My college band (Winona State University) played this for our spring concert this year! I will say that no recording will ever live up to what it feels like to sit in the middle of the band with this playing around you, but I will never get tired of listening to the recording!
this is my favorite movement of the symphony, the marcia funebre is gorgeous and the theme of gandalf just before captures perfectly the mood and the situation
The instrumentation is so hard to identify. Everything blends so well. The tritones, semitone dissonances, and mixed tuplet rhythems with the brass hits combine to make it so amazing.
@larbo1616 It's actually sampled for the movies. This symphony came long before the movies ever did. Longgg before. Howard Shore based his music off of this, so much so that Gandalf even whistles the 5th movement as he is in the Shire.
@ramarrevan I was wondering if I was the only one that caught that!!!! I played the Gandalf piece in Tri-State Honor Band at FSU in December 1990....Junior in High school Loved it!!!
I'm playing this, together with "the hobbits" and "gandalf" with the orchestra that i'm in. I must say that it are the hardest 'songs' that i have ever played. I like johan de meij, he makes very good music. Like "Banja Luka". That was fun to play :) (btw, sorry for my mistakes in English) Greetz from Belgium :)
very stravinsky! i love the percussion and horns and those fantastic chords, though there is a passage in shore's score that conveys the sense of wonderment in moria that I miss.
@fspilot221 listen to the first movement/section of this piece, "Gandalf". Listening to this, I'm not liking much of what I'm hearing, but the first part is good.
My college band (Winona State University) played this for our spring concert this year! I will say that no recording will ever live up to what it feels like to sit in the middle of the band with this playing around you, but I will never get tired of listening to the recording!
this is my favorite movement of the symphony, the marcia funebre is gorgeous and the theme of gandalf just before captures perfectly the mood and the situation
The instrumentation is so hard to identify. Everything blends so well. The tritones, semitone dissonances, and mixed tuplet rhythems with the brass hits combine to make it so amazing.
great post one of the best ever is the Lord of the Ring novels
Such fantastic major chords in the brass!
amazing slideshow. well done!
@larbo1616 It's actually sampled for the movies. This symphony came long before the movies ever did. Longgg before. Howard Shore based his music off of this, so much so that Gandalf even whistles the 5th movement as he is in the Shire.
What a wonderful cor anglais solo :)
Artwork goes with the music very well.
@ramarrevan I was wondering if I was the only one that caught that!!!! I played the Gandalf piece in Tri-State Honor Band at FSU in December 1990....Junior in High school Loved it!!!
I'm playing this, together with "the hobbits" and "gandalf" with the orchestra that i'm in. I must say that it are the hardest 'songs' that i have ever played.
I like johan de meij, he makes very good music. Like "Banja Luka". That was fun to play :)
(btw, sorry for my mistakes in English)
Greetz from Belgium :)
If you like hard pieces, you would like "Liminal" by John Mackey.
very stravinsky! i love the percussion and horns and those fantastic chords, though there is a passage in shore's score that conveys the sense of wonderment in moria that I miss.
an (amazing) wind ensemble piece has been transcribed for orchestra.... how the tables have turned XD
dope!
I always thought this is the more [if not the most] sinister movement of the entire symphony.
@medusa2645 Thats all up to interpretation. This piece was written based off the books which have a much different feeling than the film.
@fspilot221 listen to the first movement/section of this piece, "Gandalf". Listening to this, I'm not liking much of what I'm hearing, but the first part is good.
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Yeah, I totaly agree with you. The music from howard shore is better I think. But that's my opinion :)
A balrog disliked this.
8 of them did.
Sure? Last time I checked it was the trombones...
French horn is the best instrument ever
All I gotta say is 5:54...
the music are inspired by the book not the movie