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Title: Serenade For Strings In C Major
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa

 
I was a big Billy Joel fan as a kid, but one of his songs, This Night, always seemed a touch too ethereal, kind of out of time. The refrain just soared, and moved me at a level the grade-school Wanderer didn't understand.

Turns out he ripped it whole cloth (credited on the album notes) from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique. As an adult I was floored when I got deeper into classical and stumbled across it. Still, gorgeous, and a nice modernized interpretation of an amazing piece of music.


View: https://youtu.be/wNOXu_yoDYI?si=XEy4zx75_HuobbR_



View: https://youtu.be/vGq3-Fi_zQY?si=gObpYlwdH6-eRglg
 
Title: O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Composer: Carl Orff




This piece was cited by PFL on page one of this thread, but I'm repeating it here, well, because it bears repeating. And also because it was requested by @oldbagfan.
 
I'm a sucker for an ethereal descant...

TipRoast said:
Title: O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Composer: Carl Orff




This piece was cited by PFL on page one of this thread, but I'm repeating it here, well, because it bears repeating. And also because it was requested by @oldbagfan.
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A classical music triumph as the iconic theme for one of the most famous games of our time. But the lyrics are in a fictional lore language, and thus:


View: https://youtu.be/cSBCaGRILJI?si=QeGLXyLjuQ-hGWKd
 
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