This is music I find to be inspiring, mainly divided into three parts: Romantic / folkish, martial songs, and modern re-interpretations and cheesy pop.

My Music

I used to play the piano and I recorded these after a long break. The quality ain’t great but I can’t be bothered to go back to it.

• Dumia (Naji Hakim)
• Questa Notte (Ludovico Einaudi)
• Valse (Chopin)

Romanticism, destruction of the order of appearances

• Carmina Burana O Fortuna (Orff)
• Dies Irae (Mozart)
• Эх, Настасья (Eh Nastasya – Russian folk song)
• Эй, ухнем (Song of Volga Boatmen)
• Erbarme Dich (Bach)
• Eroica pt.3 (Beethoven)
• Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 (Chopin)
• Farewell Polonaise (Oginsky)
• Funeral March (Chopin)
• Greensleeves (Henry VIII ?)
• The Hebrides: Fingal’s Cave (Mendelssohn)
• Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)
• Die Internationale
• Коробейники (The Peddlers – Russian folk song)
• La Traviata, Brindisi Drinking Song (Verdi)
• Lacrimosa (Mozart)
• Má vlast (Smetana)
• Marcha Toreador – Carmen (Bizet)
• Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)
• Naji Hakim improvisations
• Nutcracker – March (Tchaikovsky)
• Nutcracker – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
• Nutcracker – Arabian Dance (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Concerto No.1, Mv.1 (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Concerto No.1, Mv.3 (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Concerto No.2, Mv.1 (Chopin)
• Piano Concerto No.3 in D Minor, Mv.1 (Rachmaninov)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor, Mv.1 (Chopin)
• Polovtsian Dances, Prince Igor (Borodin)
• Полюшко Поле (Polyushka Pole)
• Полюшко Поле (Origa version)
• Prelude in G Minor (Rachmaninov)
• Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
• Sabre Dance (Khachaturian)
• The Sacrifice, The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
• Scherzo No.1 Op. 30 (Chopin)
• The Snowstorm Romance (Sviridov)
• Souvenir de Florence, Mv.3 (Tchaikovsky)
• Светит месяц (The Moon is Shining – Russian folk song)
• Священный Байкал (Holy Baikal)
• Swan Lake Prologue (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake Act II Scene 1 (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: Lake in the Moonlight (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: The Swan Princess (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake Act II Entrance of Odette (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: Four Swans (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: Spanish Dance (Tchaikovsky)
• Swan Lake: Finale (Tchaikovsky)
• Symphony No.7 “Leningrad”, Mv.1 (Shostakovich)
• Symphony No.9 From the New World, Mv.1 (Dvořák)
• Тройка (Trio – Russian folk song)
• Tetris Тройка (sang in a cute voice)
• Turkish March (Mozart)
• Выйду на улицу (Go out to the streets – Russian folk song)
• Violin Concerto E Minor, Op.64, Mv.1 (Mendelssohn)
• The Young Prince and Princess, Scheherazade 3 (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Surrealism, dada, the absurd, and political nihilism, the destruction of the order of meaning

• 1945 Victory Parade in Color
• A Soldier of that Day (DPRK)
• Амурские волны (The Waves of the Amur)
• Армия моя (My Army)
• Азовская партизанская (Azov Partisans)
• Ballade of a Soldier
• Белая Армия, черный Барон (White Army, Black Baron)
• Чапаев-герой (Chapaev the Hero!)
• Черноглазая казачка
• Deutschland über alles (German pre-Nazi national anthem)
• Die Braune Kompanie (The Brown Company)
• Dear Leader Kim Jong Il The Great Brilliant Commander (DPRK)
• Deutschland erwache (Germany Awake!)
• Don’t Ask My Name (DPRK)
• Es zittern die morschen Knochen (The rotten bones are trembling)
• Дороги (The Roads)
• День Победы (Victory Day)
• День Победы (Victory Day) – 2
• День Победы (Victory Day) – 3
• Echelon’s song (Song for Voroshilov)
• Если завтра война (If there’s war tomorrow)
• Гимн лётчиков палубной авиации (Hymn of Soviet Naval Aviation)
• Гімн ОУН-УПА (Hymn of Ukrainian Insurgent Army)
• Гимн РВСН (Hymn of Russian Strategic Rocket Forces)
• Гимн РОА (Hymn of Russian Liberation Army)
• Hatkiva (Israeli National Anthem)
• Horst Wessel Lied (Nazi martyr song)
• Horst Wessel Lied (as part of Nazi anthem)
• И вновь продолжается бой
• In The Forest, Near The Front
• Independence March (Turkish National Anthem)
• Kampflied gegen den Faschismus (anti-fascist fight song)
• Катюша (Katyusha)
• Казаки (Cossacks Song)
• Казачья (The Rider’s March)
• Когда поют солдаты (When the Soldiers Sing)
• Конармейская (Song of Red Cavalry)
• Левый марш (Left March)
• Luftwaffe March
• Марш Буденного (Budenny’s March)
• Марш защитников Москвы (March of the Defenders of Moscow)
• Марш советских танкистов (March of Soviet Tankists)
• Марш сталинской артиллерии (March of Stalin’s Artillery)
• Мы за ценой не постоим
• Несокрушимая и легендарная (Legendary and Ever Victorious)
• No Motherland Without You
• Наша гвардия (The Guard Song)
• Одна Победа (One Victory)
• Our Holy Russia (Russian National Anthem)
• Ой, Днипро, Днипро, ты широк, могуч (Song of the Dnieper)
• Ой, туманы мои, растуманы (Soviet partisan song)
• Песня о Сталине (Song about Stalin)
• PLA Women Army March
• Принимай нас, Суоми – красавица (Take us in, Finnish girl)
• Прощание славянки (Farewell Slavyanka – Red Army)
• Прощание славянки (Farewell Slavyanka – Tsarist Army 1912 original)
• Прощание славянки (Farewell Slavyanka – White Army)
• Ракеты всегда на посту (Rockets are Always at the Ready)
• РОА Марш Белых Партизан (Russian Liberation Army White Partisan March)
• Родина суровая (Harsh Motherland)
• Розпрягайте Хлопці Коней
• Розпрягайте Хлопці Коней – 2
• Шли солдаты, шли солдаты, защищать свою страну (There March the Soldiers)
• Широка страна моя родная
• Шла с красным стягом Двадцать седьмая! (Song of 27th Division)
• Cибиряки (Siberian soldiers)
• Смуглянка молдованка
• Соловьи (Nightingales)
• Song about Stalingrad
• The song of the Second army
• Советская армия, Красная армия (Soviet Army, Red Army)
• Sozialistische Weltrepublik (Socialist World Republic)
• Stars and Stripes Forever (USA)
• Священная война (Holy War)
• Священная война (Holy War – HQ)
• Talvisota (No Molotov – Finnish War Song)
• Тачанка (Tachanka)
• Три танкиста (Three Tankists)
• Три танкиста (by Юлия Ковальчук)
• Unsung Heroes (DPRK)
• В путь (Let’s Go!)
• Варшавянка (Russian revolutionary song)
• Варяг (Varyag)
• В землянке (in a dug-out)
• Все теперь против нас
• Всё выше (Ever Higher! – Song of Soviet Air Force)
• Все за Родину (All for the Motherland)
• Volk ans Gewehr (People to Arms!)
• Вот Солдаты Идут (Here Come the Soldiers)
• Вставайте, люди русские
• Взвейтесь кострами (Pioneer Song)

Nihilism of transparency, the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms

• 25-ый этаж (корни)
• Apocalypse Please (Muse)
• Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
• Берегись автомобиля
• Blyadi
• Боже, отдай нам Царя
• Bullet in the Head (Rage against the Machine)
• Crimson Tide
• Cut Off Ukraine’s Gas!
• Die Another Day (Madonna)
• From Paris to Berlin (Infernal)
• Gazprom Song
• Gdybym miał gitarę Ela M
• Гоп со смыком (Soviet criminal song – Leonid Utesov)
• Gradus Vita (Hellsing)
• Губит людей не пиво, губит людей вода
• Hell March (Nazi version)
• Hitler’s soldiers and Russian girls (a very weird German song)
• The Hotel California (Eagles)
• Hymn to Red October
• Hysteria (Muse)
• Империя, вперед! (Empire, Forwards!)
• Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation
• Kalinka (TATU)
• Капли абсента (Irakli)
• Kazakh Anthem (Borat)
• Kids (MGMT)
• LaLaLa (Zhanna Friske)
• Мальчик хочет в Тамбов (Murat Nasyrov)
• Many Men Wish Death (50 Cent)
• Marina (Philip Kirkorov)
• Marina (in Spanish – better than in Russian!)
• Мы русские (We are Russians – Жанна Бичевская)
• Нам – Сталин Отец ! Нам – Родина Мать! (Stalin’s our Father, Russia’s our Mother)
• Наш Советский Союз покоряет Весь мир (C&C parody of Soviet march)
• Небо славян (Alisa – Slav Sky)
• Небо славян (women’s choir)
• Небо славян (army)
• Nyah (Hans Zimmer)
• Oczy Zielone
• Одесский порт (Odessa port – Leonid Utesov, Soviet jazz)
• Очень хочется в Советский Союз
• Пальмы парами (Блестящие)
• Паутинка (Philip Kirkorov)
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga)
• Polovtsian Dances, Prince Igor (Borodin – modern interpretation)
• Последний бой, он трудный самый
• Прости (Асия Ахат)
• Putvedev Song
• Russian Sailor’s Dance (Reinhold Gliere)
• Такого как Путин (I want a man like Putin)
• The Poet and the Pendulum (Nightwish)
• Повстань могутня Україна!
• Quantum of Solace (Huck Whitney)
• Requiem for a Dream
• Russian Agent 007 (Блестящие)
• Russian Airborne Troops Music Video
• Русский Марш (The Russian March)
• Serebro 2007 Eurovision
• Смуглянка молдованка (Baskov)
• Снегири (Trofim)
• Star Wars Imperial March
• Sweet Dreams are Dreams Made of these (Eurythmics)
• Telephone ft. Beyoncé (Lady Gaga)
• Tingaling
• Ваше благородие госпожа удача
• Военная реформа, крик души офицера
• Восточные сказки (Блестящие и Arash)
• Встань за веру Русская земля (Stand for the Faith, Russian Land!)
• Welcome to the Jungle (Guns & Roses)
• Юля-красавица! (Baskov)
• Значит скоро война… (This means there’ll soon be war)

Disclaimer: inclusion of certain music (e.g. Nazi songs) does not imply endorsement of the politics or values associated with it.