From this post here, what non-soundtrack classical stuff conjures up the primal urge to dance and or get physically active?
– O Fortuna
– Egmont Overture
– Much of Wagner.
From this post here, what non-soundtrack classical stuff conjures up the primal urge to dance and or get physically active?
– O Fortuna
– Egmont Overture
– Much of Wagner.
You can’t be serious. Wagner is long stretches of dull punctuated by a few brief moments of exciting.
You want exciting? The last movements of several of Beethoven’s symphonies.
or of Dvorak’s new World Symphony
by “Much” I didn’t mean “Most”
Some of Beethoven’s symphonies are good, even rousing, but they don’t rock. They might cause me to sit back whereever I am and say “damn, that was good”. But they don’t make me want to move it. And furthermore, I can’t get past the sense that it’s music the way some rock makes me forget that in total experience of it (which isn’t a slam, per se, on classical, since other forms such as Goth/Industrial also have that problem with me.)
Oh, come now. The Ninth doesn’t rock your world? Crank up that second movement and tell me you don’t want to skip, or stomp, around the room in frenzied ecstasy! Never mind the choral which I think is just transcendent.
I’m not much of a music snob. I just like the Ninth.
Listen to the last movement of the Seventh by von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonik. Or Toscanini and NBC.
Toscanini and NBC almost get the Fifth to rock, so it might be possible with them. I’ll look for it.
“Danse générale”, the last 4 minutes of Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe”. It’s a bacchanal.
“Fêtes”, second of three nocturnes for orchestra by Debussy.
Tchaikovsky’s ballets – Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, et al.
And if Bizet’s “Toreador March” from Carmen doesn’t lift you to your feet, nothin’ will.
Franz Lizst’s Les Preludes: just hearing it makes me want to drive a tank through a burning Polish monastery at high speed. It would, to quote P. G. Wodehouse, stir the blood of a jellyfish.
The genius of the seventh is that all the movements are pure rhythm and lightness. This even applies to the second movement: all too often played as a dirge, it’s marked ‘allegretto’ and is surely an elegant pavane.
Rachmaninoff…It isn’t fair…Every time I hear it, I go to pieces…It shakes me, it quakes me. It makes me feel goose-pimply all over. I don’t know where I am or who I am or what I’m doing. Don’t stop. Don’t stop. Don’t ever stop!
Absolutely!
In a similar, if slightly more relaxed vein, I’d add the Can-can (Offenbach’s Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld) and Rossini’s trumpet entry from William Tell (aka the Lone Ranger theme).
Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee
Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King
Some of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances or Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances might do it for you.
I nominate the last movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.
Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36 - 4. Finale (Allegro con fuoco)
Man, that cooks!
Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” is all about “the primal urge to dance and or get physically active.”
Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. It really starts going around 3:10 or so.
Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 - the Classical Symphony.
Many Bach pieces should make you want to do a happy dance.
Fugue in G major (“Jig”)
Violin concerto in D major, last movement
Brandenburg concerto #5, last movement
Wow, talk about going for the obscure option! I’m no Bach scholar, but I’d not listened to this piece before, and to be honest I’m not enthralled with it. I can’t help but wonder if it even considered to actually be by JSB? (The way the A minor and E major concertos are routinely presented as ‘the’ solo violin concertos makes me suspect this. On the other hand, people talk of ‘the’ Mendelssohn concerto…)
-Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade
-Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet (especially the Montagues and Capulets)
-Any Strauss waltz
-Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slav
-Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, or La Mer
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, part one
Shostakovich - Tenth Symphony, second movement
Mozart - Dies Irae from Requiem