Must apologize that the Russian Easter Overture (discovered below by adehos_kitchell is similar to, but not exactly, what I was remembering when I recommended the music. It has lighter bells than you may want.
After some poking around among my CDs, the memory is identified (after a false start with "Pictures at an Exhibition," which does have a terrific climax with brass *drowning out* the bells during the Great Gates of Kiev, at least in my CD of it at home), as the climax instead of the 1812 Overture, Tchaikovksy, wherein a cacaphony of bells clangs and peals over the musical portions of the score between the two cannonades at the end. It's all in the last three minutes or so of the piece. This is the London label recording with Antal Dorati conducting the Detroit Symphony, made in the 1970s. The special effects on this piece can vary a good deal according to the philosophy and resources of a given performing group, so not all recordings may have the same realism of bells (or canons).
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Date: 2007-08-14 05:04 am (UTC)After some poking around among my CDs, the memory is identified (after a false start with "Pictures at an Exhibition," which does have a terrific climax with brass *drowning out* the bells during the Great Gates of Kiev, at least in my CD of it at home), as the climax instead of the 1812 Overture, Tchaikovksy, wherein a cacaphony of bells clangs and peals over the musical portions of the score between the two cannonades at the end. It's all in the last three minutes or so of the piece. This is the London label recording with Antal Dorati conducting the Detroit Symphony, made in the 1970s. The special effects on this piece can vary a good deal according to the philosophy and resources of a given performing group, so not all recordings may have the same realism of bells (or canons).