Doing taxes at work, bored, need something inspiring and uplifting to listen to!
Full orchestra stuff which makes you turn the volume up 🙂

Here’s my list so far, in no particular order, please add to it:

Feuerfest – Strauss
Radetsky March – Strauss (a different one)
Cancan – Offenbach
Hall of the Mountain King – Grieg
William Tell Overture – Rossini
Night on Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky
Marche Slave – Tchaikovsky

Can have some quiet parts too… some more favourites that could make the list:
Dance Macabre – Saint-Saëns
Rondo Cappriccioso – Saint-Saëns
Firebird – Stravinsky

Try listening to Two Steps from Hell. Victory, Flight of the Silverbird, Impossible.

taxes? this on loop

and

Adagio for strings, barber
Fanfare for the common man, Copland
Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev

Beethoven 9th/Ode to Joy, The Emperor
Bach concerto for two violins
Vivaldi Stabat Mater (James Bowman)

Beethoven’s 9th symphony, 2nd movement. Most outstanding piece of classical music ever written.

Shostakovich 5, 7 symphonies.

Followed by Mahler 5th.

Nothing beats a bit of nationalism…

Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 – Elgar

But the other marches decent too (2-4)

Nothing beats a bit of nationalism…

Very true and precisely why I like ode to joy.

This’ll do for me:

Mahler’s 5th fits all of your criteria perfectly.

And when you’ve finished, turn on Sibelius’ Finlandia.

sabre dance, khachaturian, was a favourite as a child but I’ve probably not heard it since I was about 7 so it might not be suitable.

Less high-brow but still stirring – theme for Zulu

When i was growing up we had a record player, but literally no records. Some hippy stuff mum had, Johnny Cash Folsom city blues, a bit of Simon and Garfunkel and Holst’s the planets.

As a result I really enjoyed listening to Holst.

How about a bit of Bach, on the Lute.

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Four Seasons – Vivaldi – Winter is my favourite, but might as well stick them all on.

Beethoven’s 5th

Ride of the Valkyries, obviously.

Saint Saens organ symphony

Maybe a wee spot of Carmina burana?

Beaten to Carmina Burana 🙂
Richard Strauss “Also sprach Zarathustra”

Beaten to Carmina Burana, definitely one for HMRC

If you are hold to them you have probably got time to get through the whole of the Ring Cycle

The 1812 Overture. Find a version with proper cannons. Doesn’t get more upbeat than that. The 19th century version of AC/DC.

Other rousing Tchaikovsky works include the 4th movement of his 5th symphony, and the 3rd movements of his 1st piano concerto and violin concerto.

But probably my favourite piece of upbeat, rousing classical music is the 4th movement of Glazunov’s 5th symphony. Always blows me away.

Short ride in a fast machine, John Adams

Finlandia, or the finale from the firebird suite.

Title theme ‘March’ from 1941 by John Williams.

Time, Forward by Sviridov. Soviet motivational musical, just right for doing taxes.

Diner tea, thanks v much for that.

I added this into a spotify playlist by mistake a few weeks ago, rolled round a few times and I wasn’t sure what it was, but kind of liked it.

Oooooo this is a good thread….. More of the obscure stuff please!

The 1812 Overture. Find a version with proper cannons. Doesn’t get more upbeat than that.

Available on Telarc.

I’m really rather fond of Rachmaninov’s work ‘Isles Of The Dead’ one of the best versions also has his Symphonic Dances. Gorgeous stuff

Enjoy…

After that, give this a try; one of the finest classical musicians we’ve ever produced, playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto…

This is so subjective but if you want rousing I would suggest the final movement of Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony.