Need some recommendations

[Strider1002]

I need assistance. My music tastes change often. Right now I'm looking for some good instrumental stuff that resembles classical, but with a bit more... energy. It can be orchestral or more modern instruments (but no synthesizers, bleh). I just feel like instrumental music can express so much more emotion than music with lyrics.

In fact, I remember my parents used to listen to Yanni now and then. Something in that vein, perhaps.

 

[dark.lightning]

Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are both talented composers. Maybe you want to listen to them. If not, you can always listen to John Philip Sousa or many other great composers.
Dark Lightning

 

[Strider1002]

Yeah, it's hard to describe what I'm looking for. Something that's like, a combination of classical and jazz.

 

[mandyangel]

I just feel like instrumental music can express so much more emotion than music with lyrics.

Thats a great line. I love that. I would try YouTube, so much good stuff there, I don't know if you like beach sounds of the ocean but its some pretty relaxing stuff. I given a gift by my uncle into the world of true nature music. I love it now.

 

[Strider1002]

I find that I don't like "New Age" for the most part, but I heard this album when I was younger and I really enjoy it. How would you describe it? Classical? World? I just don't know...

And where can I find more like it?

Yanni - Renegade - Live At The Forbidden City (HD) - YouTube

 

[burnemdawg]

The Eternal Affect. Symphonic Christian rock. If you like emery, relient k, thrice, anberlin, or muse, you'll love them.

 

[Beechwell]

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Zinman · Berliner Philharmoniker - YouTube

Igor Stravinsky: Firebird (Finale) Pierre Boulez / Wiener Philharmoniker - YouTube

philip sparke - the land of the long white cloud - YouTube


Are any of there what you are looking for?

 

[The Theory]

A very broad request, my friend. Lots of things fit that description.

A few things which immediately came to mind which may or may not appeal (not so much the jazz aspect you mentioned):
Steve Reich - The Desert Music - Movement 1 - Fast - YouTube
Steve Reich, a contemporary composer

Explosions In The Sky- Your Hand In Mine - YouTube
Explosions In The Sky, post-rock

If you like either (or both) of those, I can dig up oodles of similar stuff. Actually, if you like the latter, just do a search for "post-rock" and you'll be golden.