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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Epic Classical Music: 10 More Dramatic Endings


Epic Classical Music: 10 More Dramatic Endings

As always, find some good speakers or headphones, crank that volume as much as you can without disturbing your neighbors, and enjoy the incredible music! It was really fun to revisit this idea several years and hundreds of thousands of views (?!) later (I never dreamed the first video would become so popular) This time around, I included some lesser known material and some stranger music. Nothing too crazy, but this one digs a little deeper. I discovered some fascinating stories researching these pieces, so I encourage you to go look up anything you're curious about on Wikipedia. Full pieces: Beethoven's 9th:    • Beethoven Symphony No 9 - Furtwängler...   Saint Saens's 3rd (Organ):    • Saint-Saëns - Symphony No 3 in C mino...   Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini:    • Video   Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky:    • Video   Nielsen's 4th (The Inextinguishable):    • Nielsen: 4. Sinfonie (»Das Unauslösch...   Mahler's 2nd (Resurrection):    • Video   Shostakovich's 7th (Leningrad):    • Video   Bruckner's 8th:    • Video   Mahler's 8th (Symphony of a Thousand):    • Mahler: Symphony No. 8 / Bernstein · ...   Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy:    • Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy / Salon...