What piece of music evokes the strongest emotions in you?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Tapiola (Vanska/Lahti Orchestra)

AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/21/1446950/Tapiola.mp3[/mp3]

And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.

[Kullervo]

AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/21/1446950/Tapiola.mp3[/mp3]

And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.

I probably should have added that to my list as well.

[O Delvig]

AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:

And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.

Yes, it's probably the most frightening piece of music I know! (Fear is considered an emotion, right?  ) It's intensely visual, and to me it sounds very ancient and primordial. It's nature in her most impassive and uncaring state, very pre-Christian. Hopefully one day I'll be able to hear it live! I haven't heard Blomstedt's, but then I only have two recordings of it, Vanska and Segerstam. I like Vanska's because everything is icy clear, for me the most important quality of a Sibelius recording.

[Haffner]

The Ouvertures to both Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and J. Haydn's La Fidelta Premiata rouse me to happy, energized heights every time I hear them.

[PaulR]

Shostakovich: 10th Symphony, 5th symphony (Especially the Largo), 14th Symphony
Pettersson: 7th and 8th symphonies.
Dvorak: 8th and 9th Symphonies.
Atterberg: 5th Symphony
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite, 1st piano Concerto.
Berlioz: Requiem, Symphonie Fantastique
Schumann: 3rd and 4th Symphonies

[Sarastro]

Hm, different music (and the ways it's being conducted, sung and played) regards to different emotions...so sometimes you fall in love with the piece, and next time the conductor does something that is beyond the edge of good and evil and you find hatred in your heart...or it just doesn't touch you much.
I'd better say what piece and what interpretation of music evokes the strongest emotions in me. 

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Atterberg: 5th Symphony

Oh, I should have added this. Because of the climactical Lento. Soooo sad. But ending in complete peace.

[Ephemerid]

OK, a partial list-- all of these pieces move me DEEPLY, more so than others:

These ALWAYS make me cry:
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon (this one will ALWAYS make me cry, especially at "O clasp we to our hearts...")
Ravel: The Fairy Garden from the Mother Goose suite for orchestra (this one will ALWAYS make me cry from start to finish, its unbearably beautiful)
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (many bouts of crying in this for me)
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (ALWAYS makes me cry)

And these often move me to tears, or at least gets my heart racing:
Bach: Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1
Bach: Aria from the Goldberg Variations
Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14
Beethoven: Finale from Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: the third movement from String Quartet No. 16
Schubert: Nacht und Traume
Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
Shostakovich: the second movement from his Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (which sometimes makes me cry)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Palestine: Schlingen-Blangen (when I listen to it LOUDLY)
Adams: the third movement from Harmonielehre
Faure: Pie Jesu from his Requiem
Durufle: Ubi Caritas
Kedrov: Our Father

I should stop.  I could keep going...

[The fatgoat]

Let's see what there is...

"Ave Maria"
"O mio babbino caro"
Shostakovich's 8th symphony (his best, IMO)
The Gadfly Suite
Scheherazade
Alexander Nevsky Suite, specifically the "Battle on the Ice"
"Final Scene" from Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony
Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss' 1st Horn Concerto
Franz Strauss' "Nocturne" for Horn and Piano
Ives' 2nd symphony
"Decoration Day" and "The Fourth of July" from Ives' Holiday Symphony
Overture to Tannhäuser
Feste Romane
Final movement from "Billy the Kid"
Estancia


That's quite a list, I suppose...

[Demonic Clarinet]

Dvorak 8th and 9th,

Holst's Second Suite in F part II.

[Israfel the Black]

A few....

Sibelius 7
Bruckner 9
Bruckner 3
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1
Pettersson 9
Sibelius 5
Shostakovich 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler 1
Schumann Violin Concerto
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Mahler 9
Glass Violin Concerto

[Harry]

Brahms first Symphony, as done by Karajan's seventies recording, and the same with Tjaikovsky's 6th symphony, as done by Karajan in the sixties recordings.
On DGG.

[ChamberNut]

Specific movements:

Brahms - Symphony 1, 1st mvt.
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 13, 5th mvt.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3, 2nd mvt.
Schubert - Fantasie for four hand piano in F minor, D.940
Bruckner - Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt.
Schubert - Winter's Journey - 1st mvt.
Mozart - Symphony No. 40 1st and 2nd mvt.
Brahms - Piano Concerto # 1, 2nd mvt.
Mahler - Symphony No. 5, 4th mvt.
Schubert - String Quintet D.956, 3rd mvt.
Haydn - Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, 3rd mvt.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, 1st mvt.

the list is very long....

[Haffner]

Brahms first Symphony, as done by Karajan's seventies recording

Fantastic recording. I second that one.

[DieNacht]

  Nice, if almost "antique" thread ... One answer could be Pettersson´s 2nd Violin Concerto, the Ida Haendel recording, not the poor Van Keulen one. Some other life-long friends, rich and diversified travels in their emotional content, are Bruckner VIII/Haitink (his 1st digital recording), Brahms 1st Cto., Medtner 3rd Concerto/Ponti and Messiaen Des Canyons aux Etoiles/Constant, the Liszt Sonata, Sibelius VI/Karajan DG and IV, Prokofiev 4th Concerto/Krainev.

[Amfortas]

"Das Lied von der Erde", nothing comes near it for emotional impact, imho

[Lisztianwagner]

It's quite hard to choose, every piece I listen to evokes strong emotions and deeply strikes me; it's impossible for me to not feel extremely involved by the great beauty and power of music.
But maybe, as Richard Wagner is my favourite composer, my strongest emotions are evoked by "Der Ring des Nibelungen" or "Tristan und Isolde".

Ilaria

[Josquin des Prez]

Late Beethoven does it for me more then any other composer.

[TheGSMoeller]

I'll give a few that have been the strongest for me in the past several years or so...

Monteverdi: "Pur ti miro" from L'incoronazione Di Poppea
Dowland: Flow, my tears
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Bruckner: Adagios from Symphonies No. 5, 6 & 7
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols/Rejoice in the Lamb
Prokofiev: Toccata Op.11
Haydn: Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Lang: The Match Girl Passion

and to put me in a really good mood...
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no 2/H 3 no 38 "Joke"

[Mirror Image]

A few works that really won my heart over this past year:

Koechlin: Le buisson ardent Parts I & II
Koechlin: Le Docteur Fabricius
Koechlin: Three Melodies
Koechlin: Vers la Voûte étoilée
Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing (I've known this work for a few years but this year it really hit me)
Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba
Schmitt: Psaume 47
Pierne: L'An Mil
Pierne: Cydalise Et Le Chevre-Pied
Ginastera: Estancia (complete ballet)
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Parsifal
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Children's Corner (orchestrated version)
Ravel: Piano Trio
Ravel: Sheherazade
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (an ear-opener for me though I've known it for years)
Britten: Diversions