The most beautiful Adagio

[Lethevich]

Okay. Someday I try to explore them (in fact I almost bought 8th but I didn't).

Certainly should IMO, as I notice from your posts that you value complexity in music.

[Rabin_Fan]

Adagio - from Spartacus by Khachaturian (The tune that UK listeners know as the tune from the show The Onedin Line). Simply gorgeous!

[mahlertitan]

i think all of the mahler's adagios are beautiful, he had a particular talent at writing slow orchestral music.

[quintett op.57]

Lethe, I'm surprised you didn't mention the composer on your avatar, how many gorgeous adagios has he composed?

I can't choose.
So many works.
Love Bruckner's & Shosta's as well

[Symphonien]

Rautavaara - Symphony No. 7 Third Movement

[71 dB]

Certainly should IMO, as I notice from your posts that you value complexity in music.

Okay. I don't see Mahler a composer of complex music but then again I haven't explored it much.

[The Emperor]

Shostakovich: 7th Symphony 3rd Movement
Shostakovich: 11th Symphony 3rd movement
Shostakovich: 13th Symphony 1st and 4th movement.

and for the slower Largo:

Shostakovich: 5th Symphony 3rd Movement
Shostakovich: 8th Symphony 4th Movement

Oh yeah!

Many of my favorites have been mentioned...i will add albinoni's adagio although overplayed to death, it's a beautiful piece.

[uffeviking]

Does 'Adagietto' qualify for this subject? If 'yes' then the one in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is my all time favourite!

[Bunny]

Does 'Adagietto' qualify for this subject? If 'yes' then the one in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is my all time favourite!

Of course it does!

[Bunny]

Oh yeah!

Many of my favorites have been mentioned...i will add albinoni's adagio although overplayed to death, it's a beautiful piece.

Unfortunately, it probably wasn't written by Albinoni.

[Florestan]

Unfortunately, it probably wasn't written by Albinoni.

Actually it certainly wasn't. It's a 20th century fellow named Remo Giazzotto who assembled it from Albinoni's scratch.

[m_gigena]

The Nocturne from Borodin's second SQ.

[The Emperor]

Why is it, everytime someone mentions "albinoni's adagio", someone has to say, he didn't write it?
We all know that by now...it's just how the piece is known...

[Iago]

Yes, the 3rd Movement of Bruckners Sym #8, although a bit long, is IMO, the most beautiful, heart grabbing, emotionally impacting adagio, so far written by any composer.
Beautifully, orchestrated, and if marking instructions are obeyed by the performers, absolutely gut-wrenching in its impact.
I prefer Karajans/VPO/1988 performance of the entire symphony. But for the third movement only, Boulez/VPO absolutely CANNOT be bettered.

[karlhenning]

I doubt that Dimitri wrote his symphonies for aesthetic reasons, in fact, he'll be offended if you think his symphonies are "beautiful".

What a bizarre comment!

[Lethevich]

Lethe, I'm surprised you didn't mention the composer on your avatar, how many gorgeous adagios has he composed?

Mainly for the following reason -

I can't choose.
So many works.

But if I forced myself to pick a single one, the Dvorak cello concerto it will have to be

[Maciek]

Why is it, everytime someone mentions "albinoni's adagio", someone has to say, he didn't write it?
We all know that by now...

Not true! I learned that just this minute!

[mahlertitan]

What a bizarre comment!

bizzare as i sound, i have a valid point. Dimitri lived in the very repressive Stalinist Russia, there is nothing "beautiful" about it. Why should he write "beautiful" music to glorify a ruthless regime?

[quintett op.57]

bizzare as i sound, i have a valid point. Dimitri lived in the very repressive Stalinist Russia, there is nothing "beautiful" about it. Why should he write "beautiful" music to glorify a ruthless regime?

he found beauty by chance?

[mahlertitan]

he found beauty by chance?

there are plenty of "beauty" in his light music, but i fail to observe any "beauty" in his orchestral music, they are spare in texture, and dark in mood.