Twelve works that you find most moving.

[ritter]

First list (OTTOMH, alphabetically by composer):

- J.S. Bach: Aria "Zerfliesse, mein Herze"  from Johannespassion, BWV 245
- J.S. Bach: Aria "Tief gebückt und voller Reue" from Cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
- Boulez: Mémoriale ("...explosante-fixe..." originel)
- Debussy: Berceuse héroïque.
- Enescu: Oedipe, Act IV
- Mahler: "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from Rückert-Lieder.
- Mozart: Recitative and aria "Giunse al fin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar" from Act IV of Le nozze di Fígaro.
- R. Strauss: Orchestral interlude and aria "Wie umgibst du mich mit Frieden" from Act III of Die Liebe der Danae.
- Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
- Wagner: Parsifal, Act III

[vandermolen]

New list:

Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9 (listening to it now - Andre Previn recording)
Bruckner: Symphony 9
Novak: Christchild's Lullabye from Eight Nocturnes for Voice and Orchestra
Shostakovich: VC No.1 (Passacaglia)
Shostakovich: Symphony 4 (conclusion)
Alan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2 (conclusion)
Miaskovsky: Symphony 27
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress
Honegger: Liturgique Symphony (conclusion)
Stanley Bate: Symphony 4
W Dennis Browne: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing (Song)

[Florestan]

Otomh, in order of coming and forcing myself to stick to one per composer:

Bach - Schafe können sicher weiden
Mozart - Piano Concerto in C minor
Beethoven - Pathetique Piano Sonata
Schubert - The Great C major Symphony
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1
Schumann - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Piano Trio No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 5
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Bortkiewicz - Symphony No. 1
Enescu - Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov - The Angel, Op. 2 No. 2

[SymphonicAddict]

Interesting topic.

Alwyn - Lyra Angelica
Duruflé - Requiem
Górecki - Symphony No. 3
Korngold - Adagio from the Symphony in F sharp major
Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (IV mov.)
Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Pettersson - Symphony No. 6
Puccini - Madama Butterfly
Schubert - String quintet (especially for the 2nd mov.)
Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
Tallis - Spem in allium
Tchaikovsky - Piano trio

[Brahmsian]

Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (IV mov.)

Oh my...yes.  I cannot believe I forgot about mentioning this one!

[Papy Oli]

Pärt - Summa (in any version)
Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen
Tallis - Salve intemerata
Mahler - Adagio 6th
Vaughan Williams - Lento 2nd symphony
Satie - the 3 Gymnopédies in the De Leeuw version
Pergolesi - Stabat mater
Schubert - Arpeggione sonata
Mahler - Ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen
Mahler - Adagietto 5th
Brahms - Ihr Habt nur Traurigkeit (From the German Requiem)
Bruckner - 9th symphony

[NikF4]

I'll play. And if no one minds, the definition of 'moving' I choose to adopt will include emotionally moving and provoking. Also, in almost a vicarious sense seeing how a piece touches another person and so moves me in turn.
In no particular order -.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Adagio.
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 - romanze larghetto.
Chopin: Nocturne Op. 62/1.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet.
Ravel: Piano Trio.
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor.
Mahler: 6.
Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin.
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (I Loves You, Porgy).
Barber: String Quartet in B minor - molto adagio. I've known two different women to cry during that second movement. Then again, it might just have been a reaction of prolonged exposure to my company.
RVW: A London Symphony - 1914 (longer version?)
Bartok: Piano Concerto No.3.

[vandermolen]

Interesting and thought provoking replies - thank you.

[Maestro267]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Manfred
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Gliére: Symphony No. 3
Elgar: Symphony No. 2
Lloyd: Symphony No. 12
Puccini: Turandot
Glazunov: Symphony No. 5
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Bax: Symphony No. 4
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

[Christo]

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'

Let me add a few I forgot, last time, starting with four pieces for (double) strings from the same years and with a similar 'message':

Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Martinů, Double Concerto
Tippett, Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams, Partita for Double String Orchestra

Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Bate, Symphony No. 4
Ešenvalds, Tāls Ceļš (Long Road)
Górecki, Symphony No. 3 'of Sorrowful Songs'
Mozart, KV 466
Pärt, Te Deum & Kanon Pokajanen
Tormis, Unustatud rahvad (Forgotten Peoples)
Vasks, Tālā Gaisma (Distant Light)
Vaughan Williams, An Oxford Elegy

[vandermolen]

Let me add a few I forgot, last time, starting with four pieces for (double) strings from the same years and with a similar 'message':

Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Martinů, Double Concerto
Tippett, Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams, Partita for Double String Orchestra

Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Bate, Symphony No. 4
Ešenvalds, Tāls Ceļš (Long Road)
Górecki, Symphony No. 3 'of Sorrowful Songs'
Mozart, KV 466
Pärt, Te Deum & Kanon Pokajanen
Tormis, Unustatud rahvad (Forgotten Peoples)
Vasks, Tālā Gaisma (Distant Light)
Vaughan Williams, An Oxford Elegy

Agree with most of these. Yes, An Oxford Elegy is a very poignant, sad and moving score: 'The light we sought is shining still...' etc.

[André]

Pärt - Summa (in any version)
Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen
Tallis - Salve intemerata
Mahler - Adagio 6th
Vaughan Williams - Lento 2nd symphony
Satie - the 3 Gymnopédies in the De Leeuw version
Pergolesi - Stabat mater
Schubert - Arpeggione sonata
Mahler - Ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen
Mahler - Adagietto 5th
Brahms - Ihr Habt nur Traurigkeit (From the German Requiem)
Bruckner - 9th symphony

Sublime !

[Iota]

Probably very cliched. Today's list anyway.

Bach - St Matthew Passion, opening chorus (Rene Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)
Wagner - Mild und leise  (Flagstad/Furtwangler) Probably the first classical music I was aware of. I heard it floating up the stairs as I lay in bed as an 8/9-year-old, and felt it revealed sth fundamental to me about life, though quite what I'm not sure - that desperate beauty and pain can be very close on the emotional spectrum perhaps? - and it just became a kind of musical bedrock for me. It's one of the few times I listen to a historic recording these days.
Bruckner - Symphony No.7, 2nd movement
Britten - String Quartet No.1 (Sorrel Quartet)
Britten - 'From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?', Peter Grimes
Mahler   - Symphony No.9, Finale
Mahler  - Symphony No.3,  last movement (only really Boulez/VPO, or an off air Abbado/Lucerne Festival Orchestra recording from the 2008 Proms)
Mahler   - Symphony No.10,  Adagio
Wagner - Die Meistersinger Overture
Sibelius - Symphony No.7 (currently Vanska/Minnesota)
Beethoven  - Symphony No.9
Vaughan Williams  - Symphony No.5, Romanza

[vandermolen]

Probably very cliched. Today's list anyway.

Bach - St Matthew Passion, opening chorus (Rene Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)
Wagner - Mild und leise  (Flagstad/Furtwangler) Probably the first classical music I was aware of. I heard it floating up the stairs as I lay in bed as an 8/9-year-old, and felt it revealed sth fundamental to me about life, though quite what I'm not sure - that desperate beauty and pain can be very close on the emotional spectrum perhaps? - and it just became a kind of musical bedrock for me. It's one of the few times I listen to a historic recording these days.
Bruckner - Symphony No.7, 2nd movement
Britten - String Quartet No.1 (Sorrel Quartet)
Britten - 'From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?', Peter Grimes
Mahler   - Symphony No.9, Finale
Mahler  - Symphony No.3,  last movement (only really Boulez/VPO, or an off air Abbado/Lucerne Festival Orchestra recording from the 2008 Proms)
Mahler   - Symphony No.10,  Adagio
Wagner - Die Meistersinger Overture
Sibelius - Symphony No.7 (currently Vanska/Minnesota)
Beethoven  - Symphony No.9
Vaughan Williams  - Symphony No.5, Romanza

Great list. Not cliched at all.

[Wanderer]

Britten - 'From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?', Peter Grimes

That's a particularly good one.

[schnittkease]

Bach: Cello Suites
Beethoven: String Quartet #15 - Heiliger Dankgesang
Brahms: 3 Intermezzos, op. 117
Debussy: Preludes
Glass: Violin Concerto #1 - 2nd movement
Honegger: Symphony #3 'Liturgique' - conclusion
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto #1 - 1st, 2nd movements
Schnittke: Cello Concerto #1 - 4th movement
Schnittke: Choir Concerto
Schubert: Piano Sonata #21 - 1st, 2nd movements
Schubert: String Quintet - 1st, 2nd movements
Shostakovich: String Quartet #15

[Crudblud]

Initially I tried to have only one entry per composer, mainly to prevent Mahler from dominating, since I think at my laziest I could easily have picked nothing but movements from his symphonies, but that would have made for a rather boring list. So here is the hopefully not boring list, in no particular order.

Ives - "General William Booth Enters into Heaven"
Ives - Fugue from Symphony No. 4
Mahler - Symphony No. 8 finale, from "Komm! hebe dich zu höhern Sphären" onward
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles
Schoenberg - "O alter Duft" from Pierrot Lunaire
Beethoven - Große Fuge
Ravel - La valse
Messiaen - Act III from St. François d'Assise
Froberger - Allemande from Méditation sur ma morte future
Webern - Sechs Stücke für großes Orchester (Op. 6)
Bach arr. Webern - Ricercar a 6

[ritter]

....
Mahler - Symphony No. 8 finale, from "Komm! hebe dich zu höhern Sphären" onward
...

Great choice there...I'm not that keen on the Eighth as a whole, but that finale, exactly from that point you mention, is simply sublime and moving. In my case, it also has some personal connotations: when I was a young boy, and my dad would be driving us around a city or in the country, whenever he wanted us to notice some particular landmark or view, he'd say "Blicket auf! Blicket auf!" 

...
Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles
...

That makes two of us! 

Not a boring list in the least, Crudblud.

Cheers,

[amw]

Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin
Schubert - Piano Sonata in B-flat D960 (mostly the 2nd movement)
Schubert - String Quartet in A minor D804
Beethoven - String Quartet in B-flat Op.130 - Cavatina
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op.9
Brahms - Violin Sonata in G Op.78
Feldman - Neither
Mendelssohn - Lied ohne Worte Op.67 no.2
Schumann - Kerner Liederreihe, Op.35
Schumann - Frauenliebe und -leben Op.42 - depending on the singer I guess, I'm picky with mezzos
Cage - 103
Sibelius - Symphony No.6 Op.104
Dvořák - String Quintet in E-flat Op.97 - Larghetto
Finnissy - English Country-Tunes

That's more than 12 but whatever

[NikF4]

Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin
Schubert - Piano Sonata in B-flat D960 (mostly the 2nd movement)
Schubert - String Quartet in A minor D804
Beethoven - String Quartet in B-flat Op.130 - Cavatina
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op.9
Brahms - Violin Sonata in G Op.78
Feldman - Neither
Mendelssohn - Lied ohne Worte Op.67 no.2
Schumann - Kerner Liederreihe, Op.35
Schumann - Frauenliebe und -leben Op.42 - depending on the singer I guess, I'm picky with mezzos
Cage - 103
Sibelius - Symphony No.6 Op.104
Dvořák - String Quintet in E-flat Op.97 - Larghetto
Finnissy - English Country-Tunes

That's more than 12 but whatever

As much as I don't particularly enjoy lists (or even having favourites) Brahms is probably who I listen to more than any other composer. But this piece is one that still eludes me.