I know I’ve heard it in several other places–including during footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a documentary. What is it?
Movement 2 by Vangelis, from the Mythodea album.
Coulda sworn it was Mars, Bringer of War, but then I’m probably misremembering the commercial.
I guess this is it then. Thanks.
Max, thanks for the idea, but I know it’s not The Planets. I know Holst’s major works inside and out (or at least enough to recognize them with the play you’d get from a 30-second commerical.) However, I do agree that it has sounds like it could be Holst or Orff.
Then Holst’s estate had better sue Vangelis for plagiarism, because it sounds precisely like it.
“Mars, The Bringer of War” has been ripped off repeatedly by a great many composers.