Your 5 favourite symphonic slow movements.

[Sergeant Rock]

What an excellent, modest little treat that is.

It was a movement we learned for a band competition when I was in high school. It was love at first listen (even in the band arrangement). It's so beautiful, and so simple.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

O Mensch!

Great choice...but the last movement is incredible too. Which would I choose? Depends on how much time I have to listen 

Sarge

[Brahmsian]

Great choice...but the last movement is incredible too. Which would I choose? Depends on how much time I have to listen 

Sarge

The final movement of Mahler's 3rd almost made my list, indeed! 

[TheGSMoeller]

Mine are:

Mahler's 6th
Beethoven's 3rd
Bruckner's 7th
Tchaikovsky's 5th
Schubert's 4th

You love that Schubert 4th, don't you? 
And if I had to include a Bruckner to my list it would have to be from the 7th, good pick.

[Brahmsian]

You love that Schubert 4th, don't you? 

I really do!! 

[Conor71]

Off the top of my head :


Beethoven 9th
Mahler 5th
Shostakovich 1st
Sibelius 1st
Tchaikovsky 3rd

[madaboutmahler]

Sibelius 1st

OH YES!


http://www.youtube.com/v/G9rTlk3AgHY

So much rubato! For me, Perfection! 
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[liuzerus87]

I really hope concerti count here:

Barber - Violin Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No 9
Brahms - Piano Concerto No 2
Bruckner - Symphony No 8
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1

I was tempted to try to sneak in a movement from Brahms' German Requiem...

[Octo_Russ]

Mahler - 4th
Beethoven - 3rd
Bruckner - 8th
Saint-Saens - 3rd
Schubert - 8th

[eyeresist]

Kalinnikov Symphony #1 2nd movement

BROTHER!

[Conor71]

OH YES!


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/G9rTlk3AgHY" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/G9rTlk3AgHY</a>

So much rubato! For me, Perfection! 
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Aye!    - Rattles performance is a real good one too

[madaboutmahler]

Aye!    - Rattles performance is a real good one too

I love it! No one else I have heard uses that much rubato, but Rattle. And what beauty it results in!

Just to round up, the current top 6 voted for here, each with 3 votes in total:
Bruckner 8
Mahler 6
Rachmaninov 2
Schubert 9
Tchaikovsky 5 +6

[johnshade]

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven Symphonies
Best slow movements: Beethoven piano sonatas.
Beethoven has a lock on slow movements.

[Lilas Pastia]

I was tempted to try to sneak in a movement from Brahms' German Requiem...

Which one? 

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That's an exercise in futility . To qualify, a 'slow movement' must have its rightful place as a moment of either emotional or relaxed musical feelings between two fast or turbulent movements.

The answer to this is:

Mozart, concerto no. 23.
Schumann, symphony number 2
Bruckner: symphony number 6
Brahms: concerto for piano no 2
Rachmaninoff, symphony number 2

[Jo498]

Beethoven 9
Mahler 9
Bruckner 8
Haydn 88
Schumann 2nd

[TheGSMoeller]

Yes, sir.
Here's my list.

Haydn: Symphony No.44: Adagio
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 "Pastorale": Andante molto moto
Schubert: Symphony No.9: Andante
Ives: Symphony No.4: Finale, very slowly
Britten: Sinfonia Da Requiem: Requiem Aeternam

Almost two years later...Replace the Britten with a Bruckner Adagio, probably the 6th. And replace the Haydn 44 with another Haydn, the Andante from No. 70.

[vandermolen]

Never saw this thread.

Bruckner: No.9
Tchaikovsky: No.6 finale
Vaughan Williams:No. 6 Epilogue
Atterberg: No. 8
Piston: No. 2

PS I only chose symphonies otherwise Shostakovich VC No. 1 would have featured too.

[bwv 1080]

Right now, all Mahler:
4:III
5:IV
6:III
Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde
9:IV

[Brian]

Beethoven No. 7
Brahms No. 4
Bruckner No. 7, no percussion version
Atterberg No. 8
Vaughan Williams No. 5

Honorable mentions:
Bruckner Nos. 6 and 8
Rachmaninov No. 2
Schubert Nos. 5, 7 "Unfinished," 8 "Great"
Sibelius if Lemminkainen Suite counted as a symphony.
Dvorak Nos. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9

[North Star]

Sibelius if Lemminkainen Suite counted as a symphony.

Dude, the 4th Symphony!!!