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[Martini]

I´m currently arranging a self-made CD compilation with all the classical music that could be heard in Bond films. Maybe we can carry together a complete list?

TSWLM:
- Air on the G string (Bach)
- Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)

MR:
- Romeo and Juliet Overture (Tchaikovsky)
- Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major (op. 28) (Frédéric Chopin)
- Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
- ?

FYEO:
- music during Bibi´s figure skating ?

AVTAK:
- Tchaikovsky music in the whirlpool scene ?

TLD:
- 40th Symphony in G minor (1st movement) (Mozart)
- String Quartet in D major (Alexander Borodin)
- Rococo Variations (Tchaikovsky)
- Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
- Dvořák cello concerto in B minor

QOS:
- Tosca music ?

[007½]

The Tosca music is (mostly) Tre sbrirri una carrozza.

Also Drax plays (or rather doesn't) Frédéric Chopin's Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major (op. 28), "Raindrop")

[Righty007]

This thread tickles my Tchaikovsky.

[Blofeld's Cat]

This thread tickles my Tchaikovsky.

[00Jaws]

I don't know if you can consider the theme from The Magnificent Seven in MR as classical music, yeah...
Same goes for the Lawrence Of Arabia theme in TSWLM

MR: Julius Fucík - Entry of the gladiators
AVTAK: Vivaldi - Four Seasons

[oatesy]

LTK: Beethoven's Bagatelle in A minor - 'Für Elise' is the background music in Professor Joe's love-bunker

Edited by oatesy, 16 July 2009 - 10:32 AM.

[Forward Look]

I don't know if you can consider the theme from The Magnificent Seven in MR as classical music, yeah...
Same goes for the Lawrence Of Arabia theme in TSWLM

They were themes from classic cinema, but does that make them classical music? Then too, does the classical music from 2001: A Space Odyssey make that film a classic picture?

[The Cat]

FYEO:
- music during Bibi´s figure skating ?

That's an original composition by Bill Conti, not classical music.

[Martini]

FYEO:
- music during Bibi´s figure skating ?

That's an original composition by Bill Conti, not classical music.

Didn´t know. Thanks. Thanks also for the other complements.

Regarding the mentioned film themes, I don´t count them as classical music, too. At least they don´t come into my compilation.

[MarcAngeDraco]

Excellent idea for a thread, Martini!

I don't have anything to add right now, but I'll make it a point to be listening carefully for any bits of classical music as I'm watching Bond in the future...

[Aziz Fekkesh]

Great thread, Martini! Please share your comprehensive list at some point.

Here are a couple I remember:

TSWLM - Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major (Bond sees PAs hand in aquarium)
TLD - Johann Strauss Jr.: "Wine, Women and Song" (carriage ride through Vienna)
TLD - Mozart: Symphony #40, mvmnt. 1 (orchestra concert in Bratislava)

[glidrose]

CR'54

 

Chopin: Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko

Prokofiev: Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM Sounds like the road runner on crack but I love it!

[Leo R.]

'Entry of the Gladiators' is in Octopussy, not Moonraker.

[glidrose]

'Entry of the Gladiators' is in Octopussy, not Moonraker.

It's in both films. MR during the pre-title, Jaws flapping his arms.

[glidrose]

Updated in next post.

Edited by glidrose, 07 August 2014 - 11:40 PM.

[glidrose]

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Classical music only. No music from other movies. Okay, I'll let "The Dam Busters March" slip in. I can't force myself to include "Over the Waves" by Juventino Rosas [Octopussy] or "Three Blind Mice" [Dr. No].

 

 

CR'54:
-Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko (Frédéric Chopin)
-Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM (Sergei Prokofiev)
 
CR'67:
-Clair de lune - third movement from "Suite Bergamasque" (Claude Debussy)
-[unverified] The Skye Boat Song (anonymous)
-[unverified] Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
 
DAF:
-The British Grenadiers (anonymous)

TSWLM:
-Air on a G String - second movement in Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K.467, Andante (2nd movement) "Elvira Madigan" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)

MR:
-Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
-Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major, op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
-Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
-Vesti la giubba - from "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

OCT:
-The Belle of Chicago (march) (John Philip Sousa)
-Entry of the Gladiators [a.k.a. "Thunder and Blazes"] (Julius Fucik)
-The Liberty Bell (march) (John Philip Sousa)

NSNA:
-Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
-Piano Quintet In A Major "Die Forelle" (The Trout) - 4th movement Theme with Variations (Franz Schubert)
 
AVTAK:
-Autumn - the Allegro from "The Four Seasons", No. 3 in F major, Op. 8 (Antonio Vivaldi)

-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

-Act II - Swan Lake, Opus 20 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

TLD:
-40th Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 (1st movement) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
-String Quartet #2 in D major - 3rd movement (Andante) (Alexander Borodin)
-Wine, Women and Song (Johann Strauss Jr.)
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel)
-Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Act 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Cello concerto in B minor - 1st movement (Allegro) (Antonín Dvořák)
-Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

LTK:

-Lohengrin - "Bridal Chorus" (Richard Wagner)
-Bagatelle in A minor - "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
GE:
-March Lorraine (Louis Ganne)
-The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (anonymous)
 
TND:
-Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", 2nd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
TWINE:
-[unverified] Flowers of the Forest (anonymous)
 
QOS:
-Tre sbirri una carrozza - from "Tosca" (Giacomo Puccini)
 
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS:
-"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon" (George Frideric Handel)
-La Rejouissance (Rejoicing) from the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (George Frideric Handel)
-The Dam Busters March (Eric Coates)

 

NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner):
-Siegfried (Richard Wagner) "Again there was noise, a huge overpowering burst of music recognizable immediately as Wagner's Siegfried. William was attempting to get across the stage which was a full-sized model of the famous opera house — Richard Wagner's great dream theatre at Bayreuth, built especially for the performance of the composer's gargantuan operas."

[Walecs]

I can't believe that "Rule Britannia" has never appeared in any of the official Bond films.

[ggl]

I can't believe that "Rule Britannia" has never appeared in any of the official Bond films.

In TLD

[Walecs]

 

I can't believe that "Rule Britannia" has never appeared in any of the official Bond films.

In TLD

 

 

Oh, thanks! I hadn't noticed it, I will pay more attention next time I'll watch it.

[Leo R.]

 

'Entry of the Gladiators' is in Octopussy, not Moonraker.

It's in both films. MR during the pre-title, Jaws flapping his arms.

 

 

No it's not, in Moonraker it's just a pastiche of Entry of the Gladiator, it's not the theme itself.

[glidrose]

 

 

'Entry of the Gladiators' is in Octopussy, not Moonraker.

It's in both films. MR during the pre-title, Jaws flapping his arms.

 

 

No it's not, in Moonraker it's just a pastiche of Entry of the Gladiator, it's not the theme itself.

 

 

*sigh*. It's an excerpt, arranged for fewer instruments. Therefore it's the theme.

 

By your standards, what we hear in TSWLM must be a pastiche of Chopin's nocturne and not the theme itself 'cos Chopin didn't orchestrate it and apparently not all the notes are the same as in the original.

[glidrose]

Dr. No: -The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel). Bond hums the tune while Moneypenny says: "Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You never take me to dinner looking like this, James. You never take me to dinner. Period."

 

TEMPORARY LIST ONLY. Check further down for updates.

 

 

Classical music only. No music from other movies. Okay, I'll let "The Dam Busters March" slip in. I can't force myself to include "Over the Waves" by Juventino Rosas [Octopussy] or "Three Blind Mice" [Dr. No].

 

 

CR'54:
-Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko (Frédéric Chopin)
-Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM (Sergei Prokofiev)
 
CR'67:
-Clair de lune - third movement from "Suite Bergamasque" (Claude Debussy)
-[unverified] The Skye Boat Song (anonymous)
-[unverified] Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
 
DAF:
-The British Grenadiers (anonymous)

TSWLM:
-Air on a G String - second movement in Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K.467, Andante (2nd movement) "Elvira Madigan" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)

MR:
-Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
-Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major, op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
-Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
-Vesti la giubba - from "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

OCT:
-The Belle of Chicago (march) (John Philip Sousa)
-Entry of the Gladiators [a.k.a. "Thunder and Blazes"] (Julius Fucik)
-The Liberty Bell (march) (John Philip Sousa)

NSNA:
-Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
-Piano Quintet In A Major "Die Forelle" (The Trout) - 4th movement Theme with Variations (Franz Schubert)
 
AVTAK:
-Autumn - the Allegro from "The Four Seasons", No. 3 in F major, Op. 8 (Antonio Vivaldi)

-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

-Act II - Swan Lake, Opus 20 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

TLD:
-40th Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 (1st movement) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
-String Quartet #2 in D major - 3rd movement (Andante) (Alexander Borodin)
-Wine, Women and Song (Johann Strauss Jr.)
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel)
-Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Act 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Cello concerto in B minor - 1st movement (Allegro) (Antonín Dvořák)
-Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

LTK:

-Lohengrin - "Bridal Chorus" (Richard Wagner)
-Bagatelle in A minor - "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
GE:
-March Lorraine (Louis Ganne)
-The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (anonymous)
 
TND:
-Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", 2nd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
TWINE:
-[unverified] Flowers of the Forest (anonymous)
 
QOS:
-Tre sbirri una carrozza - from "Tosca" (Giacomo Puccini)
 
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS:
-"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon" (George Frideric Handel)
-La Rejouissance (Rejoicing) from the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (George Frideric Handel)
-The Dam Busters March (Eric Coates)

 

NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner):
-Siegfried (Richard Wagner) "Again there was noise, a huge overpowering burst of music recognizable immediately as Wagner's Siegfried. William was attempting to get across the stage which was a full-sized model of the famous opera house — Richard Wagner's great dream theatre at Bayreuth, built especially for the performance of the composer's gargantuan operas."

[glidrose]

Spectre:
-Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R. 608: IV. Cum dederit (Andante) – Andreas Scholl, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
-Una Furtiva Lagrima (A Furtive Tear) by Gaetano Donizetti from the opera 'L'elisir D'amore' – Geoff Love & His Orchestra
-Verdi: libiamo Ne Lieti Calici (La Traviata/act 1) – Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, The London Opera Chorus, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

We hear the first inside Monica Bellucci's villa. I believe we hear the third on the old Italian driver's car radio during the car chase. Not sure about the second. Bellucci lets slip a furtive tear in her villa. So does Seydoux, either inside her clinic or in her father's hidden L'Americain compartment.

 

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Classical music only. No music from other movies. Okay, I'll let "The Dam Busters March" slip in. I can't force myself to include "Over the Waves" by Juventino Rosas [Octopussy] or "Three Blind Mice" [Dr. No].
 
 
CR'54:
-Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko (Frédéric Chopin)
-Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM (Sergei Prokofiev)

Dr. No:
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel). Bond hums the tune while Moneypenny says: "Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You never take me to dinner looking like this, James. You never take me to dinner. Period."
 
CR'67:
-Clair de lune - third movement from "Suite Bergamasque" (Claude Debussy)
-[unverified] The Skye Boat Song (anonymous)
-[unverified] Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
 
DAF:
-The British Grenadiers (anonymous)

TSWLM:
-Air on a G String - second movement in Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K.467, Andante (2nd movement) "Elvira Madigan" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)

MR:
-Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
-Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major, op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
-Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
-Vesti la giubba - from "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

OCT:
-The Belle of Chicago (march) (John Philip Sousa)
-Entry of the Gladiators [a.k.a. "Thunder and Blazes"] (Julius Fucik)
-The Liberty Bell (march) (John Philip Sousa)

NSNA:
-Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
-Piano Quintet In A Major "Die Forelle" (The Trout) - 4th movement Theme with Variations (Franz Schubert)
 
AVTAK:
-Autumn - the Allegro from "The Four Seasons", No. 3 in F major, Op. 8 (Antonio Vivaldi)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
-Act II - Swan Lake, Opus 20 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

TLD:
-40th Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 (1st movement) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
-String Quartet #2 in D major - 3rd movement (Andante) (Alexander Borodin)
-Wine, Women and Song (Johann Strauss Jr.)
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel)
-Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Act 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Cello concerto in B minor - 1st movement (Allegro) (Antonín Dvořák)
-Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

LTK:
-Lohengrin - "Bridal Chorus" (Richard Wagner)
-Bagatelle in A minor - "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
GE:
-March Lorraine (Louis Ganne)
-The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (anonymous)
 
TND:
-Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", 2nd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
TWINE:
-[unverified] Flowers of the Forest (anonymous)
 
QOS:
-Tre sbirri una carrozza - from "Tosca" (Giacomo Puccini)
 
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS:
-"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon" (George Frideric Handel)
-La Rejouissance (Rejoicing) from the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (George Frideric Handel)
-The Dam Busters March (Eric Coates)
 
NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner):
-Siegfried (Richard Wagner) "Again there was noise, a huge overpowering burst of music recognizable immediately as Wagner's Siegfried. William was attempting to get across the stage which was a full-sized model of the famous opera house — Richard Wagner's great dream theatre at Bayreuth, built especially for the performance of the composer's gargantuan operas."

[mattjoes]

TSWLM - Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major (Bond sees PAs hand in aquarium)

I love the film version of this piece. The backing is played on piano, but the melody is played on violins.

By any chance, does anyone know an orchestral recording of it, with a similar arrangement?

[glidrose]

TSWLM - Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major (Bond sees PAs hand in aquarium)

I love the film version of this piece. The backing is played on piano, but the melody is played on violins.

By any chance, does anyone know an orchestral recording of it, with a similar arrangement?

I can only find a 28 second clip on youtube entitled "Bond Meets Stromberg".

[mattjoes]

Thanks, although I already have the film version. I was just wondering if there exists a full length, orchestral version of the piece (the film version is just over a minute long).

[glidrose]

Believe it or not but the most often heard piece is the "Ice Skater's Waltz". Two films and one novel.




UPDATES

Books:

OHMSS (Ian Fleming):
-Ice Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Skater's Waltz"] (Émile Waldteufel) [chapter 17: "There were raised tiers of wooden benches round the big square rink. Thank God for a chance to sit down! There was an empty seat on the aisle in the bottom row at rink level. Bond stumbled down the wooden steps and fell into it. He righted himself, said ' Sorry,' and put his head in his hands. The girl beside him, part of a group of harlequins, Wild Westerners, and pirates, drew her spangled skirt away, whispered something to her neighbour. Bond didn't care. They wouldn't throw him out on a night like this. Through the loud-speakers the violins sobbed into 'The Skaters' Waltz'. Above them the voice of the MC called, 'Last dance, ladies and gentlemen. And then all out on to the rink and join hands for the grand finale."]

 

The Living Daylights (Ian Fleming):

-Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin) ["From somewhere inside the Ministry there came the familiar sounds of an orchestra tuning up – the strings tuning their instruments to single notes on the piano, the sharp blare of individual wood-winds – then a pause and then the collective crash of melody as the whole orchestra threw itself competently, so far as Bond could judge, into the opening bars of what even to James Bond was vaguely familiar. ‘The Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor,’ said Captain Sender succinctly. ‘Anyway, six o’clock coming up,’ and then, urgently, ‘Hey! Right-hand bottom of the four windows! Watch out!'"]

 

-Choral Dance #17 from Prince Igor [a.k.a. Polovtsian Dance No. 17] (Alexander Borodin) ["Then he had two large whiskies on the rocks in quick succession, while he waited, his ears pricked, for the now muffled sound of the orchestra to stop. When at eight o’clock it did (with the expert comment from Sender, ‘Borodin’s Prince Igor, Choral Dance Number 17, I think,’) he said to Sender, who had been getting off his report in garbled language to the Head of Station, ‘Just going to have another look. I’ve rather taken to that tall blonde with the ’cello.’"]

 

 

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Classical music only. No music from other movies. Okay, I'll let "The Dam Busters March" slip in. I can't force myself to include "Over the Waves" by Juventino Rosas [Octopussy] or "Three Blind Mice" [Dr. No].
 

FILMS:
 
CR'54:
-Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko (Frédéric Chopin)
-Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM (Sergei Prokofiev)

Dr. No:
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel). Bond hums the tune while Moneypenny says: "Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You never take me to dinner looking like this, James. You never take me to dinner. Period."
 
CR'67:
-Clair de lune - third movement from "Suite Bergamasque" (Claude Debussy)
-[unverified] The Skye Boat Song (anonymous)
-[unverified] Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
 
DAF:
-The British Grenadiers (anonymous)

TSWLM:
-Air on a G String - second movement in Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K.467, Andante (2nd movement) "Elvira Madigan" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)

MR:
-Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
-Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major, op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
-Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
-Vesti la giubba - from "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

OCT:
-The Belle of Chicago (march) (John Philip Sousa)
-Entry of the Gladiators [a.k.a. "Thunder and Blazes"] (Julius Fucik)
-The Liberty Bell (march) (John Philip Sousa)

NSNA:
-Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
-Piano Quintet In A Major "Die Forelle" (The Trout) - 4th movement Theme with Variations (Franz Schubert)
 
AVTAK:
-Autumn - the Allegro from "The Four Seasons", No. 3 in F major, Op. 8 (Antonio Vivaldi)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
-Act II - Swan Lake, Opus 20 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

TLD:
-40th Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 (1st movement) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
-String Quartet #2 in D major - 3rd movement (Andante) (Alexander Borodin)
-Wine, Women and Song (Johann Strauss Jr.)
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel)
-Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Act 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Cello concerto in B minor - 1st movement (Allegro) (Antonín Dvořák)
-Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

LTK:
-Lohengrin - "Bridal Chorus" (Richard Wagner)
-Bagatelle in A minor - "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
GE:
-March Lorraine (Louis Ganne)
-The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (anonymous)
 
TND:
-Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", 2nd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
TWINE:
-[unverified] Flowers of the Forest (anonymous)
 
QOS:
-Tre sbirri una carrozza - from "Tosca" (Giacomo Puccini)
 
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS:
-"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon" (George Frideric Handel)
-La Rejouissance (Rejoicing) from the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (George Frideric Handel)
-The Dam Busters March (Eric Coates)

Spectre:
-Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R. 608: IV. Cum dederit (Andante) – Andreas Scholl, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
-Una Furtiva Lagrima (A Furtive Tear) by Gaetano Donizetti from the opera 'L'elisir D'amore' – Geoff Love & His Orchestra
-Verdi: libiamo Ne Lieti Calici (La Traviata/act 1) – Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, The London Opera Chorus, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

We hear the first inside Monica Bellucci's villa. I believe we hear the third on the old Italian driver's car radio during the car chase. Not sure about the second. Bellucci lets slip a furtive tear in her villa. So does Seydoux, either inside her clinic.
 

BOOKS:
 
NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner):
-Siegfried (Richard Wagner) "Again there was noise, a huge overpowering burst of music recognizable immediately as Wagner's Siegfried. William was attempting to get across the stage which was a full-sized model of the famous opera house — Richard Wagner's great dream theatre at Bayreuth, built especially for the performance of the composer's gargantuan operas."

[glidrose]

UPDATED on 29 August to include Wood's James Bond and Moonraker

UPDATES

The opera "Tosca" ties with "Ice Skater's Waltz" for most mentions: two books and one film.

Films:

TLD:
-Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz (Johann Strauss II)


Books:

JAMES BOND AND MOONRAKER (Christopher Wood)
-unidentified Frederic Chopin waltz ["Bond nodded and followed the butler into the corridor. Cavendish led the way along the wide corridor and down a different but scarcely less imposing flight of steps to the one by which Bond had mounted. The sound of someone playing a Chopin waltz wafted up to meet them. Bond wondered who the pianist was. The technique was nearly flawless. Only in the matter of expression did the pianist leave something to be desired. There was an involuntary holding back; an inability to surrender completely to the liberated spirit of the music. Cavendish crossed a hallway and the sound of the music grew louder. It was coming from the room they were approaching and stopped dramatically an instant before Cavendish swung open the door. 'Mr Bond, sir.' Bond stepped forward as a bearded figure rose from a distant piano."]


LICENCE RENEWED (John Gardner)
-Symphony #5 (Beethoven) ["On the far side of this hatchway, the fuselage seemed to narrow and the carpet disappeared. The section ran back down the fuselage for about forty feet, its sides crammed from deck to the upper bulkheads with banks of electronic equipment housed in metal units and high cabinets. Towards the centre there was a recess on either side, with two men in clean white coveralls sitting in each, at complex control consoles. As Murik's party passed Bond asked loudly if they could get Beethoven's Fifth. He was rewarded with a jab from Caber, and a filthy look shot at him by Murik."]

Licence Renewed also contains two references to unidentified Mozart compositions and name-drops Bach and Bartok.


NOBODY LIVES FOR EVER (John Gardner)
-lots of Mozart references: part of the book is set in Mozart's birthplace of Salzburg, Austria. Bond's housekeeper May is recuperating at the Klinik Mozart. Sukie adores Mozart but then so does the treacherous Steve Quinn.

-Piano Concerto No. 20, first movement (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) [Bond discovers the murdered and mutilated Inspektor Heinrich Osten, known as Der Haken a.k.a. The Hook. "From across the street, a group of rehearsing musicians began to play. Mozart, naturally; Bond thought it was the sombre opening of the Piano Concerto No. 20, but his knowledge of Mozart was limited. Then farther down the street a jazz tumpeter, a busker probably, started up. It was an odd counterpoint, the Concerto mingling with the 1930's Big House Blues. Bond wondered if it were mere coincidence."]

-Silent Night, Holy Night (a.k.a. "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") (Franz Xaver Gruber) ["Five minutes later, having collected the car from a smiling representative, Bond was driving skilfully out of Salzburg on the mountain road to the south, passing in the suburbs the strange Anif water-tower which rises like an English manor house from the middle of a pond. He continued almost as far as the town of Hallein, which had begun as an island bastion in the middle of the Salzach and which has been made famous as the birthplace of Franz-Xavier Gruber, the composer of Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht."]


NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner)
-Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) [Bond has figured out who Dragonpol's targets will be. "Think of La Scala, James. Then think about who KTK could be.' 'I already have. Milan equals one of the greatest opera houses in the world La Scala-and there's only one KTK connected with opera. The beautiful Dame Kiri Te Kanawa...' 'Quite, and she's nowhere near Milan at the moment, though she will be in December. [...] Dame Kiri's going to be in Milan for the second week in December doing three performances of Tosca, and making one charity appearance in the Cathedral, on the night of the thirteenth."]

In Never Send Flowers Bond and Fredericka join a tour and look at statues of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi in the foyer.


COLD (John Gardner)
-several Puccini references. Part of the book is set in Tuscany near Puccini's villa where the composer's body is entombed - according to Bond it sports a wonderful statue of the Maestro.
-La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini)
-Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
-Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) ["They had left the main road, and, in a matter of minutes, the Rolls swept into the small square adjacent to the lake. He saw the house, railed off and protected by shrubbery. There Puccini had written La Boheme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly. His bones now lay within the house which had known some of the composer's great moments, and the one terrible scandal - the suicide of a maid who was said to be pregnant by him. Yet, this small community contained a number of men and women who had the Puccini look. The statue still stood looking across the small square: a life-sized Puccini in overcoat and snappy trilby."]

TEMPORARY LIST ONLY. Check further down the thread for updates.

 
Classical music only. No music from other movies. Okay, I'll let "The Dam Busters March" slip in. I can't force myself to include "Over the Waves" by Juventino Rosas [Octopussy] or "Three Blind Mice" [Dr. No].

Believe it or not but the most often heard piece is the "Ice Skater's Waltz". Two films and one novel.



FILMS:
 
CR'54:
-Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D Minor (The Storm) https://www.youtube....h?v=QHcEH2Rliko (Frédéric Chopin)
-Piano sonata #7, 3rd movement http://youtu.be/5rfle8wSwJM (Sergei Prokofiev)

Dr. No:
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel). Bond hums the tune while Moneypenny says: "Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You never take me to dinner looking like this, James. You never take me to dinner. Period."
 
CR'67:
-Clair de lune - third movement from "Suite Bergamasque" (Claude Debussy)
-[unverified] The Skye Boat Song (anonymous)
-[unverified] Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
 
DAF:
-The British Grenadiers (anonymous)

TSWLM:
-Air on a G String - second movement in Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K.467, Andante (2nd movement) "Elvira Madigan" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)

MR:
-Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
-Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major, op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
-Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
-Vesti la giubba - from "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
-Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Johann Strauss II)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

OCT:
-The Belle of Chicago (march) (John Philip Sousa)
-Entry of the Gladiators [a.k.a. "Thunder and Blazes"] (Julius Fucik)
-The Liberty Bell (march) (John Philip Sousa)

NSNA:
-Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
-Piano Quintet In A Major "Die Forelle" (The Trout) - 4th movement Theme with Variations (Franz Schubert)
 
AVTAK:
-Autumn - the Allegro from "The Four Seasons", No. 3 in F major, Op. 8 (Antonio Vivaldi)
-Romeo and Juliet Overture (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
-Act II - Swan Lake, Opus 20 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

TLD:
-40th Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 (1st movement) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Rule Britannia (Thomas Augustine Arne)
-String Quartet #2 in D major - 3rd movement (Andante) (Alexander Borodin)
-Wine, Women and Song (Johann Strauss Jr.)
-The Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Ice Skater's Waltz] (Émile Waldteufel)
-Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Act 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Cello concerto in B minor - 1st movement (Allegro) (Antonín Dvořák)
-Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

LTK:
-Lohengrin - "Bridal Chorus" (Richard Wagner)
-Bagatelle in A minor - "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
GE:
-March Lorraine (Louis Ganne)
-The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (anonymous)
 
TND:
-Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", 2nd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
 
TWINE:
-[unverified] Flowers of the Forest (anonymous)
 
QOS:
-Tre sbirri una carrozza - from "Tosca" (Giacomo Puccini)
 
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS:
-"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon" (George Frideric Handel)
-La Rejouissance (Rejoicing) from the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (George Frideric Handel)
-The Dam Busters March (Eric Coates)

Spectre:
-Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R. 608: IV. Cum dederit (Andante) – Andreas Scholl, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
-Una Furtiva Lagrima (A Furtive Tear) by Gaetano Donizetti from the opera 'L'elisir D'amore' – Geoff Love & His Orchestra
-Verdi: libiamo Ne Lieti Calici (La Traviata/act 1) – Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, The London Opera Chorus, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

We hear the first inside Monica Bellucci's villa. I believe we hear the third on the old Italian driver's car radio during the car chase. Not sure about the second. Bellucci lets slip a furtive tear in her villa. So does Seydoux, either inside her clinic.
 
BOOKS:

OHMSS (Ian Fleming):
-Ice Skater's Waltz [a.k.a. "Les Patineurs" and "The Skater's Waltz"] (Émile Waldteufel) [chapter 17: "There were raised tiers of wooden benches round the big square rink. Thank God for a chance to sit down! There was an empty seat on the aisle in the bottom row at rink level. Bond stumbled down the wooden steps and fell into it. He righted himself, said ' Sorry,' and put his head in his hands. The girl beside him, part of a group of harlequins, Wild Westerners, and pirates, drew her spangled skirt away, whispered something to her neighbour. Bond didn't care. They wouldn't throw him out on a night like this. Through the loud-speakers the violins sobbed into 'The Skaters' Waltz'. Above them the voice of the MC called, 'Last dance, ladies and gentlemen. And then all out on to the rink and join hands for the grand finale."]
 
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (Ian Fleming):
-Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin) ["From somewhere inside the Ministry there came the familiar sounds of an orchestra tuning up – the strings tuning their instruments to single notes on the piano, the sharp blare of individual wood-winds – then a pause and then the collective crash of melody as the whole orchestra threw itself competently, so far as Bond could judge, into the opening bars of what even to James Bond was vaguely familiar. ‘The Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor,’ said Captain Sender succinctly. ‘Anyway, six o’clock coming up,’ and then, urgently, ‘Hey! Right-hand bottom of the four windows! Watch out!'"]
 
-Choral Dance #17 from Prince Igor [a.k.a. Polovtsian Dance No. 17] (Alexander Borodin) ["Then he had two large whiskies on the rocks in quick succession, while he waited, his ears pricked, for the now muffled sound of the orchestra to stop. When at eight o’clock it did (with the expert comment from Sender, ‘Borodin’s Prince Igor, Choral Dance Number 17, I think,’) he said to Sender, who had been getting off his report in garbled language to the Head of Station, ‘Just going to have another look. I’ve rather taken to that tall blonde with the ’cello.’"]

 
NEVER SEND FLOWERS (John Gardner):
-Siegfried (Richard Wagner) "Again there was noise, a huge overpowering burst of music recognizable immediately as Wagner's Siegfried. William was attempting to get across the stage which was a full-sized model of the famous opera house — Richard Wagner's great dream theatre at Bayreuth, built especially for the performance of the composer's gargantuan operas."

Edited by glidrose, 30 August 2016 - 12:22 AM.

[Dustin]

Shows that Gardner was a classics buff. It occurred to me when I first read them, only I know too little about the matter to really spot all the references. Thanks for shedding some light on this.

[glidrose]

Shows that Gardner was a classics buff. It occurred to me when I first read them, only I know too little about the matter to really spot all the references. Thanks for shedding some light on this.

Gardner was definitely a big classical music fan. And a big Gustav Mahler fan. Many of his books mention Mahler. Seem to recall JG saying he put a Mahler reference in his first Bond novel but somebody at IFP/Glidrose excised it. He may have tried sneaking it back in. If so, that same someone again excised it. Never mind Tosca, Mahler isn't for everyone. Kinsley Amis, for one, loathed Mahler's music. "Mahler lacks talent even more spectacularly than he lacks genius."

In an interview with Graham Rye's 007 Magazine, JG said "I always use music to blow out the silence that always surrounds a writer when he is working alone. It is usually a film score, but I also have an extensive collection of classical records which I listen to seriously. I thought stupidly that it would be easy. All I had to do was to play the Bond scores and everything would fall into place, but the first morning I sat down, and I think I started out with Goldfinger and went through the whole lot and got snow blind looking at white sheets of paper. It was no good because I had already wiped the films from my mind. On the second day I had to think of something else and it turned out to be Wagner's Ring Cycle, which I knew very well. So I wrote the first one to Wagner and the second mainly to [Dmitri] Shostakovitch and [William] Walton." (history1.pdf)

Gardner considered his 1993 novel "Maestro" his masterwork. It's about a conductor looking back on his life who has spied for all sides - Allies, Russians, Nazis and even got mixed up with Al Capone in Chicago. Lots of classical music name-dropping in this one. Gardner was very bitter how his UK publishers dumped the book. "Maestro [took] ten years in preparation and one year in the writing. Then in the UK it was abominably badly published."

You can read an extract at http://extracts.panm...n=9781447238911

I've also re-edited and updated my last full list with Wood's James Bond and Moonraker.