Hard edged, brutal classical music
 

What's your favorite heavy stuff? no pop music, so Mozart and Vivaldi are out :laughing:

I'll start with the maverick, Edgard Varese:



This is a tense work with a lot of outbursts

Here's a very aggressive orchestral miniature, from the god of dissonance: Iannis Xenakis

The kind of Ligeti you don't normally see:

If you asked me who the God of Dissonance is I'd probably answer Penderecki

Penderecki is not really that percussive often, his works usually develop over a longer time span, though I guess the Symphony no 1 and Partita for harpsichord & chamber orchestra might count

A few weeks ago a spent the whole day listening to his stuff. He did all kinds of stuff. I knew he was prolific but I was still surprised.

This too:

HPSCHD is very cacophonous