I don't think I can quite tailor recs to your taste, but I can sure start blurting some things out?! LOL. I mean, it seems like you enjoy symphonic music from Germany, which really narrows things down a lot. I guess? I like Schumann's 4th, not as familiar with his earlier stuff, and of course there is Brahms' 4th (I prefer his chamber music the most), but . . . Ok, I'll linky the Schumann. It does have that
Sturm und Drang thing going for it, to my ears, which I think is probably your thing. (This is the whole thing though, you'd have to scroll for the faster stuff.)
Loud (forte) and fast (allegro) can describe certain mvmts in almost every symphonic work I know of! LOL.
The closest sounding thing to Beethoven symphonies in my opinion are some of those by Haydn. Really, I should say that in reverse: Beethoven often sounds like Haydn to me, and after all he was his teacher for a couple of years. He is often said to be the inventor of the symphony as we know it, as well as the string quartet, which are probably the two greatest formats in the eyes of many a composer! But there are like a bazillion of them, times the # of performances, yada yada. I'm not going to hunt one down.
But you know what's cool about programmatic music like the Strauss you heard is that I think that in general it makes it easier for newcomers to get into classical music. It gives them ideas, imagery, a story, something to connect the music to, so that it's not quite as (intimidatingly?) abstract. Anything that is put to film, to me, automatically becomes programmatic (and often is pretty different than what the composer intended). Like 2001, or Fantasia.
So after thinking about how you like the "storm" part, I couldn't help but think of other programmatic music that had to do weather. Now, the most well known is probably the 4 Seasons by Vivaldi. I will readily admit that there were a number of years in my life that I wasn't crazy about some of his stuff. In fact, during those times, his name could be the first thing to escape my tongue if you said "elevator music" to me. (A side point to make right now is that the interpretation can really make the notes from a piece of paper sound extremely different.) This same music that I once considered elevator music, well I could even see Rammstein members enjoying it! (I just listened to my first 5 secs ever from them, LOL.) The opening tones that some of the strings are making, one might think they could be from a horror film soundtrack. As far as I understand it, they play on "period instruments" too.
There was a show last year that I wanted to see, but missed out on, and one of the things on the program that I also wanted to see was Daphnis et Chloe no. 2, another programmatic (really a ballet) work, by Ravel. I don't think you would necessarily like it, a lot of it is "lush" like a paradise, some melancholy, some dramatic moments, but not so much the "fast and loud" kind of thing. But for the person who likes to smoke the funny stuff, has an awesome stereo, well, I'll leave it there.
I just grabbed this one, even though someone is saying that it's only a juvenile semi-pro group. Really, I'm just throwing this up because it was the last programmatic work that I considered attending.
The first symphonic work that I look for when looking through a calendar schedule is probably Shostakovich's 5th. This Russian composer is capable of more sarcasm than any 10 composers you can pick, combined, and is just as profound with his sadness. This is the last mvmt from that symphony. The Lento (preceding mvmt) from there is probably the saddest piece of art that I know of, of course IMO. Anyway, even if most of his music is not programmatic, he is often used in film. In the IMDB link, credit is not given for Patriot Games, where they ripped off and bastardized the Lento, as I recall squirming in my seat, during James Earl Jones' final moments. I swear I have heard other rip offs like that, changed (just barely enough maybe to avoid royalties?) and it always makes me disappointed (stronger word needed?). Anyway, not German, not programmatic, but I like it, it's loud, and it's fast, LOL.
Dmitri Shostakovich - IMDb
Loud, sometimes fast, is Saent Saens #3, also known as the Organ Symphony. Sometimes, it gets a little long to me, but that first time you hear that organ bust in (most of the work is without it), and especially when you're not expecting it, it's pretty awesome. Of course, I just ruined it all for you! lol. Well, to make the instrumentation even more unique is the use of piano for four hands, along with the organ. (Now that I come to think of it, I really appreciate Shosta's use of the piano as well in his symphonic work.)
I'm probably not helping much, but it was fun to look some of these up. Cheers. Oh, some other well known programmatic works include Holst's The Planets, as well as Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (I have a recording somewhere that I bought on the recommendation of pzaur from here.) I'm not sure what you would think of the ballet music of Stravinsky, hard to say, you might want to wait on that stuff(?), I don't know. Firebird, Rite of Spring. I told you I was just going to blabber about.
