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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Jupiter, the Bringer of Joy from The Planets by Gustav Holst
Also:
Violin Concerto No. 8 in D Major, 3rd Movement by Johannes Brahms
Rakoczi March from The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz
This is my signature. There are many like it, but it is mine.
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
The slow movement from Beethoven's 7th Symphony
shareStairway To Heaven.
End of passion play, crumbling away. I'm your source of self-destruction.
Mozart is my favourite composer - for his whole body of work.
However, it is Beethoven who takes first (and second) place:
1. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat major Op. 73 Adagio. If they don't play this at my funeral, someone's getting haunted.
2. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor Op. 27 Adagio (Moonlight sonata). Not just because it's beautiful, but also because my dad used to play this.
3. Mahler Symphony No. 5 Adagietto. Seriously, how could anyone hear this piece and not be a blubbering mess on the floor? Salieri speaks of "such longing, such unfulfillable longing" - listen to this and tell me about unfulfillable longing. Just don't listen to this after someone you love has dumped you!
So put some spice in my sauce, honey in my tea, an ace up my sleeve and a slinkyplanb
40th symphony 2nd movement. That way the music swells with the sad yet joyful and hopeful notes. It's moving.
shareMussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, 9th Symphony
Mozart's Requiem. The Magic Flute
Zbigniew Preisner - Lacrymosa
Bizet - Habanera
Anything from Debussy, Chopin and Schubert.
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9
I love that one and didn't see it mentioned yet.
Haydn London Symphonies - Don't remember the No's
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 and most of the symphonies
I could end up listing hundreds but there are a few that came to mind.