Good luck finding the right bells, anyway. I wish I could track down the Great Gate at Kiev I thought I remembered, which had much stronger bells over the brass, but it's either an artifact of memory or inaccessible on vinyl. I didn't set up my turntable again after I moved, and there are times I regret it.
Two other suggestions for thought: First, Boris Godonov, Mussorgsky, has a famously ominous scenes with bells (the "clock" scene). Second, there's a really astonishing short sequence of tuned anvils in Das Rheingold, Wagner, suitable for freezing anyone's marrow. These are bell-like, if not bells, and they are certainly intended as both aggressive and ominous. The short passage (about a minute) takes place during the transition from Scene 2 to Scene 3.
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Date: 2007-08-14 05:43 am (UTC)Two other suggestions for thought: First, Boris Godonov, Mussorgsky, has a famously ominous scenes with bells (the "clock" scene).
Second, there's a really astonishing short sequence of tuned anvils in Das Rheingold, Wagner, suitable for freezing anyone's marrow. These are bell-like, if not bells, and they are certainly intended as both aggressive and ominous. The short passage (about a minute) takes place during the transition from Scene 2 to Scene 3.