Beethoven's 'Ode To Joy' has topped this year's Classic 100: Feel Good countdown, but music for the screen stole the show with 25 pieces for the screen making the top 100.
Beethoven has topped this year's Classic 100 : Feel Good countdown with his Symphony No. 9, including the "Ode To Joy" anthem.
Zayn from Meanjin/Brisbane was listening solo, but said they were "sharing an immense feeling of connectedness to everyone listening.""We are having a lazy pyjama day, and my two-year-old just picked up her pencil and conducted that last number," said one listener.Not wanting to miss a minute, a footy-lover was watching the game with a soundtrack of the Classic 100: Feel Good, while another was blow drying their hair while wearing an earbud headphone and dancing away.
Other Australian screen entries included Nigel Westlake's score for the 1991 documentary Antarctica, and the score for the Australian Chamber Orchestra's River, with music by Kalkadunga man William Barton, Richard Tognetti and Piers Burbrook de Vere.The highest placed Australian was Elena Kats-Chernin for Wild Swans, which features Eliza Aria, one of the best-known Australian compositions globally, thanks to its inclusion in a commercial for a big UK bank in the 2000s.
Other feel-good favourites also had strong connections to the screen, such as French impressionist composer Debussy's Clair de lune. The piece has appeared in films as varied as Ocean's Eleven and Twilight and underpinned the score for the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once.Holst's The Planets came in second and was the most popular choice for voters aged 35-54.
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