Depends. "Black Lava" by Satyricon has some very thunderlike riffs (and starts with the words "grey heavens, no light shed"). But they might be too metally, or you might not want lyrics. Wagner is a safe bet, so is Thaicovsji (or however he is spelt in the english) in his more depressive times. Other than that, LOTR score has some fairly hefty stuff in it.
I think she means Tchaikovsky. And yes, I'd certainly agree on the Wagner score. The Ring of the Nibelung is full of orchestral crashes to go with the general abundance of lightning and thunder in anything Norse.
there's something... a phantasia on the Skye Boat Song, I think, starts very quiet and classy, and goes into full blown raging sea later, and quite deliberately. Also, some parts of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring are quite thunderous. The Ritual of Abduction piece especially, though its quite an angry, agressive piece. The classic opening to Carmina Burana by Karl Orff has always been quite driven and ponding,and was famously used in the Old Spice add, so would be easily associated with waves and sea whilst still being an amazingly moving and forceful peice.
For a stately, calm sea, there's a piece about the Vltava river by Bedrich Smetana, which portrays the river musically all the way from its source in the mountains til its grand entrance to Prague. Those last parts, going through the city, make for wide open sea music, in case you need a before and after storm segment.
oooh, yes, O Fortuna definately. It is called "the rite of spring" in english? Every other country seemed to manage to translate it into "the Spring Sacrifice". I agree on that too, damn, I forget my classical knowledge at the drop of a hat.
Koto-drum-heavy soundtrack pieces like "Tracking The Prey" from The Crow score by Graeme Revell (after the extract of It Can't Rain All The Time) or "Main Title Deconstruction" by Danny Elfman for the new Planet Of The Apes (I have it on a compilation, honest...)
I would imagine the score for something like Rising Sun would have a lot of this too.
The earlier movemens of the New World Symphony by Dvorak has lots of thundery, sealike bits. it is ment to be a tonal poem on the Atlantic crossing. Or Mendelsson's Hebredies Overture.
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Other than that, LOTR score has some fairly hefty stuff in it.
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For a stately, calm sea, there's a piece about the Vltava river by Bedrich Smetana, which portrays the river musically all the way from its source in the mountains til its grand entrance to Prague. Those last parts, going through the city, make for wide open sea music, in case you need a before and after storm segment.
Hope that helps some. Cheers, Shevy
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I would imagine the score for something like Rising Sun would have a lot of this too.
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