Best use of classical music on a movie soundtrack

In your sphere, perhaps. I don’t live in your world.

My fave use in Excalibur is the music used during “Merlin! Where are you Merlin? Are you a dream?”

And of course practically the first (if not the first) use of Carmina Burana in a film.

Best use of Carmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMOClN9ITg

Westworld. After seeing that scene I then watched this nice compilation on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDKZDQCrJ8

I had no idea it was so ubiquitous! Thanks for sharing.

Yes. That movie was meh, but the Beethoven is probably the best thing about it.

“Prelude to Parsifal.”

FWIW, Roger Ebert was really enthusiastic about that movie. He gave it four stars out of four stars and ranked it the sixth best movie that year.

I apologize for sounding snarky. I was genuinely taken aback at the notion of Bolero being obscure before 1979.

Use of The Planets (Gustav Holst) in The Right Stuff. Though I just checked the soundtrack listing and found that Holst is not credited - apparently it was arranged by Bill Conti and he got all the credit?? Same deal with the theme music of this movie, the theme is straight from Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto but credited to Bill Conti.

This was my first thought. The movie was hard for me to watch, and the music was absolutely haunting. To this day, it tears me up.

Forgiven. :slight_smile:

I don’t care at all for Woody Allen, but Mr. CK tells me he appreciated the use of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.

And Prokofiev in Love and Death.

Most of the Prokofiev in that movie is from the original soundtracks of two movies, *Alexander Nevsky *and Lieutenant Kijé. Does it still count as classical music?

Does Swan Lake count as classical because its the soundtrack of a ballet?

So does *Alexander Nevsky *count as a movie with a classical score for the purposes of this thread?

Yes. Classical composer creating classical music purposed for a film.

So like Star Wars?

No, Swan Lake counts as classical because it’s classical.