It seems fitting that such an epic piece of music covers the entirety of a lifespan. German-born Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. The music is also used at the very end of the film, in another strange scene that shows childbirth, life, and death in the span of about a minute ( warning: spoilers, childbirth, and nudity). Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 7 should be in every orchestras repertoire. When the music begins, we see a giant head pass across the screen, flying of its own volition towards some unknown location above the credits, and you just know that something amazingly weird is about to happen. This beautiful arrangement of the second movement from Beethovens Symphony No. The second movement of BeethovenвЂ™s 7th Symphony is used in Zardoz at the very beginning, where it is sung in an operatic tone. Here are 10 very different recordings of this great work. Beyond its extraordinary sense of rhythm, other commentators credit the Seventh as romantic, in the sense of swift and unexpected changes and contrasts. Both dramatic and dance-like, the Symphony was put to stirring use in The King's Speech. 200 years ago on 8 December 1813, Beethoven's Symphony No.7 was premiered. Zardoz is a film that you almost canвЂ™t believe youвЂ™re watching when youвЂ™re watching it, because it is so ridiculous and itвЂ™s impossible to tell if it takes itself seriously. Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A: The 10 best recordings. My somewhat ironic love for the Sean Connery science fiction nightmare film Zardoz(1974) is quite well-known around here.

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