filmmusic 1,836 Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Since this thread was resurrected, i thought to put here Barber's Music for a Scene from Selley, that i was just listening and was mentioned earlier..An exquisite magical piece, that seems that it could be written for a Star Trek movie or another epic sci-fi.. (I hear echoes of Goldsmith and Horner - listen especially to 4.24 and on)It starts slowly with repeated patterns climaxing to 3.19 (from there and on it's my favourite part).If only sci-fi of today had such highly crafted music!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_0vzg8sFg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayazid 0 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Until now have been mentioned only composers from late romantic to modern period but personally I find already Mendelssohn's Hebrides from 1834 surprisingly fresh and evocative given how old it is and that Mendelssohn was a rather conservative composer (his early music is pretty Mozartean). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanner251 17 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Wagnerian Opera is the epitome of all classical music that evokes filmic fantasy. There are none higher.What about Strauss? There are parts in Elektra that seem to be scored like a film.Strauss is fantastic too... But IMHO, he's no Wagner.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Wagnerian Opera is the epitome of all classical music that evokes filmic fantasy. There are none higher.What about Strauss? There are parts in Elektra that seem to be scored like a film.Strauss is fantastic too... But IMHO, he's no Wagner....Quite the contrary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanner251 17 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Wagnerian Opera is the epitome of all classical music that evokes filmic fantasy. There are none higher.What about Strauss? There are parts in Elektra that seem to be scored like a film.Strauss is fantastic too... But IMHO, he's no Wagner....Quite the contrary.That was sufficiently ambiguous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Wagnerian Opera is the epitome of all classical music that evokes filmic fantasy. There are none higher.What about Strauss? There are parts in Elektra that seem to be scored like a film.Strauss is fantastic too... But IMHO, he's no Wagner....Quite the contrary.That was sufficiently ambiguous...Wagner is fantastic too...but IMHO, he's no Strauss :-)Of course Strauss owes a lot to Wagner, but harmonically as well as to orchestration, Strauss is much more refined than Wagner.Anyway, both have their own merits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShowUStheHOOK 8 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanner251 17 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Wagner is fantastic too...but IMHO, he's no Strauss :-)Of course Strauss owes a lot to Wagner, but harmonically as well as to orchestration, Strauss is much more refined than Wagner.Anyway, both have their own merits.Definitely well-noted. Strauss surely IS much more musically refined than Wagner, but in the realm of filmic fantasy, I don't believe that Strauss can touch Wagner. Simply a difference of opinion I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 454 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 No one's mentioned Alan Hovaness' Mysterious Mountain? Sublime classical writing that feels like a suite of film music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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