The most beautiful Adagio

[BachQ]

Ravel - Piano Concerto in G, 2nd Movt.

Yuppers . . . . . .

[op.110]

Nice! Who's playing on that one?

Why Leon Fleisher of course!

[Steve]

Why Leon Fleisher of course!

I have yet to arrive at Ravel in my explorations, but I have heard of this concerto. I've got to pick this one up.

[Ten thumbs]

Beethoven Piano Concertos are well covered (No4 for me)
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No2 with its gorgeous triple concerto.
Haydn Piano Sonatas - Ab - UE31 and F - UE38
Chopin Piano Sonata No3
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No7

[stingo]

I'd also add the middle movement of Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins (the BWV number escapes me atm).

[Guido]

Any of Barber's slow movements. The obvious one is the Adagio for strings, but the slow movement from the violin concerto, or the more anguished cello concerto, or even the more mysterious piano concerto slow movements are all sumptuous.

Rodrigo's slow movements are all remarkably fine, especially the violin concerto, and the second cello concerto (the first is lovely too actually).

I thought the slow movement of Carter's Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei was very beautiful.

Also Finzi's slow movements are all extremely lovely (but then almost everything by him is a slow movement!) - especially the cello and violin concertos, and also the the Eclogue for piano and strings

Shostakovich, Hindemith, Bliss, Bax and Burger all wrote cello concertos with remarkable slow movements. Schumann, Haydn and Dvorak cello concerto slow movements are all much more famous of course, but all hav gorgeous slow moevements.

[Harry]

The seventh movement from the first symphony from Ernst Krenek, a fine Adagio lasting 6:18 delicious minutes followed by a Fuge which is also played kind of Adagio!

[Haffner]

I'd also add the middle movement of Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins (the BWV number escapes me atm).

The one in D minor? A favorite of mine as well.


One of the most gripping adagios is from Joseph Haydn's Symphony no. 102.


Also, Haydn's "Largo" string quartet, op.76, no.5. A real masterpiece of emotion, in my humble opinion.

[Christo]

One of the 'most entirely beautiful' adagios ever composed must be, imho: the Molto Adagio from the posthumously discovered symphonic poem Türkiye by Turkish composer Cemâl Resit Rey, to be found in this CD:

                      

[Sergeant Rock]

Okay. I don't see Mahler a composer of complex music

dB, you're thinking too freely again, dude.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Has anyone mentioned the slow movement from Mahler's 6th?

Wrong thread, dude   That's an Andante.

But I have to agree with you; it's a ravishingly beautiful slow movement. My favorite, in fact.

Sarge

[Haffner]

dB, you're thinking too freely again, dude.

Sarge

Mahler's 4th Symphony alone is magnificently complex, and highly rewarding. I won't even go into his unbelievably brilliant 8th and 9th.

[71 dB]

dB, you're thinking too freely again, dude.

Sarge

Sorry, can't help it. 

Mahler's 4th Symphony alone is magnificently complex, and highly rewarding. I won't even go into his unbelievably brilliant 8th and 9th.

Okay Andy. 

[Haffner]

Okay Andy. 

Sorry, db, I should have mentioned that my admiration of Mahler was according to personal taste (I usually remember).

[karlhenning]

Third movement of the 'Leningrad' Symphony.  Especially a moment of espagnolerie in a magnificent moment about halfway through.

[71 dB]

Sorry, db, I should have mentioned that my admiration of Mahler was according to personal taste (I usually remember).

It's okay Andy. I understand. 

[jochanaan]

Hindemith: Symphony in Eb, 2nd mvt. Sehr langsam.  An unjustly neglected symphony anyway, and this movement is utterly gorgeous.

Irving Fine: Partita for Wind Quintet, finale (and also 3rd movement, on a smaller scale).

Did somebody already mention Tchaikovsky's Symphony #1's second movement?

[btpaul674]

The Adagio to the Braga Santos String Sinfonietta is the bee's roller skates.

In my opinion, nobody does Adagios like Braga Santos...

wow......

[Operahaven]

Unbelievable.... After 5 pages there is not a single mention of the great Adagio from Bruckner's  Fifth  symphony.

It is simply ecstatic...

[Ephemerid]

Well, after losing a longish post and frustration with computers in general, I'll give the short version-- some are a bit obvious choices-- some may not technically be "adagios" proper:

Barber: Adagio for Strings (I actually prefer the 4tet version)
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (one of the few things by Mahler I enjoy)
Shostakovich: The opening and closing largo movements from String 4tet No. 8
Beethoven: Third movement from String Quartet No. 16
Vivaldi: The adagio from "Autumn"
Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 (adagio?)
Bach: The melancholic adagio from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: 3rd movement from String Quartet No. 15
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (adagio?)
Britten: the final movement from Sinfonia da Requiem

and some other ones I'm forgetting now...