Instrumental Pieces You've Enjoyed

[Querida]

Though we have a song thread, bgm thread, movie soundtrack threads I would like to know instrumental pieces enthrall Hubbers, and to ask for them to be shared and appreciated here in this thread.

Please post any instrumental piece you have heard/composed/remixed etc.

Anything from classic to jazz to latin to trance to fusion and whatever else fits your fancy and compels you to share :D

I'd like to start with some classical

One of my favourite classical pieces:

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0&feature=related

I first heard this most touchingly used for the conclusion of "Elephant Man"
and many of you will recognize this piece from "Platoon"

The same piece I heard years later being covered by an artist by the name
of DJ Tiesto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCA3-dqmQI0&feature=related

Yet another remix of the same piece by William Orbit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbIHxKh9bk&feature=related

Just one piece of music and so many inspired from it,
as they say "imitation is the greatest form of flattery"

[Querida]

My first taste of Dubstep:


http://youtu.be/0uuZZV2rwi4
(http://youtu.be/0uuZZV2rwi4)

[Querida]

Violin Remix...don't know what original violin piece is called...

Outside: "To Forgive But Not Forget".

http://youtu.be/L-pKtc9_7dg
(http://youtu.be/Z5j3CORfxmw)

[Bipolar]

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm... Where to begin?

"Fields of Gold" - instrumental version by Kevin Kern - piano, guitar and ?bass - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLv3wDV1CA (original by Sting)

"Pearls of Joy" - Kevin Kern - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZQj-FE3ik&feature=related

"Leaving Paris" - Craig Armstrong - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w8uM-H6_jg

"Balcony Scene" - Craig Armstrong - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUTgaoSVh0

"I Giorni" - Ludovico Einaudi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuGfmoIv_M

More later...

[Querida]

:ty: for sharing Bipolar!!

Please do continue when you can :)

[Querida]

There are many works of Yanni
this is just one of my very favourites:

"The Storm" - http://youtu.be/SSrH_oqnrl0

[Bipolar]

"Mountain in the Mist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GYCvdh93o)" - Craig Chaquico

"Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVEzGVFB1J4&feature=related)" ("Orchestral version") - Miles/Lowland

"Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs3nnPKMiZE&feature=related)" ("Dream version") - Robert Miles

"Obsession Confession (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyuZbwk4bQ)" - Slash (former lead guitarist with Guns N' Roses)

[Sunil_M88]

Querida :clap:

Flute pieces

Kal ho naa ho - heartbeat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZqcrOgzH8

Asoka - theme song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHB1BVjJ6w

Kangal irandal and Chinnakannan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXJRmoEYGM Reeti gowlai :bow:

Senthoora poove - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N0T8uumxQQ

Kanne kalaimaane - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcPQcPKNck

Kisna theme - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRIajgQ9g4

Bole sajni - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8TyFYM7Dso

Piano

Yeh dooriyan from LAK - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atdbimuMN9o

Guzarish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfonkXa8ubY&feature=related

Varaayo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZkAhYR2YY

Guitar

Nenjikkull - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpJdeoikoA - Sorry there's singing here

Annal mele - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmQCLCvLGaA&feature=related

Aaromale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjJ7dFe4Ar0

Violin

Vaseegra - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLdu-fmF4-U

Mudhal mazhai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZld0xMZ3M

Other pieces

Idhu Varai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMHC477tCc

Ayyayo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSSDT0v9B2U

|| A MASSIVE SALUTE TO THE REAL TALENT OUT THERE ||

[kubrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck

[Querida]

I've been blindly looking around for this one for quite awhile
the only piece of music that accompanied me from Quebec to Toronto ages ago

The Beatnuts: Look Around - Instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuY5oqdydzs

[Querida]

Kubrick amazing piece that you have shared, :ty:

I heard the piano version in the movie "Ordinary People"

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6heUdRr-E

[Bipolar]

"Courage of the Wind" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlvBHJAdQF0) - David Lanz - Piano (Style: romantic/uplifting/nostalgia)

"Chinese Lake Reflections" (http://dl2.russian.proxy.fuhar.com:81/mp3/dl3_mp3/mp3_311/2001%20Chillout%20Moods/2/Matt%20Molloy%20-%202001%20Chillout%20Moods%20CD2%20-%2012%20-%20Chinese%20lake%20reflections.mp3) - Matt Molloy - Harp, flute, ?piano (Style: relaxing/chillout; - this tune gives me a feel of a boat ride through a lake on a winter's night)

"Los sueños" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8J6lZ9sbtE) - Astor Piazzolla - Bandoneon, with string ensemble (Style: romantic/tango; - to me, this tune evokes a feel of a newly-wed couple on their honeymoon, they've gone to South America, they're dancing a tango, or they're spending an evening going to coffeeshops, watching street performers, etc.)

"Indian Spring" (http://dl2.russian.proxy.fuhar.com:81/mp3/dl3_mp3/mp3_311/2001%20Chillout%20Moods/8/Craig%20Chaquico%20-%202001%20Chillout%20Moods%20CD8%20-%2006%20-%20Indian%20Spring.mp3) - Craig Chaquico & Douglas Spotted Eagle - Panflute, Acoustic guitar (Style: chillout; - this tune gives me a feel of a scene of a campfire at a secluded spot on the edge of a woodland on a riverbank on a quiet full moon night)

[Bipolar]

"El Ritme De Amor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9sVm6juBA)" - Kevin Laliberte - acoustic guitar, with backing band

"Always with me, Always with you (http://dl2.russian.proxy.fuhar.com:81/mp3/mp3_10/Joe%20Satriani/Joe%20Satriani%20-%201987%20Surfing%20With%20The%20Alien/Joe%20Satriani%20-%201987%20Surfing%20With%20The%20Alien%20-%2004%20-%20Always%20With%20Me,%20Always%20With%20You.mp3)" - Joe Satriani - Electric guitar (Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fPv450OYM) on YouTube). Probably Satriani's most popular tune - certainly my favourite! Very relaxing tune.

"Ascolta (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGrZ74vS3A)" - Ludovico Einaudi - piano, synthesizer - This tune has a "science fiction" feel to it. Although it is mainly dominated by the piano, the added synthesizer effects give it a "cold" and "dark" feel.

"The Snow Prelude N. 15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoTbrZlRzYI)" - Ludovico Einaudi - piano

"Ballade pour Adeline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bul2b6uT2QU)" - de Senneville/Toussaint/Clayderman - piano, orchestra. Probably one of the most popular tunes of all time - composed by Paul Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, played by Richard Clayderman; it was a tribute to de Senneville's newborn daughter Adeline; the music expresses the pride and joy felt by a father for his daughter.

"In a lover's eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT8KxsqRLd8)" - Jim Brickman - piano

[Querida]

- Music Pieces from West Java -Familiar flute peeks through yet lightly haunting overall

'Sabilulungan' Sundanese Gamelan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juE-LXj3BQE&feature=related

Kacapi Suling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXjP8vRmgg&feature=related

Kacapi Suling - Hariring Kuring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg_4fC98fg&feature=related

The youtube uploader "fyardhie" has posted many other beautiful pieces.

[Querida]

Been hearing a couple of tracks from Quantic, they seem to do alot of eclectic world music and fusion this is one lazy afternoon sounding one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2RrKM3b1c4&feature=related

Not So Blue: silly little cartoon video included, music is more jazzy and lounge-like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBft8qY6caE&NR=1

have not explored all their tracks but they seem to make it their mission to explore many areas of music genres.

[groucho070]

Revisted Batman Returns yesterday. Maan....

Best opening ever, best composition ever. Elfman have never received Oscar. Yeah, those b*******s.


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

[rajraj]

Bolero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

Also listen to the one conducted by Zubin Mehta! :)

[Querida]

Best opening ever, best composition ever. Elfman have never received Oscar. Yeah, those b*******s.



I never knew that!! :shock: If anyone deserved not just a nomination but several wins it's Elfman!!

[Querida]

The instrumental version of that famous "Baker Street" sax piece...infectious to say the least :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6NZT6zFko

[adezhevaqogo]

Illayaraja's how to name it is really good...not evryone but 'how to name it' and 'do nything' is too good

[rajraj]

Java by Al Hirt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERNdH-0OcXc

[rajraj]

Vivaldi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJ8BmFPt3U

[Bipolar]

"Spell of the Gypsies" by Buckethead:

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

The opening reminds me very much of Pachelbel's Canon in D; but still, I'm not suggesting that this was a straight lift - just heavily inspired, and interestingly developed further...

[Bipolar]

"Soothsayer" by Buckethead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adV8-_hgL4g

Probably his biggest hit...

Just 9-and-a-half minutes of pure electric guitar brilliance...

[Bipolar]

"In un'altra vita" ("In another life") - by Ludovico Einaudi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnQv2NfVmg

Beautiful piece of music by Einaudi.

[Designer]

Bolero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

Also listen to the one conducted by Zubin Mehta! :)

Fantastic compositon, Raj :). I had the solo flute version of Bolero and other instrumentals (1980's version; by Cambridge Buskers I think) in a cassette tape, but it got erased accidentally some years ago :(

[Designer]

A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, from the cult movie of disco, Saturday Night Fever (1977). A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made John Travolta, already well known from his role on TV's Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name.

Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger who rose to cult status with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of some passages of the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in 1976, when disco was at the height of its popularity. The song was a smash hit, and reached number 80 on the Hot 100 on May 29, 1976, eventually reaching number 1 within nineteen weeks, where it stayed for one week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFbn8EbB4k

[JamesDap]

Well, any number of classical and jazz compositions (if, that is, we can apply the word composition to jazz). This is one of my favourite jazz tracks:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HUEiUOCLeI

[Designer]

Francis Lai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lai) - A Man and a Woman (instrumental) from the movie of the same name (1966). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_and_a_Woman)
(French: Un homme et une femme)

The soundtrack was written by Francis Lai and earned "Best Original Score" nominations at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards in 1967. The film's theme song, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Pierre Barouh, was also nominated for "Best Original Song in a Motion Picture" at the Golden Globe Awards. In Finland it has become one of the most easily recognizable TV advertisement themes, having been used for decades by the cruiseferry brand Silja Line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi58z5eXEco





Francis Lai - A Man And A Woman - all 3 movie versions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-NDSLEkKI

[Designer]

Star Wars Theme Song By John Williams (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24272523)

The Star Wars theme from the 1977 film won John Williams the most awards of his career, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta. The theme was also named best instrumental composition, best original score and best pop instrumental performance at the Grammys. It has been voted the UK's favourite film soundtrack in a new BBC vote, taking almost a quarter of the votes polled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI