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If you should name some orchestral pieces either from classical music or film music that you associate with snow and a 'Christmassy' sound, what tracks would you recommend? So it doesn't matter if the respective movie doesn;t have anything to do with snow, as long as the orchestration does remind of it :blink: I thought of the ones below. Please add some more non-JW and more classical.

1) John Williams - Call of the Champions

2) John Williams - Home Alone - Main Title

3) John Williams - Home Alone - Duncan's Toystore

4) John Williams - Home Alone - Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas (orchestral version)

5) John Williams - Home Alone - Turtle Doves'

6) John Williams - Harry Potter - Harry's Wondrous World

7) John Williams - Harry Potter - Christmas at Hogwarts

8) John Williams - Harry Potter - Entry Into the Great Hall

9) John Williams - Harry Potter - A Change of Season

10) John Williams - Jurassic Park - A Tree For My Bed

11) Tschaikovsky - Suger Plum Fee

12) Michael Convertino - The Santa Claus - Fligh't

13) Michael Convertino - The Santa Claus - Not Over Any Oceans

14) Maybe some Gershwin Ouverture?

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Also from Harry Potter, the second half of "Platform 9 3/4 & Journey to Hogwarts", the part where they approach the castle on boats. One of JW's finest moments of the last 20 or so years.

"The Banquet" and "Farewell Neverland".

This:

http://www.last.fm/music/Christophe+Beck/_/Magic+Snow+Music+%28From+%22Amends%22%29

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"Sleigh Ride" from Taras Bulba (Franz Waxman)

"Snowplay" from Little Women (Thomas Newman)

"The Snowball Fight" from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams)

"Farewell Neverland" from Hook (Williams)

"Sleigh Ride" from The Devil and Daniel Webster (Bernard Herrmann)

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- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (especially the first and third movements)

- Ennio Morricone - The Thing (almost all cues)

- some compositions (film and non-film - classical music) that perfectly evoke the cold, lonely emptiness of space (e. g. Aliens Main Title, Neptune, the Mystic from The Planets etc.)

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I'm shocked no one's mentioned the following:

"Magic Snow Music" from Christophe Beck's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score

Utterly beautiful, even more so if one saw the episode it accompanied ("Amends").

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I'm shocked no one's mentioned the following:

"Magic Snow Music" from Christophe Beck's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score

Utterly beautiful, even more so if one saw the episode it accompanied ("Amends").

I did.

And yes, Batman Returns.

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I'm shocked no one's mentioned the following:

"Magic Snow Music" from Christophe Beck's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score

Utterly beautiful, even more so if one saw the episode it accompanied ("Amends").

I did.

Both beat me to it!

Listening to it now, in fact. A lovely cue indeed, and a great scene from a great episode.

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"Waltz of the Snowflakes" from Tschaikovsky's Nut Cracker is beautiful and not "Christmasy" at all.

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Well I threw that Prokofiev at you. Look into some Russian composers perhaps? Magic Flute Overture maybe?

The Prokofiev was a really nice suggestion :thumbup: I didn't know this piece was part of Lieutenant Kije.

What about "Sleigh Ride Over Manhattan" from Santa Claus The Movie, by Henry Mancini? :P

Thanks :)

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"Waltz of the Snowflakes" from Tschaikovsky's Nut Cracker is beautiful and not "Christmasy" at all.

You're kidding, right?

How about Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica. It's the best depiction of freezing wastes I've ever heard. I get chills ever time I hear it.

Delius "Sleigh Ride".

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