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When Classical Music Gets Intense
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items For anyone who ever said, "Classical music is boring and relaxing blah, blah..." If you’ve always associated classical music with quiet libraries or falling asleep, this collection is for you. I'm skipping the sleepy nocturnes and going straight to t...
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orchestral
orchestral and symphonies
This piece particularly gives me a huge deal of anxiety and i've never heard something like this before.
Igor Stravinsky’s "Sacrificial Dance" is the explosive climax of The Rite of Spring—a piece so wildly intense that its 1913 premiere literally c...
The Rite of Spring, Pt. 2 "The Sacrifice": XIV. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen Victim) by Igor Stravinsky & Columbia Symphony Orchestra on Apple Music
A harrowing masterpiece written on the brink of the composer's death. Mozart masterfully pits terrifying, driving male voices (representing the damned doomed to flames) directly against delicate female harmonies praying for salvation. The sudden desc...
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626. Confutatis by Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus & Laszlo Heltay on Apple Music
This piece really gets your anxiety. Béla Bartók’s expressionist ballet suite The Miraculous Mandarin remains one of the most polarizing and brilliantly unsettling works of the 20th century. It was so sacrilegious that it got banned after its 1926 Co...
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Op. 19: VI. Chase by Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra & Sascha Goetzel on Apple Music
Famous for literally featuring live cannon fire and ringing church bells, this explosive 15-minute masterpiece commemorates Russia's defense against Napoleon's army in 1812. It is one of the most thrilling, high-energy finales in classical music hist...
Tchaikovsky: Overture "1812"
ok listen. Imagine the literal apocalypse, but make it dramatic theatre kid core. i rly felt the doomsday getting closer
Verdi didn’t just write classical music here; he woke up in 1874 and chose absolute violence. The second those bass drums hit (y...
Verdi's Requiem: Dies Irae - Tuba Mirum by London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry, London Philharmonic Choir & The London Chorus on Apple Music
when i first listened to this piece the opening sounds strangely familiar, i found out that it’s because it directly inspired one of cinema's most famous film scores, John Williams’ theme for Jaws
The final movement opens with brass instruments blas...
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco by Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan on Apple Music
This piece is so frantic and slaps, there's no way i'm studying with this on my ears fr. Originally written for the final act of Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet Gayane, Sabre Dance is famous for its dizzying 4/4 tempo, chromatic passages, and driving...
Gayaneh: Sabre Dance by Vienna Philharmonic & Aram Khachaturian on Apple Music
chamber music
mixed of various instruments and genres; concerto, sonata, solo, suite etc.
Istg this is a headbanger when i first listened to this. Who would've thought classical cannot be metal in 1700s?! I can imagine this is being so sacrilegious for ppl back then :') A breathtaking masterpiece of virtuoso keyboard repertoire. Renowned ...
Scarlatti: Harpsichord Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 141 by Pierre Hantai on Apple Music
"Mea tormenta, properate!" ("Hurry, my torments!") is a dramatic, high-energy Baroque aria composed by Johann Adolph Hasse. Sung from the perspective of Saint Peter following his denial of Jesus Christ, the piece captures a visceral mixture of grief,...
Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena: "Mea tormenta, properate!" by Maxim Emelyanychev, Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d'Oro on Apple Music
Like the title suggests: Le Vertigo, it is very vertigo. Got jumpscared a lot for the first time but you'll get used to it. Hands down one of the most theatrical and aggressive pieces written for the harpsichord! Published in 1746, Royer's Le Vertigo...
Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 11 Le Vertigo - Rondeau by Jean Rondeau on Apple Music