Loudest, most Violent Classical?

A little effortfinding the right keywords to nail specifics on a search engine, but Mahler was the man:

Absolutely agree with The Rite Of Spring, and regarding The Firebird,  I'd go for the complete ballet over the Suite. Antal Dorati conducting the London SO on Mercury Living Presence is would make an excellent choice for the latter.

I'd also highly recommend composer Bela Bartok: 

Concerto For Orchestra
Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
The Miraculous Mandarin
The Piano Concertos

These are good symphonic pieces to start with.  Loud, agressive, and dissonant. 

Also, the String Quartets.  If you want to hear music that (imo) influenced Robert Fripp, check these out. Sometimes they sound downright Crimsonesque.

There is a lot of support for Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" here. When I was VERY young my parents took me to the cinema to see a Disney film called "Fantasia" made in 1940. They say if you can listen to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" without thinking of Mickey Mouse you are truly cultured!!! Though seriously folks....this was a good film, Stokowski was a good conductor and there was some great music in the movie, "Rite" and  Beethoven's "Symphony no.6" was my first introduction to classical music and i never forgot it. I have many versions of these classics and are still amongst my all times faves....though i do still think of MM, dinosaurs and mythical creatures, i must be very uncultured!!! 

Edited by mystic fred - August 20 2006 at 17:16

Australian wrote: Some of Schoenberg's music is god damn strange, and loud as well.

And annoying.

Gustav holst "The Planets Suite".

Edited by Abstrakt - August 21 2006 at 12:22

mystic fred wrote: There is a lot of support for Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" here. When I was VERY young my parents took me to the cinema to see a Disney film called "Fantasia" made in 1940. They say if you can listen to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" without thinking of Mickey Mouse you are truly cultured!!! Though seriously folks....this was a good film, Stokowski was a good conductor and there was some great music in the movie, "Rite" and  Beethoven's "Symphony no.6" was my first introduction to classical music and i never forgot it. I have many versions of these classics and are still amongst my all times faves....though i do still think of MM, dinosaurs and mythical creatures, i must be very uncultured!!

Abstrakt wrote: Gustav holst "The Planets Suite". "Mars, The Bringer Of War" and "Jupiter, The Bringer of jollity" is very loud at times

Hell Yeah!

Edgard Varese, anyone?

pictures at an exhibition is mussorsgsky

Was thinking about a topic like this a week or two ago after listening to Nightwish's Ghost Love Score.  That song in particular but the whole album has some loud, violent symphony passages which are great and had me thinking that if I could find classical music along those lines, I would be interested. 

I just don't know if I want to go down that path of buying a bunch of classical stuff hoping it would be to my taste.  I have enough to tackle with my prog interests.  Is there a classicalarchives.com?