Twelve works that you find most moving.

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9 (defiantly staring death in the face)
Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony 2 'Sinfonia Grave' conclusion
Mussorgsky: Boris Gudunov: Simpleton's Song at the end (despair for the future of Russia)
Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2 ( I find the last few minutes unbearably moving)
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6, Epilogue
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 2 Epilogue in 1913 version
Vaughan Williams: Pilgrim's Progress (incredibly moving seen live)
Tchaikovsky: Pathetique Symphony, especially last movement.
Mahler: Symphony 9
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6 ( especially nostalgic Trio section of Scherzo)
Shostakovich Symphony 15.


Prob too much VW.

[Christo]

Prob too much VW.

Not at all, and let me proof it: 

Vaughan Williams, Andante sostenuto (second movement) from Symphony No. 9 - for reasons stated already by Jeffrey.
Vaughan Williams, Symphony No.6, especially the Epilogue - too
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15 - for similar reasons
Arnold, Symphony No. 9 - also especially the half hour lasting Finale
Nielsen, Symphony No. 6 'slowly desintegrating'- according to Robert Simpsons' famous interpretation of it, and I tend to agree
Howells, the elegiac Hymnus Paradisi as a whole
Holst, The Hymn of Jesus
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bliss, Morning Heroes
Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony
Tubin, Symphony No. 6 - all five (Holst, Ravel, Bliss, RVW, Tubin) war pieces, the composer mourning personal losses
Avetissyan, Oratorio 'in memoriam 1915'

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Not at all, and let me proof it: 

Vaughan Williams, Andante sostenuto (second movement) from Symphony No. 9 - for reasons stated already by Jeffrey.
Vaughan Williams, Symphony No.6, especially the Epilogue - too
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15 - for similar reasons
Arnold, Symphony No. 9 - also especially the half hour lasting Finale
Nielsen, Symphony No. 6 'slowly desintegrating'- according to Robert Simpsons' famous interpretation of it, and I tend to agree
Howells, the elegiac Hymnus Paradisi as a whole
Holst, The Hymn of Jesus
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bliss, Morning Heroes
Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony
Tubin, Symphony No. 6 - all five (Holst, Ravel, Bliss, RVW, Tubin) war pieces, the composer mourning personal losses
Avetissyan, Oratorio 'in memoriam 1915'

What a super list. Without doubt I should have included Hymnus Paradisi as well - the final section is overwhelming especially in view of the circumstances of the work's creation. The return of the 'cannon fire' from the Somme at the end of Bliss's 'Morning Heroes' is also incredibly moving and, of course, Bliss lost his brother in the war. Bliss has been damned with faint praise by those who suggest that the most memorable thing he wrote was the March from 'Things to Come' - this is absolute rubbish as far as I'm concerned. I'm still looking for the Avetissyan work but without much success. Must listen to Arnold's Ninth again - an extraordinary work. Suk's 'Asrael' Symphony is another work I find very moving. I agree about the Nielsen too, increasingly I regard this as his greatest work and worthy to stand alongside the most tragic utterances of Shostakovich.

[Mirror Image]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9 (defiantly staring death in the face)
Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony 2 'Sinfonia Grave' conclusion
Mussorgsky: Boris Gudunov: Simpleton's Song at the end (despair for the future of Russia)
Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2 ( I find the last few minutes unbearably moving)
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6, Epilogue
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 2 Epilogue in 1913 version
Vaughan Williams: Pilgrim's Progress (incredibly moving seen live)
Tchaikovsky: Pathetique Symphony, especially last movement.
Mahler: Symphony 9
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6 ( especially nostalgic Trio section of Scherzo)
Shostakovich Symphony 15.


Prob too much VW.

Great choices, Jeffrey. My turn:

Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor
Sibelius: The Tempest
RVW: Flos Campi
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Barber: Cello Concerto
Pettersson: Symphony No. 7
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 "Symphonie Liturgique"
Koechlin: Le buisson ardent, Part II
Casella: Sinfonia "Symphony No. 3"
Stanford: The Bluebird

[Ken B]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9 (defiantly staring death in the face)
Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony 2 'Sinfonia Grave' conclusion
Mussorgsky: Boris Gudunov: Simpleton's Song at the end (despair for the future of Russia)
Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2 ( I find the last few minutes unbearably moving)
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6, Epilogue
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 2 Epilogue in 1913 version
Vaughan Williams: Pilgrim's Progress (incredibly moving seen live)
Tchaikovsky: Pathetique Symphony, especially last movement.
Mahler: Symphony 9
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6 ( especially nostalgic Trio section of Scherzo)
Shostakovich Symphony 15.


Prob too much VW.

Better than too much Elgar. 

[Mirror Image]

Better than too much Elgar. 

Wise cracks aside, we still don't have a list from you, Ken.

[Ken B]

Wise cracks aside, we still don't have a list from you, Ken.

Much depends on what you mean by moving. Physically exciting, and adrenalating?  Then Profit and Loss by Nyman. If a beautiful setting and embodiment of a poem then The Feast of Love by Thomson. If an emotional flow then Sibelius 7. If emotionally rewarding and intellectually engaging then check my listening to section. Mind-bendingly beautiful then some Palestrina, Glass, Nyman. Breathtaking moments, I have to count the reprise at the end of the Goldbergs. Entrancing, then Bach's great A minor P&F for organ. And Die Schöne Müllerin somewhere.

Gruppen can get me out of my seat, and out of the room. Does that count?

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Great choices, Jeffrey. My turn:

Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor
Sibelius: The Tempest
RVW: Flos Campi
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Barber: Cello Concerto
Pettersson: Symphony No. 7
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 "Symphonie Liturgique"
Koechlin: Le buisson ardent, Part II
Casella: Sinfonia "Symphony No. 3"
Stanford: The Bluebird

An extremely interesting list John. I also like Casella symphonies 2 and 3 and the Koechlin work. I don't know the Stanford at all so must look it out. The very end of Tippet's A Child of Our Time (Deep River) I find incredibly moving too. Also the end of Honegger's 'Liturgique' especially in the Karajan DGG recording. Barber's Cello Concerto is excellent too. In some ways I prefer it to his other concertos. I find his 'Knoxville' very moving too.

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Much depends on what you mean by moving. Physically exciting, and adrenalating?  Then Profit and Loss by Nyman. If a beautiful setting and embodiment of a poem then The Feast of Love by Thomson. If an emotional flow then Sibelius 7. If emotionally rewarding and intellectually engaging then check my listening to section. Mind-bendingly beautiful then some Palestrina, Glass, Nyman. Breathtaking moments, I have to count the reprise at the end of the Goldbergs. Entrancing, then Bach's great A minor P&F for organ. And Die Schöne Müllerin somewhere.

Gruppen can get me out of my seat, and out of the room. Does that count?

V good point about what is meant by 'moving'; for me I meant in terms of an emotional (in a positive sense!) reaction to particular pieces of music.

[Mirror Image]

An extremely interesting list John. I also like Casella symphonies 2 and 3 and the Koechlin work. I don't know the Stanford at all so must look it out. The very end of Tippet's A Child of Our Time (Deep River) I find incredibly moving too. Also the end of Honegger's 'Liturgique' especially in the Karajan DGG recording. Barber's Cello Concerto is excellent too. In some ways I prefer it to his other concertos. I find his 'Knoxville' very moving too.

Thanks, Jeffrey. The Stanford work is just a short piece (around 3 minutes) for a cappella chorus. Here it is if you want to take a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/v/UNdeCzrdnpE

[NJ Joe]

Okay, I did this by listing the first 12 works that popped into my head.  Warning you in advance, some of these are terribly cliched.

Mussorgsky - Pictures (both piano and orch Ravel). 
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
Schubert - Unfinished
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Bartok - MFSPAC
RVW - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Mozart - Gran Partita
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Chopin - Nocturnes
Tallis - Spem In Alium

[Cato]

Okay, I did this by listing the first 12 works that popped into my head.  Warning you in advance, some of these are terribly cliched.

Mussorgsky - Pictures (both piano and orch Ravel). 
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
Schubert - Unfinished
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Bartok - MFSPAC
RVW - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Mozart - Gran Partita
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Chopin - Nocturnes
Tallis - Spem In Alium

No apologies necessary for the "cliched" works.  The work might have become a cliche,' but that (I would think) is not the fault of the work, but of others imitating the piece, or using it in ways never intended by the composer, e.g. Schubert's Unfinished as music for 1930's horror movies.

A fine list!

[Daverz]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
Bloch: Piano Quintet 1
Shostakovich Symphony 15
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 132
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle

[North Star]

Bach - Passacaglia und Fuge in C minor, BWV 582
Beethoven - String Quartet in c sharp minor, Op. 131
Brahms - Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
Chopin - 3 mazurkas, Op. 63
Janáček - On the Overgrown Path
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no. 2
Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Rakhmaninov - All-night Vigil
Ravel - Piano Trio
Satie - Socrate
Schubert - String Quartet in G major, D. 877
Sibelius - Symphony no. 5
Silvestrov - Silent Songs
Suk - About Mother

[EigenUser]

The usual suspects from me:
Ligeti's Clocks and Clouds (easily the most moving for me)
Ravel's Introduction and Allegro
Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles..., slow movement
Faure's Requiem
Feldman's Triadic Memories (could go with a few Feldman works, but I'll pick one for solo piano to mix things up)
Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, adagio
Debussy's Trois Nocturnes, 3rd
Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2, adagio (those muted stacked fifths!!!)
Ockeghem's Missa Mi-mi
Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra (creepy and sometimes terrifying, but moving)
Mahler's Symphony No. 9, finale
Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1

[TheGSMoeller]

Much depends on what you mean by moving. Physically exciting, and adrenalating?  Then Profit and Loss by Nyman. If a beautiful setting and embodiment of a poem then The Feast of Love

+1
M.G.V., Miranda, Chasing Sheep, Noises Sounds & Sweet Air, etc...Nyman is good at physically exciting and adrenalating.

Can't list 12 at the moment, but first ones that come to mind (which proves I always create these lists chronologically)
Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses,
Dowland: Lachrimae
and Monteverdi: Orfeo.

[Sergeant Rock]

Fauré Pavane (especially the version with chorus)
Beethoven Piano Sonata No.8 "Pathétique" second movement Adagio cantabile
Mahler Symphony No.2, first and last movements
Mahler Symphony No.4 third movement Ruhevoll, poco adagio
Mahler Symphony No.6, first movement coda; last movement (with the hammerblows)
Schubert Der Leiermann from Winterreise
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Pas de deux
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Act II No. 10 Scène Moderato; Act IV No. 29 Scène Finale
Havergal Brian Gothic Symphony, third movement Vivace
Sibelius Symphony No.5, last movement
Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie
Berlioz Requiem, Lacrymosa
Wagner Götterdämmerung, Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene

Any Bruckner coda

[vandermolen]

Okay, I did this by listing the first 12 works that popped into my head.  Warning you in advance, some of these are terribly cliched.

Mussorgsky - Pictures (both piano and orch Ravel). 
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
Schubert - Unfinished
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Bartok - MFSPAC
RVW - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Mozart - Gran Partita
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Chopin - Nocturnes
Tallis - Spem In Alium

I see nothing clichéd here.

[Karl Henning]

Okay, I did this by listing the first 12 works that popped into my head.  Warning you in advance, some of these are terribly cliched.

Mussorgsky - Pictures (both piano and orch Ravel). 
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
Schubert - Unfinished
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Bartok - MFSPAC
RVW - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Mozart - Gran Partita
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Chopin - Nocturnes
Tallis - Spem In Alium

No apologies necessary for the "cliched" works.  The work might have become a cliche,' but that (I would think) is not the fault of the work, but of others imitating the piece, or using it in ways never intended by the composer, e.g. Schubert's Unfinished as music for 1930's horror movies.

A fine list!

+1

[Brahmsian]

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 - intro to the 2nd mvt.
Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - Adagio
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 - Adagio
Beethoven - Op. 132 - 3rd mvt.
Schubert - String Quintet in C major - Trio to the Scherzo mvt.
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 (all of it, but particularly the 2nd mvt.)
Mahler - Symphony No. 6 - Andante moderato
Berlioz - Requiem - Sanctus
Mozart - Great Mass in C minor - Kyrie
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1 - Passacaglia
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1 - Adagio
Bach - St. Matthew Passion - Mache dich, mein Herze, rein