# Recommend me some blood pumping orchestral music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210 "2007-05-23T12:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/41 "2007-05-24T00:13:53Z")
The soundtrack for _Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie_ has got some great moments in it. The soundtrack to _Patton_ would probably have some good moments in it as well, now that I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/42 "2007-05-24T01:00:24Z")
\*\*Rachmaninoff. \*\*(Symphonies, Concerti, Paganini Rhapsody, Symphonic Dances, The Bells, piano music, everything except his operas). And the “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s _Requiem._ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/43 "2007-05-24T01:38:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Half an hour counts as very short, does it? (The bit from 2001 that’s included on compilations is only the opening, ‘Sunrise’.) I did not know that, thanks. I’ll have to keep an eye out for the full version, then. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/44 "2007-05-24T11:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I did not know that, thanks. I’ll have to keep an eye out for the full version, then. [/QUOTE] If you think it’ll be similar to the beginning, you’re in for a huge disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/45 "2007-05-24T11:26:56Z")
[Bill Brown](http://billbrownmusic.com/musicG4.htm) His music for Command & Conquer: Generals. I personally love to listen to “USA 03” when I’m hatching evil plans. Fiendishly evil plans. [DustyButt stares into space] Excellent… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/46 "2007-05-24T13:07:30Z")
Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Especially the last movement. Moussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition (Ravel orchestration), the last two segments in a well-paced recording where the Hut of Baba Yaga goes airborne, transitioning into the Great Gate of Kiev at maximal decibel impact. Sibelius’ violin concerto building up to the final movement where the massed orchestra storms the citadel, but the violin doesn’t give up without a fight (I have a Philadelphia Symphony recording with Ormandy and David Oistrakh which is still the best version I’ve heard). Finlandia and the Karelia Suite by Sibelius also have put me dangerously close to enlisting in the Finnish Army. I also second Holst (Mars and Jupiter). I find it eerie that Mars was composed right on the eve of WWI. And Rossini overtures. No one ever fell asleep during a Rossini overture. Or if they did, it wasn’t for long.\* One more - all the Pomp and Circumstance marches by Elgar, plus his Enigma Variations. \*Sometimes I enjoy thinking about the 19th century overstuffed opera patrons who started dozing off during pastoral sequences of the William Tell overture, only to get blasted out of their seats by an unexpected brass barrage. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/47 "2007-05-24T13:25:32Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] The music from the Nightcrawler attack scene in _X2_, Mozart’s ‘Dies Irae’ from his _Requiem_, is pretty awesome… [/QUOTE] Also used to good effect in the animated short _Jack-Jack Attacks_ (on _The Incredibles_ DVD), as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/48 "2007-05-24T18:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=DustyButt] Fiendishly evil plans. [DustyButt stares into space] Excellent… [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure you need to twiddle your fingers as well. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/49 "2007-05-24T19:02:32Z")
If you watch _24_, the soundtracks for the series are pretty good too. They’re highly electronic (If you like Zimmer, that should be right up your alley), and quite good. Nothing beats the 24 title sequence for sheer intensity. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/50 "2007-05-24T19:07:29Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. Symphony #2. [/QUOTE] I meant his piano concerto #2, not the symphony (although I have nothing against the symphony). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/51 "2007-05-24T19:42:14Z")
Let us not forget Stravinski’s Firebird Suite (not the full ballet). At my brother’s urging, I took one of his coworkers on a date to a concert. She fell asleep. The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei, um, woke her up. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/52 "2007-05-24T20:03:51Z")
Remembered another one: Grieg’s “In the Halls of the Mountain King”. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/53 "2007-05-24T21:31:15Z")
Half of you people must have me on ignore. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210/54 "2007-05-24T21:40:08Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Half of you people must have me on ignore. 😛 [/QUOTE] I haven’t!!! But you mentioned the Rite, not the Firebird, so I’m going to say Good One, **tdn**. (Curse you and your rubbish non-capitalised usernames.) Had Bartok’s _Miraculous Mandarin_ on in the car this evening (the suite, which is the common one anyway as with the Firebird). Not an obvious recommendation, but my god does it pack a lot of punch into a quarter of an hour! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-blood-pumping-orchestral-music/405210.md?page=2)