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Hey Er'Body! (anybody recognize the "phrase"?)

Can anyone suggest some really powerful classical pieces that really blow you away when turned up?  Of course there's the overture but more than just the raw sound.  The way the music hits you with certain melodic changes for example.  The kind of thing you feel like you've worked out after listening to.  The bigger the dynamic range the better...again of course right?  lol

Thanks in advance!

bbarten
dwette
555 posts
 

Anton Bruckner’s symphonies, especially, 4, 7, 8 & 9. Bruckner loved big, loud brass choirs. Barenboim’s performance of the 4th with the Chicago Symphony on DG is a good one. The CSO has a great brass section and Barenboim unleashes them on that recording. The vinyl reissue on DG’s The Original Source series improves substantially on the original release, but it may be out of print by now.

Mahler's 2nd is my favorite symphony. It has everything in it.

mashif
478 posts
 

+1 Mahler. Symphony 5, 7, 8 

Also check out Kabelac: Hamlet Improvisations for Large Orchestra 

 

dwette
555 posts
 

Mahler. Symphony 5, 7, 8

7 and 8 are not my favorites. 6 and 9 are much better. :)

sid-hoff-frenchman
67 posts
 

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5, Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending

mahler123
4,052 posts
 

Most Mahler Symphonies.  Some one has recommended the Eighth.  I would for the Second, the Ressurection.

 Shostakovich symphonies in particular 5 and 11

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