| GeorgBuchner | 04 Feb 2022 3:05 a.m. PST |
I dont know about other folks, but as well as books and film music can also can really inspire me and when it comes to napoleonic things my favorites are : Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony – this one overwhelms me more than the 1812 overture even. Perhaps because the first time I heard I was reading Loraine Peter's Campaigns in Poland 1807 and it has that beautiful Detaille cover art and so now whenever I hear it I just think of the 1806-1807 campaign. composer Karl Jenkin's "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" is so so good Napoleon: A musical odyssey – the soundtrack to a BBC documentary if i recall War and Peace 2016 soundtrack, just beautiful |
| HMS Exeter | 04 Feb 2022 3:31 a.m. PST |
For the Peninsula… anything by Rodrigo
anything from Sharpe |
| GeorgBuchner | 04 Feb 2022 4:06 a.m. PST |
who is Rodrigo? I would be keen to listen to that |
| Gazzola | 04 Feb 2022 5:39 a.m. PST |
Surely for the peninsular actions all you need is recordings of someone strumming a guitar, people clapping over their heads and tap dancing. LOL |
| cavcrazy | 04 Feb 2022 8:18 a.m. PST |
A friend of mine used to play classical music during Napoleonic games, it was very nice. I however prefer Steely Dan….then again I am somewhat uncouth. |
| Greystreak | 04 Feb 2022 8:24 a.m. PST |
Then again, some might say that Steely Dan is "classic". |
| HMS Exeter | 04 Feb 2022 11:26 a.m. PST |
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| SHaT1984 | 04 Feb 2022 1:48 p.m. PST |
Beethoven is the ultimate contemporary… |
| GeorgBuchner | 04 Feb 2022 3:37 p.m. PST |
thanks for the links another tracki am loving recently is this version of Love is a Battlefield by Ngaire, – which was part of the 2016 War and Peace series (though its not on the official soundtrack oddly) YouTube link |
| alan in canberra | 04 Feb 2022 5:45 p.m. PST |
We have previously played the soundtrack from the classic movie Waterloo. |
| GeorgBuchner | 04 Feb 2022 7:16 p.m. PST |
This is not so well know but also quite nice Slaget vid Leipzig, the Battle of Leipzig composed by Franz Berwald, performed by the Malmo Orchestra YouTube link |
| dantheman | 04 Feb 2022 8:28 p.m. PST |
A more detailed question to my way of listening is what Pandora mix works. |
| Gazzola | 06 Feb 2022 11:36 a.m. PST |
I don't really like any music being played if I'm painting, reading or researching something Napoleonic. But I did, at one time, have a recording of Napoleonic marching tunes and battles sounds, taken from a variety of Napoleonic films. It created a nice background atmosphere when wargaming. But sadly, the recording has since disappeared. |
| 14Bore | 07 Feb 2022 3:02 p.m. PST |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.