Just wondering, if there are any of you there that enjoy listening to non-vocal music...? I think my love for instrumental pieces began when I was younger with wrestling entrance themes that didn't have any words to them. I would watch rasslin' on Monday Night, then throughout the school day hum the themes in class and on the bus. Then music from cartoons became stuck in my head.
As I got older, the more television (non-cartoon and non-wrestling) I began to watch, the more tv commercials with classical pieces in the background and TV's use some instrumental or classical piece. Then movies I watched had them.
So was just looking at my old phone (what I use as my current MP3 player), and was amazed at how many tracks I have from movies, classical composers, tv commercials. I've always been in love with how songs with no words, tell more of a story than ones that do. You can feel more emotion and intensity from the sound of the instruments than someone singing.
Just thought I'd share a few that you might know.
This was a piece some fan mixed all of the best epic LOTR's tracks from the first three flicks.
This is from the 2001 Ocean's Eleven movie, called "Tess" (named after Julia Roberts' character).
This is from 2012 The Dark Knight Rises, titled "Rise" by none other than Hans Zimmer who's done almost all the memorable scores from the last two decades worth of blockbuster movies it seems like.
3:30 to 7 is truly extraordinary.
I first heard this live at a piano concert at 9, fell in love with it instantly. Sucked that twilight ruined it for the masses and first timers.
Rostropovich playing the famed "Bach Cello Suite Prelude" in 1.5 speed. A cover I seem to be a bit more biased to than the speed everyone else plays and it's known for.
From Ocean's 12 (2004). A track I didn't care for much, but now I really really really enjoy it, especially listening to in my car at night on the road.
First heard this in the movie Se7en, when Morgan Freeman's character goes to the library after-hours with the security guards playing a game of poker and he doing his research (pre-internet age!)
Probably my favorite Gershwin piece, this is probably the closest thing to playing this piece perfect as I've heard. Many others have interpreted it to play faster but I think it his the metro jazz style just nicely.
And finally... this was from a GMC Commercial from a decade ago called "Ideas"... and I actually e-mailed GMC to get me in touch with the song producer. The producer then actually sent me a copy of an extended version of the background song without the advertisement words and car sound effects. lol
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