Classical interlude - A little something musical for you all.
 

Perhaps to calm things down a little in GT, I offer you some Ralf Vaughan Williams

The quality is not always great (which is a shame) but you get the idea. Not entirely sure of the dates on some of these, or even who is performing them, although you can tell some of the amateur ensembles (who aren't bad for all that).
Some of my favourite pieces, old and new performances:

new
The lark Ascending pt1 bbc concert orchestra (janine jansen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcuteYm-EA

The lark Ascending pt2 bbc concert orchestra (janine jansen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOOQB0uA5Q&NR=1

old
The lark Ascending pt1 adrian boult/LPO (jean pougnet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqkn__mWzo

The lark Ascending pt2 adrian boult/LPO (jean pougnet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpzTIfvnfQ&NR=1

date?
Tallis Fantasia (extract) anthony collins/LSO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSyjEEcmnQ
?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU

the fifties (Barbirolli's "Sinfonia Antartica" mono recording was made in September 1953 - according to youtube comments)
Sinfonia Antarctica
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rmfGqdP5M
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XrnN2m12w8
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8mGIg0VRi0
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JLnK2DGhE
5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV405rO3x4U

new (is hard to get better (more professional?) recordings of this)
Serenade to music
pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7WH-HwkEMM
pt2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBulW8pVq4

O clap your hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncLSZQuFgI

A Sea Symphony (one for subsim)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMckYZT-8g

Don't listen to them all at once now :arrgh!:

Sinfonia Antartica is awesome :rock: and Tallis Fantasia is absolutely breathtaking. For me popular music can never match the sheer beauty and emotion that classical music can express.

But I think Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet, 2nd movement is more fitting for the atmosphere here. :DL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvTT...9B2B86&index=2

Some of my personal favorites:

Sergej Rachmaninoff
- op.39 No.2 (The Sea and the Shearwaters ... err I mean Seagulls :DL):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1zINasTlw

- op.34 No.14 (Vocalise): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIq-1iILP5Q
(there are dozens of versions of this piece - I recommend the version orchestrated by the master himself)

- op.29 (Isle of the Dead):
- Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bszAvKbO3Zk
- Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvDAgsmpqA

Everything pretty soothing, or rather melancholy. Enjoy.

Some of my favourites:


Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Op. 18 No. 2 - Mvt 1 (Pt 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmN65gLNLDE

(Part two of above)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q717...eature=related

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Georgian War March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xANNw6a09v0

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov:Procession of the Sardar for Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQYBfdNEb8

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgunF7KbgmY

(Part two of above)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6LY1...eature=related

I vow to thee my country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCt8s...eature=related

The British Grenadiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLc-bvcdNTw

The Black Bear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrUs5AfrNjc

And my all time favourite:

Gustav Holst - Mars: The Bringer of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk

Now for something a bit different

Rodrigo - Fantasia para un gentilhombre 1-4
Featuring, Andre Segovia
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...drigo+fantasia

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Prelude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw

Gee got a certain theme going there Oberon or what? :DL