Classical Epicness

There have been a lot of attempts to get classical music a wider audience of late, mostly with wacky synth crossovery things or artists chosen for their physicality rather than virtuosity (looking distinctly at Wild / Escala / Il Divo here..)

This little vid, however, blends a rather gentle and haunting take on Orff's Carmina Burana with some Top Gear-esque imagery, and is well worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpx4YqMkrfc

Any other classical recommendations?

I said to a friend just the other night that I always start humming Carmina Burana in my head whenever I see/fight a Fortuna

O Fortuna,
velut luna,
....

I freely admit to never actually hearing this song before. There was something familiar about it though. Awesome song to.




Ok, this is why it sounded a little familiar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mHDqv8Lz0

I remeber the first time I heard O Fortuna, it was Excalibur.

My favourite song about a Twi'lek.

Here's another take on it... works wonderfully well with the low-end bass CRANKED and tempo up 10% in a Goth club. (Samuraiko may also need to borrow the gloriously overblown intro and chorus segments..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1WpERF80DM

I've always loved E.S. Posthumus' music but my respect for them grew when they covered Moonlight Sonata.

Some of my characters

This is a very very good version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-v6DfYXocY

One of my favorite versions of "O Fortuna" is Highland's rendition... I listen to this, and I imagine the all-out, balls-to-the-wall, cram-everyone-we-can-get-into-the-Shadow-Shard slugfest from Hell with the Seven Aspects of Rularuu.

(I collect electronica remixes of classical music. My current favorite? The Glitch Mob's rendition of a Vivaldi concerto that is just four-to-the-floor AWESOME. For fun, I timed Kilik's wuxia kata to the piece... holy crap, it looks amazing in a video.)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Have some Epica, In the Hall of the Mountain King. That song's been redone in so many epic/modern ways it's unreal.

Dave Edmunds' Sabre Dance?
And the classic Yourtub video..