I know most of us here like classical music and there are some performers here. I have a question: What is the single classical composition that touches you the most deeply?
I'm not a particular sensitive person but I'll start this off by citing a a work that reduces me to a quivering blob of protoplasm. From Jules Massenet's Thaïs, the beautiful Méditation for violin.
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Carl Nielsen: Helios overture
Alan Hovhaness: Prayer of St. Gregory
Henryk Górecki: Symphony 3 - Lento e largo—Tranquillissimo
Bela Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste II. Allegro
without a doubt, Dance of the Knights AKA Montagues and Capulets by Sergei Prokofiev. it so f-ckin amazing, it's like a punch in the gut everytime i hear it. never heard something so powerful. the first time i heard is when i saw Caligula (also a brilliant film) and i was awestruck. i also love Fur Elise, Requiem and The Barber of Seville overture.
“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
- Rimbaud
Maybe not my favourite but. Gustav Holst Planet Suite: Saturn, Bringer of Old Age.
The second half is the pure enlightenment and profound wisdom!
Edvard Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907)a pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16.
Each time I hear it, I want to play it at full volume. It moves me, inspires me and creates an emotional response that lingers...
Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #3--
the second and third movements.
takes me on a tour of emotions, from sadness to absolute triumph.
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Another voice for Saint Saens' Third Symphony - we used the opening of the final movement for my daughter's wedding processional.
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Is there no love for Schubert's Symphony No.8 "Unfinished"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t12EAoed3D0&feature=fvsr
krzysztof penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. I've never heard a piece of music more intense than this in my life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig
Dance of the Tumblers by Tchaikovsky is definitely up there, as well as In The Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg and Trout Quintet by Schubert. Definitely a Romantic era fan here!
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