Most EPIC GRANDEUR music of all time!

I would imagine this will mostly involve classical music and symphonic variations of prog and metal. I have barely begun my journeys into classical music but Wagner seems like my best bet, but please suggest lots of classical composers who do the most epic grandeur music.

Here are my best examples of what I have experienced so far...

Vangelis- Heaven and Hell ((first half))
Yes- Close to the Edge
- Relayer
Jon Anderson- Olias of Sunhillow
Devil Doll- Sacrilegium
- Dies Irae
Mew- And the Glass Handed Kites
Swans- White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Emperor- Anthems to Welkin at Dusk
Rush- ((Cygnus tracks on Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres))
Frost- Milliontown ((title track))
Renaissance- Scheherazade ((title track))

Nobuo Uematsu has been known to do epic videogame music...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbsI9xFuo8

Please do much better than my list, because Im sure there is a lot of music that dwarves what I have heard so far.

I need to listen to Frost!

I have plenty of candidates for this thread up my sleeve. One of them is something I linked only earlier today: BEST SONG OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Try this out for size as well, Mr Gilmour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY

youtube links ridiculously in character

but yeah give those two a spin. you will LOVE the Brahms.

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOXkIiNIHo&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV42R3XCj8o

lololol

LE ORME:
* Tony Pagliuca tastiere
* Aldo Tagliapietra voce, basso, chitarra
* Michi Dei Rossi batteria, percussioni

'tastiere' is 'rack of a thousand synths' y/n

I don't wanna turn this into Thread Of LJ but god I'm gonna have to be restrained. Have you heard of Van der Graaf Generator, Mr Gilmour? :D

I bought Momus a porn mag some months ago, so I consider use of his video fair recompense...

ahahaha

this too is excellent

Oh and on the offchance you haven't heard it yet (you will have done but here's the whole caboodle), this will send you into a gibbering wreck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

someone plz post some apposite mahler

that whole Le Orme album is rife with EPIC GRANDEUR. shame the video didn't post
let me try another one, epic boogie grandeur
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUbry_HkFQ

damn

captain beyond are awwwwwwwesome, that album rules so hard and must be listened to as one extended song-suite really

youtube doesn't auto-embed if yer posting from italy, unlucky dude :P

favorite hawkwind song (please work)
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8gu5VAS6k

damn. not posting from italy. don't know what's wrong. ugh!!!

the 'il.' is your problem. amend it to 'www.' and we're talking

John Barry's orchestral soundtrack for "Dances with Wolves" is what comes immediately to mind. the film is a bit of a bloater, but the music is terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-g0xi70is

Koenjihyakkei - Quidom!!!

koenjihyakkei riotously, gloriously otm

Gonna link the Brahms anyway coz I know it's an arse following linxxx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uCVnPIGYvI

^^^2.56 in is wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od9Kd33qZvQ

success! (thanks louis!)

(you've created a monster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UypOF6nSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SghG37g_HKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiV2qaGQ4OM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73XLkf43-s

I've got Pawn Hearts by Van Der Graaf Generator, which I liked but it never came close to making me cry or anything. I always almost cry when I hear something extremely epic, the first time this happened when I was dancing to Gates of Delerium by Yes and then unexpectedly started to cower and cry a bit, then it happened listening to the Cygnus part of Hemispheres by Rush, so crying is how I measure a good epic track.

That Gustav Holst is bang on.

I have one Magma album, the Kommandoh one, which I love.

I've been wanting those Cardiacs albums for a while, but can only find a decent price on iTunes.

I love Stephen Malkmus but that track is one of my least favorites. I thought his latest album with "Wicked Wanda" is much closer to the mark.

The Hawkwind and Captain Beyond tracks were good, but not exactly like riding on a dragon through thousands of universes at the speed of light. I'm not suggesting all tracks have to evoke power metal imagery, but should evoke something equally impressive.

Gates Of Delirium completely blew my mind too. That ascending synth bit about 13 minutes in that lapses into falsetto guitar heaven is the nuts.

here is VdGG at their most epic (altho cmon Man-Erg is maddddd epic haha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjS8von-ftg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75hFt-Nef-w

more epicness to come

I first heard a live album version of Man-Erg and I liked it better than the still brilliant studio version.

Sacred Sound by IQ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwcNEbdJ0no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CpJ5ANtEM

I've never really been a fan of the Final Fantasy games but I think Nobuo Uematsu deserves all the praise he gets...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clo9Cu6NjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlrcP2zcys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xpUOrwVMHo

When I think of epic grandeur, these are the albums that spring to mind:

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Stereolab - Sound-Dust (inspired by Holst)
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Was thinking earlier that Knights Of Cydonia is genuinely brilliant, epic, joyous etc but the rest ain't so good.

Somehow I never got into the Spiritualized album, it has been one of my biggest "I dont get it" moments. I also happen to love that area of music. That Swervedriver album has been on my wishlist for 6 years.

I thought there were more classical music buffs here? Hardly any metal suggestion either.

dude I told you I'm gonna go crazy here, thing is I should be working :/

but yeah go on you only live once

turangalila symphony - messiaen

There is a prog band called The Enid that do something very close to classical music judging from the one song I heard but it was huge, I bought a new reissue of one of their oldest albums but I havent heard it yet.

I have that Messiaen album and sadly that was another frustrating "I dont get it" moment.

Godspeed You Black Emperor

which enid album, Robert? i have aerie faerie nonsense and in the region of the summer stars; i like both okay, but only in doses

have you listened to espers at all? not so much speed of light dragon flight, but definitely intricately orchestrated and evocative trip folk that exudes a dark grandeur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGPSCB3JeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Nrh_9yv2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwBdOKrC3E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNegbLkV6Mc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjWholSH_KQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z22-VL9ZScY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm6zNYZoHJs

haha i'm listening to van der graaf generator right now and thought of the phrase epic grandeur, and then this thread appeared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE_9KrOqCm4&feature=player_detailpage#t=438s

Robert Adam Gilmour

video should skip ahead to 7:18 in the Koechlin

The best The Enid albums for me would be "Six Pieces" and "Touch Me". They are very much an aquired taste.

that said I wouldn't associate The Enid w/"Epic granduer" they're more, IDK, pastoral maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nICOABymhhs&feature=related

^^ gets epic around 4:35

Hm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_9J32lV81Q

I like that the organ's so loud the player has to wear noise guards!

Which Ear, thankyou for all your classical suggestions.

Buzza, why do you say my name?

I have The Enid's In The Region of the Summer Stars, but I first heard a song called "Malacandra" by them and it very epic and very classical, it totally blew me away, I cant find any decent clips of it but it's included in both their 2010 albums.

That Espers album has also been on my list for a very long time, partly because Rachel Goswell from Slowdive and Mojave 3 sings on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR_2XGWiSEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lC1lRz5Z_s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licht
...does anyone have any opinions or experience with this 29 hour thing Stockhausen did? Is it epic or just very long?

When it comes to fusion jazz, it doesn't get more grandiose than this album:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000259N.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Here's a choice cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evErhhY0Xyg&feature=related

Though the most epic song is the last one on the album ("The Endless Night"), which isn't on Youtube.

Since listening to Cardiacs - Sing To God and the first two The Enid albums, I haven't heard much epic music, unfortunately. I suppose Deathspell Omega fit the bill sometimes.

But I just finished my replays of Havergal Brian's Gothic symphony and it's precisely the sort of monster I was looking for in this thread.
It's the Hyperion label, BBC proms Martyn Brabbins performance, over 800 people in the orchestra! It's a notoriously difficult symphony to pull off.
Over 1 hour and 45 minutes of incredible visions, sometimes there's so much choral stuff going on its hard to take it all in. Monumental.
At first I was disappointed it wasn't all that dark for most of the duration because there's so much heavenly brightness from the singers and even odd whimsical bits. But it's totally amazing.

What immediately comes to mind is the single version of "Ashura Clock" by P-Model. Get a load of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzfB7YEZY

Forgotten to mention Philip Glass/Martin Goldray version of "Floe" done for The Church soundtrack. Which is odd because I've praised it on a few other threads. totally mindblowing track way better than the Glass original.

Just noting some of the above Nobuo Uematsu tracks in case the links die..

Lost Odyssey - "Howl Of The Departed"
Final Fantasy 6 - "Dancing Mad"
Final Fantasy 7 - (one of the end boss tracks, cant remember which)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKy0LQUZi-s

This is my favourite FF theme, pretty epic, but maybe more cinematic than EPIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-05v4k4N3Q

The Cure - Plainsong
Kanye West - We Major

Cardiacs "The Everso Closely Guarded Line"

Also quite a lot of Summoning tracks.

I guess the first Emperor album too, don't know why I left that out.

robert ashley automatic writing

yeah when that organ line first comes in on "Everso Closely Guarded Line" it sends shivers up my spine every time

Fluke - "Switch/Twitch", when it breaks down and becomes this crazy slow burner, hooo boy

Hmmm, I don't really see it in that Fluke track.

Some of the later parts of Dimension Hatross by Voivod has quite an epic feeling.

Probably Halloween by Helloween but I've always found his voice doesn't vary enough so I've never completely loved the song.

If I had to pick a Cure song, "One Hundred Years"

tons of '80s j-pop

Really? That's odd, I always thought J-pop was just as street level as any other singles chart pop. It's not an area I know much about so I welcome any examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmK5IbbNPEo

Can you name that track? Youtube embedded links aren't showing up for me right now, and it's useful to name the videos if the link dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8CUdK3HY0

Okay I'll maybe see these videos at the weekend.

Oh sorry, that is the first track off the Two Towers soundtrack.

Thanks.

Judas Priest and Death versions of "Painkiller"

That was Syunikiss by Malice Mizer (as a representative sample; I think a lot of their songs fit this bill). Not 80's JPop, but late 90s anyway.

RAM check out the last song on the new godspeed! you black emperor album. it's a doozy

I've heard some of Bara No Seidou by Malice Mizer and it is pretty amazing.

Curiously missing. I must have lived through a different 80s than other greys here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BghdVa05yM

Anyway, I really botched by not nominating Dan Deacon's "USA", I didn't see it since I just sorted iTunes by > 10:00 and it's split up into four parts. But I would have placed it really high, it's like a classical composition with Super AE Boredoms-level intensity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADHZcdc0Ik

That Dan Deacon track is really nice, he seems quite popular but this is the first I've heard of him.

I don't think "Dawn Of The Iconoclast" has much more grandeur than most of the other Dead Can Dance stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LIK_hAJmy4

Mono and World's End Girlfriend, Trailer 5, from Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain. It may destroy you.

Nice to see this place updated again

Bal Sagoth, Golden Ashes