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Title: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Retsof on March 03, 2011, 05:52:36 pm: You know that kind of music that just makes anything you happen to be doing at the moment epic? This is where it can be shared.
I'll start with a particular author that is a master of EWQL Symphonic Orchestra.
Adventure Land (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKKLngGEtA)
Conquest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLvsS6o0hJY&feature=related)

And, just to prove I'm a huge nerd. An orchestrated peice from Zelda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNRuevB76Xw)
Yes, this is an elaborate way of asking you guys to do the searching for me :p
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 03, 2011, 06:48:53 pm: Mars Bringer of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Sololop on March 03, 2011, 07:31:16 pm: Now, these are some epic tunes, right here.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Ghostavo on March 03, 2011, 08:41:14 pm: Craig Armstrong - Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhP6F-vxeZI)
30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMrlHHVx8A)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: redsniper on March 03, 2011, 08:42:01 pm: You are now aware that there are orchestral covers of of Queen songs. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4CIdLcQt4)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 03, 2011, 08:51:25 pm: Total Annihilation OST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-iag83kQc&feature=related)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: watsisname on March 03, 2011, 10:40:10 pm: Oh hell, I call upon LoTR.
The Bridge of Khazad Dum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIZvAe3RBg)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 03, 2011, 10:53:30 pm: Quote from: StarSlayer on March 03, 2011, 06:48:53 pm
Mars Bringer of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk)

This.

1000x this.

Also, from The Dark Knight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-XarUUxM0)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Rodo on March 03, 2011, 10:57:21 pm: Thread bookmarked, keep throwing nice pieces in please.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 03, 2011, 10:59:48 pm: Sergei Prokofiev - Battle on the Ice Alexander Nevsky OST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy84N_U5jw0)

Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2 for orchestra, Op. 64 ter: The Montagues and Capulets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RFq7cOVDF0)

Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSbxRiUgOo&feature=related)

Yoko Kanno - First Vision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtOcuUTfwU)

Yoko Kanno - Black Escaflowne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1clgyPLkUg)

Yoko Kanno - Epistle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACIPlG5TRFU)

Trevor Jones/Randy Edelman - Promontory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJVlFOU3JxU)

Hans Zimmer - Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URBrdHaQ5tU)

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy End Titles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0FwEmUycYI) (stretching it a bit but it's a nifty track and the orchestral bit kicks in about half way)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 03, 2011, 11:29:32 pm: Another from The Dark Knight. From about 3:00 to the end (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjwPy6Pp9M&feature=related).
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Flipside on March 04, 2011, 12:31:27 am: Vangelis - 1492 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHZ2eoOk-I
Patrick Doyle - Kissing in the Rain : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fcqHVkxqE
Lovers of Light - Afro Celt Sound System : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDs8ZwE2qY
Rise of Legends - Through the Bog (Reprive) - Duane Decker : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9v9KrSeJk

Few off the top of my head :)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 04, 2011, 12:45:52 am: Collection of stuff by Randy Edelman from the Gettysburg soundtrack.

Battle At Devil's Den (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXoH9strIlY)

Charging Up The Hill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XE_xYtgJ0A)

Battle of Little Roundtop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ije9lDHXWpw)

This is the best goddamn track in the movie. It's called Armistead Is Hit, but you should really see it... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmFMvm8WE-o)

..in the native environment, starting at about 0:45 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt2dSV8Bshs)

EDIT: Not sure about the epic, but Fife and Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNeGtqP7zw) was always one of my favorites.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuke on March 04, 2011, 12:58:36 am: Quote from: StarSlayer on March 03, 2011, 10:59:48 pm
Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSbxRiUgOo&feature=related)

win, though not as badass as the black metal version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoR8SpKpbQw).
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: T-LoW on March 04, 2011, 02:53:09 am: X-Ray Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rpx0VgpTLY&playnext=1&list=PL845AC360B928FDAD)

Immediate Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Jf6r6BU2A&playnext=1&list=PL43311AF77777A683)

Two steps from Hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em42XjJKSX8&playnext=1&list=PL8D14F2DA84317BBE)

EDIT:

btw this is the best Total Annihilation Track
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAJj9wzils&feature=related)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: blackhole on March 04, 2011, 08:05:04 am: Very loosely done in order of how much I like them.

Zack Hemsey - Mind Heist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJqicM6x84) (Inception)
E.S. Posthumus - Unstoppable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoaUYcwEpSw) (Sherlock Holmes)
Zack Hemsey - Empty Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usKSNrWNGVQ)
Rob Dougan - Chateau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYv4FR1M-wU) (The Matrix: Reloaded)
Mark Petrie - Polar Shift (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm7pxN0AG_Q)
Music Junkies - Conquest of Truth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FnemDFfdNk) (The Matrix [DVD])
Steve Jablonsky - My Name is Lincoln (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_lp47bYva8) (Avatar)
John Luke - World of Wonder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwoM1qk2kIE)
Two Steps From Hell - Freedom Fighters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJm6b-o2pTM&feature=related) (Star Trek)
Immediate Music - Lacrimosa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPYOcgde98) (Spider-Man)
Future World Music - The Swashbuckler and Fair Maiden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVn8bb4u2Dk)
Two Steps From Hell - Sons of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fk-IuF8oY)
Gundam Seed - Justice and Freedom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5x05GjXGKc)
X-ray Dog - Dark River (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjQns5db7w)
James Newton Howard - London (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCkVmlSVmns) (Blood Diamond)
X-ray Dog - Darkest Empire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHTHagKOiw)
E.S. Posthumus - Indra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omw-rwUST8g)
E.S. Posthumus - Krosah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1T5_R89yzc)
Two Steps From Hell - Heart of Courage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzK6e237II) (Mass Effect 2)
Future World Music - Heart of Fury (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkjuz-zNa_Q)
Denny Schneidemesser - Hybrid Statement (http://www.dennyschneidemesser.com/)
KPM Music - Culture Clash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbrk8wjziI0)
Nemesis - Two Steps From Hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP9qdHziilI)
Justin R. Durban - Fort of Flight (http://www.edgen.com/listen/index.php?list=11)
Justin R. Durban - Dragons (http://www.edgen.com/listen/index.php?list=1)
Denny Schneidemesser - ThunderDome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVhfGQDF2Y)
Iwasaki Taku - Yajuu no Chi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2EnbBlkuU) (Black Cat OST)
Immediate Music - Serenata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UasoJZSiRkk&feature=related)
E.S. Posthumus - Kuvera (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BV4M4uyFE)
Justin R. Durban - Vengeance (http://www.edgen.com/listen/index.php?list=2)
Two Steps From Hell - Atlantis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrnEKq2Yy7U&feature=related)
Two Steps From Hell - Lux Aeterna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCFnj_oC1tE)
Brand-X Music - Paradise Lost (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTbuuGVvX8)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Shade on March 04, 2011, 08:06:07 am: Any later symphony by Beethoven. All of them qualify, but a few particular highlights would be:

5th Symphony, 1st movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgXUFnfKIY) - Though all of it is epic, the first movement is possibly the most famous piece of classical music ever.
7th Symphony, 2nd movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4) - The first 3 minutes or so might well be my favourite among all of Beethoven's compositions.

Wagner:

Tannhäuser overture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkdeQqsvhU) - First three-four minutes or so, mainly, and the ending.
Ride of the Valkyries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlEvy0fJto) - How come noone mentioned this before now? Come on.

Another epic Holst planet to go with StarSlayer's "Mars, the Bringer of War":

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo) - Can't help but love this one.

And finally, we can't leave out the good old Pipe Organ:

Toccata and Fugue in D minor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40) - By Bach. Much of his other stuff would qualify, too.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: T-LoW on March 04, 2011, 08:11:15 am: Oh! And let's not forget about Tchaikovsky's famous 1812 Overture!

Part1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOGl_OWOqg&fmt=18)

Part2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4C2h3lPac&fmt=18)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Sololop on March 04, 2011, 08:31:59 am: I'm showing this thread to my friends. SO much epicness.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 04, 2011, 09:16:11 am: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es&feature=related)

Wagner - Die Götterdämmerung, opera, WWV 86d: Siegfried's Death and Funeral March (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJENAauGJV4&feature=related)

Sergey Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, children's tale for narrator & orchestra, Op. 67 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Rx3XfHEAk&feature=related)

Edvard Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI&feature=related)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Solatar on March 04, 2011, 09:28:17 am: Dies Irae (Day of Judgement/Wrath) from Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vl7NjsHt90

EDIT: I mean...even the LYRICS are badass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Sushi on March 04, 2011, 09:37:58 am: So many to choose from!

Just about anything by Jeremy Soule.
Rebel Camp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46yzCB82kA)

I love me some of Murray Gold's Dr Who too:
All the strange, strange creatures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcij0ARkmU) <-- Why yes, I have designed a Freespace mission for this one. Someday I may even release it.
UNIT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQKBVM4ewE) <!-- And this is it's briefing music.

I'm also a fan of the music from Aquaria:
Arnassi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEnY5SWJZU)
Undiscovered Waters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP7nBFk1C20)

And Mechwarrior II is always great, here's one of my favorites (among many, the whole soundtrack oozes awesome):
Soundtrack - 08 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0LAs9KiXc&p=5C56657968E31606)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 04, 2011, 10:12:32 am: Well, might as well mention certain stuff by Johan Sibelius:

Finlandia, Op. 26 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgwr3wrenkQ) - a symphonic poem from year 1899. I'm not too big on nationalism as an ideology, but damn if it didn't produce a lot of awesome music.
Swan of Tuonela (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBTiv3WGU0). A bit more sedate piece but... well. Go and listen to it. I'd qualify it as "epic" all right.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: LHN91 on March 04, 2011, 10:36:03 am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9w-0H9s-o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9w-0H9s-o) - G-Nome Track 9 - from an old video game from 1996. came with the Packard Bell win95 box we bought in 1998.

Also, second anything, ANYTHING from the mechwarrior 2 soundtrack. That soundtrack was great.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 04, 2011, 01:02:45 pm: Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0&feature=related) "I love this place at night. The stars... there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there. "

TA OST - Forest Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9QO_76l_I&feature=related)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: butter_pat_head on March 04, 2011, 01:10:38 pm: All good stuff here so far. I'm rather fond of James Horner's work on the Star Trek scores but if I had to pick one piece from the two films it would have to be Stealing the Enterprise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UCQppVLMGs). (For the sake of all that is good play it on some decent speakers and play it loud!)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Mongoose on March 04, 2011, 01:41:44 pm: Well this will all take a long time to listen through. :p

My own contribution is the start of Dvorak's New World Symphony, 4th Movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc). I was exposed to it by the anime series One Piece, of all things, but it's freakin' awesome.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Retsof on March 04, 2011, 02:38:40 pm: Wow, this has taken off way better than I expected, you guys are awesome.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: lostllama on March 04, 2011, 03:37:21 pm: So many I haven't heard. Here are two that just came to mind just now.

X-Ray Dog - The Prophet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPyW0TGqqQ&feature=related)

Track from level 1 of The Hive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_PpESoF9A), released in 1995. It gets really good from 2:22 onwards, and unfortunately the intro and sound effects play over the music but other than that it can be heard very clearly. Apparently the other tracks from this game are pretty good too. I think the rest of them can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CB_1Tcxzc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CB_1Tcxzc)

EDIT: Speaking of game music: Christopher Franke - Babylon 5 Into the Fire Promo CD - Battle Themes 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR8fgMPKMXM)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 04, 2011, 03:49:10 pm: Vangelis - Bladerunner OST Tales of the Future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaDdbBNgahI)

Vangelis - Bladerunner OST Tears in Rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdP0S8TmrQ4&feature=related)

Vangelis - Bladerunner OST Rachel's Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBCVfeyaZ8&feature=related)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Sololop on March 04, 2011, 03:59:53 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV75qGY7jBk

80's Rock done justice.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: lostllama on March 04, 2011, 04:04:42 pm: David Arkenstone - Emperor: Battle for Dune - Victory is Inevitable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69LkC82PEs)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Hades on March 04, 2011, 04:16:13 pm: Quote from: StarSlayer on March 04, 2011, 01:02:45 pm
Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0&feature=related) "I love this place at night. The stars... there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there. "
I can't hear that song without thinking of Homeworld and getting sorta sad. :(
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 04, 2011, 06:59:32 pm: If you don't mind the chorus, Jesper Kyd - Freedom Fighters Main Title (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkUVUKUscMo).
From the same soundtrack, Nightfall. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ugCkdPDRFw)

And from the overplayed but still epic files: Immediate Music - Preliator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q6skxRLnsI)
And Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Spicious on March 04, 2011, 07:52:44 pm: Prokofiev - The Death of Tybalt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8i68lpBpc), Juliet's funeral and death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNPXP4fvh8M)
Shostakovich - Symphonies 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8), 7 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtjAmaG7jjA) and 10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbJOE9zNjw)
Mahler - Symphonies 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRy6CRHSBTw), 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH_v9niFoVc), 8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wi1j-rpcEw)
Brahms - Piano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4g3v_h3_sU) concertos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18AujwrQb4)
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Uz3qGsu5Q) (orchestration of your choice, but probably Ravel's)
Stravinsky - Firebird (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashMSM_kc4M) (or solo piano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx1f-DUj2Mg))
Verdi - Requiem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW1Uc-grcMs)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pkRH2DZuw)
Tchaikovsky - Capccio Italien (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flA32aBSmeo), Francesca da Rimini (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FLZsAL8fA), Symphonies 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHj-eekdNU), 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLV5hKU114A), 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebQYH6EpJ8)

This is slightly cheating but:
Schubert - Death and the Maiden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VftmGJALLUw)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Kopachris on March 04, 2011, 08:47:38 pm: As a classical music snob, I am appalled that this thread has to exist.

However, I am even more appalled that those who posted movements from Holst's The Planets missed "Uranus, the Magician:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_3EeCKjNw
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: StarSlayer on March 04, 2011, 10:40:45 pm: Quote from: Kopachris on March 04, 2011, 08:47:38 pm
As a classical music snob, I am appalled that this thread has to exist.

However, I am even more appalled that those who posted movements from Holst's The Planets missed "Uranus, the Magician:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_3EeCKjNw

Just be happy nobody said Mars Bringer of War was ripping off John Williams. :p
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuke on March 05, 2011, 02:46:52 am: black metal people sure do like classical, i found this used as an intro track to a slavia album.

Dvorak - New World Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc)
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Mongoose on March 05, 2011, 03:49:40 am: Oi, I just posted that one. :p
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Nuke on March 05, 2011, 06:58:24 am: Quote from: Mongoose on March 05, 2011, 03:49:40 am
Oi, I just posted that one. :p

i just skimmed through to make sure it hadnt been added already. must have missed the entire second page there. its a damn fine piece though, makes me want to start a revolution or something.
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: Kopachris on March 08, 2011, 09:21:15 pm: Quote from: Nuke on March 05, 2011, 06:58:24 am
Quote from: Mongoose on March 05, 2011, 03:49:40 am
Oi, I just posted that one. :p

i just skimmed through to make sure it hadnt been added already. must have missed the entire second page there. its a damn fine piece though, makes me want to start a revolution or something.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74982.0

Knock yourself out. :p
Title: Re: Epic Orchestrations
Post by: T-LoW on March 10, 2011, 04:46:27 am: Almost forgot a track of one of the most awesome scores of all time!

The charge of the Rohirrim (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoYQDzLvA2s&fmt=18)