Mood - Energise

Williams: Star Wars - music for the film (Main title)

May the Force be with you!

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Stand back. It's a big 'un

Adams: A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

We feel the need....the need for speed!

Stravinsky: The Firebird suite (1945 version)

Magic and fantasy flourish in Stravinsky’s first great score

Adams: Absolute Jest

A Beethoven mash-up: hilarious!

Herrmann: Vertigo - Music from the film (love music)

Classic film music which hits the heights

Bliss: Things to come - music for the film

Fly to the moon and let's play among the stars

Orff: Carmina Burana

The fickle finger of fate

Williams: Fantasia on Welsh nursery tunes

Proudly Welsh from the beginning

Birtwistle: Panic

Don't!

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Mr Punch's ballet

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

Opera's greatest overture? Yes!

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Strings, with strings attached

Tippett: Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)

It's animal magic!

De Falla: El Amor brujo (Ritual fire dance)

Magic from mystical Espana

Bernstein: Candide (Overture)

Great big smiles all round

Vaughan WIlliams: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

Henry VIII's song orchestrally immortalised

Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

A symphony of real originality

Stravinsky: Scherzo a la russe

From Russia - via Paris - to LA

Berlioz: Waverly Overture

French praise of Scottish nobility

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

French style laced with a little je ne sais quoi

Verdi: Requiem

Operatic and dramatic to its core

Herrmann: The Man Who Knew Too Much and Citizen Kane - music from the films

Hustle and bustle from the golden age and New Hollywood styles of cinema

Martinů: Symphony No. 1

Rhythm and syncopation and imagination

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op 43

Angrily facing down Death

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op 60, 'Leningrad'

An intense, frightening but rewarding experience

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op 112, 'The Year 1917'

What a year that was!

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection'

A hero's journey which starts with a death

Copland: Billy the Kid

Yee-haw!

Hillborg: Violin Concerto No.1

Challenging, complex and far from conventional

Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

"My subject is War, and the pity of War"

Elgar: Symphony No. 3 in C minor compl. Anthony Payne

Elgar’s final symphonic thoughts completed 60 years later

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

A rousing hymn of ringing chimes, cannon fire and a brass fanfare finale

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major

One of the beautiful ‘cathedrals of sound’

Copland: Violin Sonata

From the US: 'Big Sky' music

Harris: Symphony No. 3

The archetypal 20th Century American symphony

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op 100

"A hymn to free and happy Man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit"

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H 7b 1

A world premiere 200 years late!

Hindemith: Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber

German romantic tunes given a 20th Century makeover

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March)

Musical lullabies to match Shakespeare's masterwork

Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile

Fast-paced, fresh, carefree, joyful and silly

Bartók: Dance suite for orchestra, Sz 77

Here's a fun challenge: try dancing to these wild rhythms

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

A ghost ship sails through a storm-tossed tragedy

Dvořák: Carnival overture

Enjoy the hustle and bustle of Bohemian street life

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (overture; Rejouissance; Menuet 1 and 2)

A sparkling suite that stops the traffic

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite

A Christmas cracker!

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

How an orchestra can paint vivid pictures

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Magical Mickey Mouse music

Borodin: Polovtsian dances from 'Prince Igor'

Is this kismet? Be moved by these rhythmic sounds

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

What? A concerto for all the instruments? Béla shows us how it's done

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op 36

Fate versus hope in the battle for happiness

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in sound

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Prelude to Act I)

This isn't just an opera, it's a pageant, an event. It's Wagner.

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op 88

So joyful and relaxed, you can almost feel the Czech countryside in the summer

Handel: Water Music, Suite II

Famous tunes that still make a splash

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Romantic visions and opium obsessions

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathetique'

Rage against the dying of the light

Strauss II: Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka

Poking fun at the Viennese passion for gossip

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien

The music of warm Italian nights and animated conversations

Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude to Act III)

Here comes the bride! True love is victorious

Gershwin: An American in Paris

The bustling sound of Paris in the 1920s

Berlioz: Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust

Marching music to save your soul

Ravel: Miroirs (Alborada del gracioso)

Bounding clown-like bass and shimmering high notes

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34

Spanish folk melodies and celebratory dance

Janáček: Sinfonietta

Triumphant trombones and military fanfares

Falla: Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1

A Spanish folk tale of jealousy, intimacy and misunderstandings

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Dawn Music; Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March)

The beginning of the end

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas overture

Victor Hugo inspires another musical hit

Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Rule Britannia and other flag-waving marine favourites

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 'Romantic'

A musical painting of the natural world

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op 67

This is it, the big one - DA DA DA DUUUUUUN!

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter festival overture, Op 36

The voice of an archangel in trumpet form

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, 'In London Town'

Ode to the mythical land of plenty from where Cockneys come

Wagner: Tannhauser (Overture)

It's heart-swelling stuff

Strauss II: Thunder and lightning polka, Op 324

Kicking up a storm with some bash, roll and crash

Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Overture)

Czech dancing, riotous tempos and a farcical story of frivolity

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1

The rousing sound of the British Empire in all its pomp

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian'

A dazzling musical grand tour of Italy

Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain

Stormy heights of doom in Disney's Fantasia

Strauss I: Radetzky March

Austria's answer to Rule Britannia

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

A piece which draws on the composer's Spanish heritage

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