, and various other artists (both classical – such as Mozart, Bethoven, and Tchaichovsky – and modern) captures my attention.
Everybody needs to listen to classic film scores. Like… those from the 40s and 50s. They’re absolutely fabulous. I cannot listen how many scores I’ve listened to.
I love the Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events soundtrack. It was actually nominated in the Oscars-which should tell you that it’s good. It is good, with every track having that ‘feel’ to it. My favorite is ‘The Letter that Never Came’. It’s quite beautiful.
However,me might need to get a new copy because me bought it when I didn’t quite take care of CDs and let them get scratched…
Hehe, not everything that’s nominated for an Oscar is good, but with ASoUE, I will agree. I liked the score, and even though it wasn’t part of the film, I liked the theme to the ending credits, “Drive Away”.
Oh yes, Drive Away! That was the whole reason I bought the soundtrack-I played that track over and over again,and my mom kept asking the same question over and over again-‘Don’t you listen to anything else?!’ Nowadays I listen to it when I’m bored.
I cannot list all my favourite pieces, but I’ll name a few to give you an idea of what I listen to:
