It's hard to say for me personally. In my list certainly Liszt's La Campanella belongs,.. it always gets me in a oddly nostalgic contemplating mood.
Depends on which emotion. Generally Beethoven's 9th is the one I get the most spiritual joy from. Marriage of Figaro gives me the most laughs. Copland's Appalachian Spring and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto give me the most peace. Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Dvorak's Cello Concerto give me the most passionate feelings. Mozart's Requium is the most haunting. Rachmaninov's 2nd PC expresses love and nostalgia.
If this question means "overall", then it'd end up being everyone's favorite piece (and for me the answer would be Mahler 9, 10, and 2) 8)
but as for other emotions..... nostalgia would have to belong to Brahms, rage, energy and fury would be the music of Xenakis, Varese, Penderecki, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, peace and mindless joy Mahler 4, basic amazement Henze 8.... i could go on forever
This is an easy one: whichever piece I'm listening to at the time.
An hour ago, it was Kutavičius' Lokys The Bear.
Ten minutes ago, it was Karin Rehnqvist's Teile dich Nacht.
And right this second, it's Helmut Oehring's ER.eine She (aus: 5ÜNF/ Haare-Opfer).
Schubert D 894
Sviatoslav Richter
3/5/1978
Emotional joy: ODE THE JOY symphony, LvB (I'm probably the only one that calls his 9th that)
Spirtual joy: Resurrection symphony, Mahler...Apocalyptic symphony, Bruckner
Sadness, Depression: Pathetique, Tchaiky
Anger: 5th symphony, Shosty
I cant think of more, had too much caffeine for my brain cells to work properly :(
Quote from: 復活交響曲 on December 25, 2007, 09:23:38 PM
...Apocalyptic symphony, Bruckner
Which one is the "Apocalyptic" symphony?
EDIT: Don't worry, I looked it up and see it's the 8th... not very familiar with the nicknames for these symphonies.
Quote from: George on December 25, 2007, 06:45:44 PM
Schubert D 894
Sviatoslav Richter
3/5/1978
I was just about to say that! It has everything, doesn't it?
Quote from: springrite on December 25, 2007, 09:46:05 PM
I was just about to say that! It has everything, doesn't it?
Yes, it does. :)
No one piece of music. How about a list of 200?
Quote from: karlhenning on December 26, 2007, 06:57:59 AM
No one piece of music. How about a list of 200?
Go for it! ;D
I don't know why, but Nocturne Op48/2 stirs so strong an emotion that I sometimes cannot listen to it. It is not even my favorite nocturne. There has to be a memory associated with it that I can't figure out ::)
Brahms PC 1
Mahler Sym 6
Tchaikovsky Syms 5 and 6
Bruckner 8 and 9
Mozart K. 364; PC's 20 & 24
Quote from: orbital on December 26, 2007, 07:44:57 AM
I don't know why, but Nocturne Op48/2 stirs so strong an emotion that I sometimes cannot listen to it. It is not even my favorite nocturne. There has to be a memory associated with it that I can't figure out ::)
I need to check this one out.
All right, I'll try and list a few...
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
Mahler - Symphony No. 2 & 6
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2
Schnittke - Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 8
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Impossible to say, but since I just listened to it, I'll say Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.
Quote from: orbital on December 26, 2007, 07:44:57 AM
I don't know why, but Nocturne Op48/2 stirs so strong an emotion that I sometimes cannot listen to it. It is not even my favorite nocturne. There has to be a memory associated with it that I can't figure out ::)
I am listening to it now. Boy, it sure is haunting, even spooky! I love it!
I could tell many. Currently: Jean Sibelius, En Saga. The powerful resolution with such a beautiful an ending, where the clarinet player must necessarily feel what he is there: The center of the universe.
Mozart's Masonic Funeral music. Metaphysics in sound! It gives me this cozy cosmic feeling.
Of course, this is just one item in my multitudinous range of dispositions! ;D
I think the kyrie of Mozart's c min mass is extremely emotional.
BEETHOVEN: Sonatas opus 10/3, 106,110, 111 / Quartets opus 59/1, 127, 130, 132 / Diabelli Variations
MOZART: String Quintet K 516 / Piano Concerto 19 / Clarinet Concerto
BRUCKNER: Symphonies 8 and 9
WAGNER: Parsifal
JS BACH: Mass in B minor
SCHUBERT: Quartet in G major / String Quintet / Lied Af dem Wasser zu singen
SCHÖNBERG: Moses und Aaron
ENESCU: Oedipe
What an excellent topic this is!
Here are the works which evoke the strongest passions within our breast:
1) Schoenberg's Gurrelieder
2) Tristan and Isolde (strange because we dislike the rest of Wagner)
3) The opening chorus of Bach's St. John Passion (as well as a few passages in the cantatas when sung by pure and quavery boy sopranos)
4) Parts of Mozart's Requiem
5) The final movement of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony
6) Parts of Mozart's later efforts, particularly of his string quartets and quintets
7) The first movement of Beethoven's Third Symphony, and particularly the loud dissonant passage towards the end of its development section.
What common factor do these works which move us possess? It is we think that they contain sequential passages. It is the clash between mind and mechanism that is there operative is it not? The mechanical nature of the sequence somehow permits the composer to go further off the harmonic rails than he would otherwise dare to essay. He is able thus to impose order upon an area of chaos never before tamed or conquered, and to incorporate it into his Work of Art.
LvB op.132, 3rd Movement
A life-Affirming experience that tends to leave me not wanting to listen to anything else for a long period afterward. And I'm going to be bold and highlight the Borodin SQ performance as being the most emotion-provoking and intense.
Perhaps Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Quote from: Symphonien on December 26, 2007, 06:14:24 PM
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
0:)
Granados: the La maja "something" from Goyescas.
There are many moments in Sibelius that cause the tears to well-up: The 7th, the beginning of the 6th (get chills thinking about it), 3rd movement of the 4th, the end of the 3rd and 5th
Beethoven: last movement of the 5th symphony, slow movement of the Op. 135 quartet, the Cavatina from Op. 130, the first movement of the Op. 111 sonata
These evoke strong emotions:
Pelléas et Mélisande
Tristan und Isolde
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Quote from: Haffner on December 27, 2007, 02:05:29 AM
LvB op.132, 3rd Movement
A life-Affirming experience that tends to leave me not wanting to listen to anything else for a long period afterward. And I'm going to be bold and highlight the Borodin SQ performance as being the most emotion-provoking and intense.
Seconded, though the final assertion has yet to be determined by this listener.
A few leap immediately to mind:
Bach -- Passacaglia & Fugue, Mass in B Minor
Vivaldi -- Mandolin Concerto RV93: Largo
Purcell -- Dido's Lament
Mozart -- Ave Verum Corpus, parts of the Requiem, several piano concerti
Beethoven -- fugue from the Eroica, last mvt of Sym#6, Moonlight sonata, sonata#27, I could go on all day
Brahms -- finale of 1st symphony, opening of 1st piano concerto, All Flesh is Grass from Requiem, violin concerto
Chopin -- many of the preludes and nocturnes, lots of others
Mahler -- finale 3rd, adagietto 5th, andante 6th, finale 9th
Bruckner -- yes
Strauss -- Death & Transfiguration
Tchaikovsky -- Swan Lake, 6th symphony
Prokofiev -- Romeo & Juliet, 5th symphony (particularly the finale), Alexander Nevsky
Stravinsky -- Rite of Spring
Sibelius -- 2nd symphony
Wagner -- Siegfried's funeral music; Tannhauser ovt., Parsifal
Quote from: mikkeljs on December 27, 2007, 04:54:18 AM
Granados: the La maja "something" from Goyescas.
this is wonderful. it's the 4th, I just listened to it.
I'd include Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen, which I've been listening to quite a lot recently.
Some examples:
joy: Mozart K488, 3rd movement closing section; Haydn, 98th symphony first movement
beauty: Strauss, Death & Transfiguration (as jwinter mentioned. if you are ill or sad, listen to that!); Brahms 1st piano concerto; Dvorak Op. 104
power, euphoria: Schubert, 2nd symphony and 4th symphony (last movement) [Harnoncourt]; Dvorak 8th symphony
etc. etc.
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde comes to mind.
Brahms: Symphony No 4 (especially Kleiber, Vienna)
Puccini: La boheme
Also, the CD "Wladyslaw Szpilman: Original Recordings of The Pianist", particularly the concluding one-two punch of Bach's D minor Chaconne and Chopin's posthumous Nocturne in C sharp minor. Wow ... almost reduces me to tears.
Quote from: sidoze on December 27, 2007, 11:38:21 AM
I'd include Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen, which I've been listening to quite a lot recently.
Yes, that's a great one! One of the very few R. Strauss works that I actually like.
Anything by any composer whose name begins with 'B'. ;D
Sadness
- Mozart Sonata in E minor (K304) for Violin and Piano, 2nd movement
Excitement
- Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3
Contentment
- Vivaldi Four Seasons - Winter, 2nd movement
Beethoven, Opus 130-133 and Sonatas 29-32 (1st Juilliard Quartet and Arrau or Gilels)
Sibelius Symphonies 4-6 and Tapiola (Vanska/Lahti Orchestra)
Bach - 6th Cello Suite (Starker), Goldbergs (Gould 1981)
Dvorak Cello Concerto (Du Pre/Barenboim)
That's a start!
Lili Boulanger -- D'un soir triste
Seems to sum up man's struggle for immortality against death.
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Beethoven's 9th is the only work that has ever drawn tears from me, and always in the last movement.
Quote from: spaghetti on January 10, 2008, 09:06:39 AMTapiola (Vanska/Lahti Orchestra)
AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. :D I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/21/1446950/Tapiola.mp3[/mp3]
And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.
Quote from: Wurstwasser on January 11, 2008, 06:26:57 AM
AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. :D I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:
[mp3=200,20,0,left]http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/21/1446950/Tapiola.mp3[/mp3]
And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.
I probably should have added that to my list as well.
Quote from: Wurstwasser on January 11, 2008, 06:26:57 AM
AH! Another Tapiolist! Can you explain why Tapiola? You can add me here. :D I like Blomstedts/SFSO Tapiola much more...
It's the constant mysterious mood. The whole conclusion, starting with the long violin storm like crescendo kills me:
And the final sweet conclusion, sooo nice. A masterpiece.
Yes, it's probably the most frightening piece of music I know! (Fear is considered an emotion, right? :) ) It's intensely visual, and to me it sounds very ancient and primordial. It's nature in her most impassive and uncaring state, very pre-Christian. Hopefully one day I'll be able to hear it live! I haven't heard Blomstedt's, but then I only have two recordings of it, Vanska and Segerstam. I like Vanska's because everything is icy clear, for me the most important quality of a Sibelius recording.
The Ouvertures to both Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and J. Haydn's La Fidelta Premiata rouse me to happy, energized heights every time I hear them.
Shostakovich: 10th Symphony, 5th symphony (Especially the Largo), 14th Symphony
Pettersson: 7th and 8th symphonies.
Dvorak: 8th and 9th Symphonies.
Atterberg: 5th Symphony
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite, 1st piano Concerto.
Berlioz: Requiem, Symphonie Fantastique
Schumann: 3rd and 4th Symphonies
Hm, different music (and the ways it's being conducted, sung and played) regards to different emotions...so sometimes you fall in love with the piece, and next time the conductor does something that is beyond the edge of good and evil and you find hatred in your heart...or it just doesn't touch you much.
I'd better say what piece and what interpretation of music evokes the strongest emotions in me. :)
Quote from: A Deceptive Ring of Fire on January 11, 2008, 05:44:35 PMAtterberg: 5th Symphony
Oh, I should have added this. Because of the climactical Lento. Soooo sad. But ending in complete peace.
OK, a partial list-- all of these pieces move me DEEPLY, more so than others:
These ALWAYS make me cry:
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon (this one will ALWAYS make me cry, especially at "O clasp we to our hearts...")
Ravel: The Fairy Garden from the Mother Goose suite for orchestra (this one will ALWAYS make me cry from start to finish, its unbearably beautiful)
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (many bouts of crying in this for me)
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (ALWAYS makes me cry)
And these often move me to tears, or at least gets my heart racing:
Bach: Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1
Bach: Aria from the Goldberg Variations
Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14
Beethoven: Finale from Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: the third movement from String Quartet No. 16
Schubert: Nacht und Traume
Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
Shostakovich: the second movement from his Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (which sometimes makes me cry)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Palestine: Schlingen-Blangen (when I listen to it LOUDLY)
Adams: the third movement from Harmonielehre
Faure: Pie Jesu from his Requiem
Durufle: Ubi Caritas
Kedrov: Our Father
I should stop. :P I could keep going...
Let's see what there is...
"Ave Maria"
"O mio babbino caro"
Shostakovich's 8th symphony (his best, IMO)
The Gadfly Suite
Scheherazade
Alexander Nevsky Suite, specifically the "Battle on the Ice"
"Final Scene" from Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony
Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss' 1st Horn Concerto
Franz Strauss' "Nocturne" for Horn and Piano
Ives' 2nd symphony
"Decoration Day" and "The Fourth of July" from Ives' Holiday Symphony
Overture to Tannhäuser
Feste Romane
Final movement from "Billy the Kid"
Estancia
That's quite a list, I suppose...
Dvorak 8th and 9th,
Holst's Second Suite in F part II.
A few....
Sibelius 7
Bruckner 9
Bruckner 3
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1
Pettersson 9
Sibelius 5
Shostakovich 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler 1
Schumann Violin Concerto
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Mahler 9
Glass Violin Concerto
Brahms first Symphony, as done by Karajan's seventies recording, and the same with Tjaikovsky's 6th symphony, as done by Karajan in the sixties recordings.
On DGG.
Specific movements:
Brahms - Symphony 1, 1st mvt.
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 13, 5th mvt.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3, 2nd mvt.
Schubert - Fantasie for four hand piano in F minor, D.940
Bruckner - Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt.
Schubert - Winter's Journey - 1st mvt.
Mozart - Symphony No. 40 1st and 2nd mvt.
Brahms - Piano Concerto # 1, 2nd mvt.
Mahler - Symphony No. 5, 4th mvt.
Schubert - String Quintet D.956, 3rd mvt.
Haydn - Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, 3rd mvt.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, 1st mvt.
the list is very long....
Quote from: Harry on January 30, 2008, 09:35:32 AM
Brahms first Symphony, as done by Karajan's seventies recording
Fantastic recording. I second that one.
Nice, if almost "antique" thread ... One answer could be Pettersson´s 2nd Violin Concerto, the Ida Haendel recording, not the poor Van Keulen one. Some other life-long friends, rich and diversified travels in their emotional content, are Bruckner VIII/Haitink (his 1st digital recording), Brahms 1st Cto., Medtner 3rd Concerto/Ponti and Messiaen Des Canyons aux Etoiles/Constant, the Liszt Sonata, Sibelius VI/Karajan DG and IV, Prokofiev 4th Concerto/Krainev.
"Das Lied von der Erde", nothing comes near it for emotional impact, imho
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It's quite hard to choose, every piece I listen to evokes strong emotions and deeply strikes me; it's impossible for me to not feel extremely involved by the great beauty and power of music.
But maybe, as Richard Wagner is my favourite composer, my strongest emotions are evoked by "Der Ring des Nibelungen" or "Tristan und Isolde".
Ilaria
Late Beethoven does it for me more then any other composer.
I'll give a few that have been the strongest for me in the past several years or so...
Monteverdi: "Pur ti miro" from L'incoronazione Di Poppea
Dowland: Flow, my tears
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Bruckner: Adagios from Symphonies No. 5, 6 & 7
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols/Rejoice in the Lamb
Prokofiev: Toccata Op.11
Haydn: Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Lang: The Match Girl Passion
and to put me in a really good mood...
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no 2/H 3 no 38 "Joke"
A few works that really won my heart over this past year:
Koechlin: Le buisson ardent Parts I & II
Koechlin: Le Docteur Fabricius
Koechlin: Three Melodies
Koechlin: Vers la Voûte étoilée
Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing (I've known this work for a few years but this year it really hit me)
Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba
Schmitt: Psaume 47
Pierne: L'An Mil
Pierne: Cydalise Et Le Chevre-Pied
Ginastera: Estancia (complete ballet)
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Parsifal
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Children's Corner (orchestrated version)
Ravel: Piano Trio
Ravel: Sheherazade
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (an ear-opener for me though I've known it for years)
Britten: Diversions