Fortissimo!: The World's Loudest Classical Music

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1Fanfare (from Also Sprach Zarathustra)
orchestra:
Bamberger Symphoniker
conductor:
Horst Stein
recording of:
Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30: I. Einleitung (Sonnenaufgang)
composer:
Richard Strauss (in 1896)
publisher:
Peters Edition Ltd.
Richard Strauss1:41
2Behold, the Sea Itself (from A Sea Symphony)Ralph Vaughan Williams3:27
3Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walküre)Richard Wagner2:23
4Night on Bald Mountain
orchestra:
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
conductor:
Eduardo Mata
recording of:
Une nuit sur le mont chauve: Fantaisie pour l'orchestre (Night on Bald Mountain, orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov)
orchestrator:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (in 1886)
composer:
Modest Mussorgsky (from 1867-06-12 until 1867-06-23)
dedicated to:
Wladimir Stassoff
publisher:
W. Bessel & Cie (in 1886)
is based on:
St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
part of:
Fantasia (Disney soundtrack)
Modest Mussorgsky11:25
5Montagues and Capulets (from Romeo & Juliet)Sergei Prokofiev3:18
6Final Scene (from Turandot)Giacomo Puccini3:44
7Trépak: Russian Dance (from The Nutcracker)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1:07
8Fanfare of the Common Man
orchestra:
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
recording of:
Fanfare for the Common Man (for brass and percussion orchestra)
composer:
Aaron Copland (in 1942)
was commissioned by:
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Eugene Goossens
premiered by:
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (on 1943-03-12) and Eugene Goossens (on 1943-03-12)
publisher:
Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.
Aaron Copland3:06
9Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1Sir Edward Elgar6:27
10Introit for a Feast Day
choir vocals:
Musica Sacra
conductor:
Richard Westenburg
recording of:
Introit for a Feast Day
composer:
Gerre Hancock
Gerre Hancock2:08
11Baba Yaga (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
orchestra:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Yuri Temirkanov
recording of:
Tableaux d’une exposition: IX. La cabane sur des pattes de poules (Baba-Yaga) (Pictures at an Exhibition: XIV. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yaga), orchestrated by Ravel)
orchestrator:
Maurice Ravel (in 1922)
composer:
Модест Петрович Мусоргский (from 1874-06-02 until 1874-06-22)
orchestration of:
Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 9 “Избушка на курьихъ ножкахъ” (Баба-Яга) [Izbushka na kuryikh nozhkakh (Baba-Yagá)] (original piano version)
part of:
Tableaux d’une exposition (Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Ravel)
Modest Mussorgsky8:59
12O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)Carl Orff2:44
13Sacrificial Dance (from The Rite of Spring)Igor Stravinsky4:41
14William Tell Overture: FinaleGioachino Rossini3:14
15Festliches Präludium
orchestra:
Bamberger Symphoniker
conductor:
Horst Stein
recording of:
Festliches Präludium (op. 61; TrV 229)
composer:
Richard Strauss (in 1913)
part of:
Works of Richard Strauss by opus number (number: op. 61) and Werkverzeichnis (number: TrV 229)
Richard Strauss12:22
161812 Overture: Finale
orchestra:
Leningrad Military Orchestra and Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Yuri Temirkanov
partial recording of:
The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E-flat major, op. 49
premiered in:
Moscow, Russia (on 1882-08-20)
composer:
Пётр Ильич Чайковский (from 1880-09 until 1880-11)
part of:
The Tchaikovsky Handbook (number: TH 49), Thematic and Bibliographical Catalogue of P. I. Čajkovskij's Works (number: ČW 46) and Works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by opus number (number: op. 49)
is based on:
Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)
quotes music from:
Troparion of the Holy Cross
quotes music from:
La Marseillaise (national anthem of France)
quotes music from:
Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky4:19

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