good classical music

Some decent classical tunes for game playing:

'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
'Mars, the Bringer of War' from The Planets by Gustav Holst

Maybe:
'Danse Macabre' by Camille Saint-Saens
'Scheherezade' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
'Night on the Bare Mountain' by Modest Mussorgsky

Hope you're able to try/enjoy some of these.

Mike

There's obviously lots of great classical music, but among the most accessible, I'd recommend the following.

For sheer beauty and emotion try:

Barber's Adagio for Strings
Edward Elgar's 'Nimrod'
Gabriel Faur?'s 'Requiem'

For 'Rock' type energy and dynamics try

'Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff
'Romeo and Juliet' by Prokoviev
and Copeland, of course.

vivaldi's four seasons
tchaikovsy's nutcracker suite
bach's brandenburg concertos
bizet's carmen

there is a barber's adagio that is also performed by brass, flute, clarinet, choral and strings. don't get that horrible dance monstrosity by william orbit (?) - he butchered it :mad:

O Mio Babbino Caro

great song to kill stuff to it's an aria so it's a specific kind of song from the opera (a solo in an opera) Gianni Schichi (I think you spell it like that)

Another good one is "La Gazza Ladra" but wait till later on in the song because the beginning kinda sux just keep listening it starts to get good. In english the song is called The Thieving Magpie, and opera by Rossini.