The Most "MOVING" Pieces for you Personally.

[marvinbrown]

Does your avatar know that you've been two-timing?

  Well it never stopped my avatar so why should it stop me  . 

  marvin

[BachQ]

  Well it never stopped my avatar so why should it stop me  . 

  marvin

[loudav]

Hands down: R. Strauss' Four Last Songs. I could add others, but they pale by comparison.

And thank you, James, for having offered the same in your list. Not having seen it cited before you did, I was beginning to wonder what the world had come to.

[vandermolen]

Yes, and where when you would fully expect some kind of virtuoso cadenza you get instead a re-iteration of hauntingly beautiful themes from the 1st and 2nd movement. And it makes it even more moving when you find out the reason why this is.

Yes, totally agree.

[vandermolen]

Simpleton's song at end of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

[The new erato]

Hands down: R. Strauss' Four Last Songs. I could add others, but they pale by comparison.

And thank you, James, for having offered the same in your list. Not having seen it cited before you did, I was beginning to wonder what the world had come to.

Of course, I bow my head in shame.....

[Sergeant Rock]

Hands down: R. Strauss' Four Last Songs.

Of course...Vier Letzte Lieder...I can't believe those songs didn't come immediately to mind.

Sarge

[Anne]

Simpleton's song at end of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

I agree!

Schubert:  Death and the Maiden

Beethoven:  Conducted by Bohm - Missa Solemnis: the solo violin in the latter part of the work
                 Conducted by Furtwangler - 9th Symphony: 3rd movement 1951
                                                                          : 1st movement  1942

[vandermolen]

I agree!

Schubert:  Death and the Maiden

Beethoven:  Conducted by Bohm - Missa Solemnis: the solo violin in the latter part of the work
                 Conducted by Furtwangler - 9th Symphony: 3rd movement 1951
                                                                          : 1st movement  1942

The Simpleton's song is quite beautiful and I feel that its message is as relevant for 20th (and 21st?) Century Russia as it was for 19th Century Russia.  Seeing this at a live performance in London was one of the best musical experiences ever for me (and I am not an opera fan).

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Beethoven: Conducted by Furtwangler - 9th Symphony: 1st movement  1942

The most terrifying reading of this movement I know.

[Bonehelm]

The most terrifying reading of this movement I know.

Ditto.

[Varg]

I think nobody named those.

Fauré: Requiem
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

[Anne]

"The Simpleton's song is quite beautiful and I feel that its message is as relevant for 20th (and 21st?) Century Russia as it was for 19th Century Russia.  Seeing this at a live performance in London was one of the best musical experiences ever for me (and I am not an opera fan)."

The Gergiev/Kirov DVD's are available for Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina.  In the latter opera the dance of the Persian slaves is beautiful and mesmerizing.

[Anne]

The most terrifying reading of this movement I know.

Same here. 

[Christo]

Quote from: Jezetha on March 31, 2008, 12:02:54 AM
The most terrifying reading of this movement I know.

Same here. 

Is the recording really that bad?

[MadvillainQuas]

Let's restart an 11-year-old dead thread, shall we  ?

Schnittke: Choir Concerto, IV & Requiem
J.S. Bach: Art of Fugue, Contrapuntus XIV & St. John Passion, Herr unser Herrscher (Basically endless list, but these two are standout)
C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in G & D, Mvt. I
Mozart: Grosse Messe, Kyrie
Tailleferre: Valse Lente
Martynov: Beatitudes
Yoshimatsu: Ode to Birds and Rainbow, Mvt. II
RVW: Serenade to Music & Flos campi, VI
Tavener: Funeral Canticle
Part: Berliner Messe, Gloria
Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu & Psalm 129
Ogermann: Preludio and Chant
Chilcott: St. John Passion, Miserere my Maker
Ravel: Piano Concerto, Mvt. II
Moeran: Symphony in G, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto
Finzi: Violin Concerto, Mvt. II
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Hindemith: Nobillissima Visione, 1. & Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieiras No.3 & 9, Mvt. II
Satie: Le Fils des Etoiles, Prelude (I wish the first minute could just repeat forever)
Kapustin: 8 Etudes, II. Reverie
Reger: Psalm 100, Requiem
Peterson-Berger: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Atterberg: Symphony No.3
Benyamin Nuss: Mr. Hamauzu, Mvt. I; Letters, S; Elegie fur Fukushima

...and that's that for the time being. Just too difficult to narrow down all of this music into one definitive list.

[Que]

Welcome to the forum!

Q

[vandermolen]

Let's restart an 11-year-old dead thread, shall we  ?

Schnittke: Choir Concerto, IV & Requiem
J.S. Bach: Contrapuntus XIV & St. John Passion, Herr unser Herrscher (Basically endless list, but these two are standout)
C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in G & D, Mvt. I
Mozart: Grosse Messe, Kyrie
Tailleferre: Valse Lente
Martynov: Beatitudes
Yoshimatsu: Ode to Birds and Rainbow, Mvt. II
RVW: Serenade to Music & Flos campi, VI
Tavener: Funeral Canticle
Part: Berliner Messe, Gloria
Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu & Psalm 129
Ogermann: Preludio and Chant
Chilcott: St. John Passion, Miserere my Maker
Ravel: Piano Concerto, Mvt. II
Moeran: Symphony in G, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto
Finzi: Violin Concerto, Mvt. II
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Hindemith: Nobillissima Visione, 1. & Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieiras No.3 & 9, Mvt. II
Satie: Le Fils des Etoiles, Prelude (I wish the first minute could just repeat forever)
Kapustin: 8 Etudes, II. Reverie
Reger: Psalm 100, Requiem
Peterson-Berger: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Atterberg: Symphony No.3
Benyamin Nuss: Mr. Hamauzu, Mvt. I; Letters, S; Elegie fur Fukushima

...and that's that for the time being. Just too difficult to narrow down all of this music into one definitive list.

Welcome from me too. I share several of your choices including Moeran, Yoshimatsu and Boulanger.

[vers la flamme]

Let's restart an 11-year-old dead thread, shall we  ?

Schnittke: Choir Concerto, IV & Requiem
J.S. Bach: Art of Fugue, Contrapuntus XIV & St. John Passion, Herr unser Herrscher (Basically endless list, but these two are standout)
C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in G & D, Mvt. I
Mozart: Grosse Messe, Kyrie
Tailleferre: Valse Lente
Martynov: Beatitudes
Yoshimatsu: Ode to Birds and Rainbow, Mvt. II
RVW: Serenade to Music & Flos campi, VI
Tavener: Funeral Canticle
Part: Berliner Messe, Gloria
Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu & Psalm 129
Ogermann: Preludio and Chant
Chilcott: St. John Passion, Miserere my Maker
Ravel: Piano Concerto, Mvt. II
Moeran: Symphony in G, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto
Finzi: Violin Concerto, Mvt. II
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Hindemith: Nobillissima Visione, 1. & Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieiras No.3 & 9, Mvt. II
Satie: Le Fils des Etoiles, Prelude (I wish the first minute could just repeat forever)
Kapustin: 8 Etudes, II. Reverie
Reger: Psalm 100, Requiem
Peterson-Berger: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Atterberg: Symphony No.3
Benyamin Nuss: Mr. Hamauzu, Mvt. I; Letters, S; Elegie fur Fukushima

...and that's that for the time being. Just too difficult to narrow down all of this music into one definitive list.

Great list! I love your username, should I take it to mean that you're a hip-hop head, too? There are not many of us here, I must warn you Hope you stick around!

[André]

+1 for the Elgar concerto, the Reger choral works.

I would add the slow introduction to Elgar symphony no 1, the cadenza and slow movement of his violin concerto and the introduction to part II of Mass of Life (Delius). Also Reger's Der Einsiedler, the Requiem's sister work.

Operas should figure here too, but being large scale works, the epithet 'moving' is likely to apply to particular scenes. Like the last scene from Bellini's Norma, starting at In mia man alfin tu sei, or the redemptive Immolation Scene of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.