Pieces that make you jump and down with the happiest of joy! :D

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EigenUser

#40
July 27, 2014, 03:40:39 PM
...and we await the resurrection of the thread...

Some sections in some pieces that make me particularly ecstatic:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/60v3bnaqz1mdt8l/BartokPC1.mp3[/audio]

and while we're at it:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/7t4xot6il36hoyg/BartokPC2-10.mp3[/audio]

[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0iwxr55fqimyuio/ChamberSymphony.mp3[/audio]

Especially the last run in the violins:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/oohp4mmyc878e8a/Jeux.mp3[/audio]
I love pentatonic scales...

...which would explain why I like this:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/15dt4pyjq0hm73n/LaMer1.mp3[/audio]

An almost-Caribbean-flavored section in this work:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8qrr2ez9fosrplx/LigetiPC.mp3[/audio]

[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/e3nsz8cpthd6cth/MissaSolemnis.mp3[/audio]

[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/uisfeyaibbrfg9v/RavelValsesNobles.mp3[/audio]

[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/zb2i40p9c9djq7b/Asyla.mp3[/audio]

Not surprisingly, of course:
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/f79aafz66m6qjxt/Turangalila.mp3[/audio]
I love how the theme emerges from chaos -- and then changes key!

I saw someone mentioned the 2nd movement of Mahler 1. I agree.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

andolink

#41
July 27, 2014, 04:05:20 PM
Robert Schumann's 3rd String Quartet is pure joyous musical inventiveness!
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bigshot

#42
July 27, 2014, 06:32:50 PM
From the very first brass fanfare to the very end, Fiedler's Gaitie Parisienne makes me smile all the way through. (I might even hop up and jump for joy for it on occasion too!) Same goes for Rossini overtures by Davis and Auber and von Suppe by Paray.

The new erato

#43
July 27, 2014, 11:08:49 PM
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Major, Opus 130: II. Presto

Such a perfect, concise and joyful piece.

Ten thumbs

#44
September 01, 2014, 07:20:14 AM
Maybe joyful pieces don't get the recognition they deserve; here is another that makes me want to dance:

Stephen Heller - 4 Laendler (sic) Opus 107 No.4
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

Brian

#45
September 01, 2014, 07:48:46 AM
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3
Brahms - Symphony No. 2 (finale)
Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Te Deum
Schumann - Piano Quintet
Smetana - The Moldau

Overall, I think the best composers of pure joy are Dvorak and Haydn.

EigenUser

#46
September 01, 2014, 11:21:58 AM
Quote from: Brian on September 01, 2014, 07:48:46 AM
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3
Brahms - Symphony No. 2 (finale)
Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Te Deum
Schumann - Piano Quintet
Smetana - The Moldau

Overall, I think the best composers of pure joy are Dvorak and Haydn.
Agreed, but add Messiaen. Though, his joy is frequently and abruptly interrupted by bouts of savage terror. But when he is being joyous, his music is some of the most joyous I've ever heard.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

Daverz

#47
September 01, 2014, 03:18:31 PM
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