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Post by MartinT on Mar 17, 2020 18:45:54 GMT
There have been movements written in classical music that simply exceed the pinnacles of almost anything written by that composer. Not bang-and-crash spectaculars, just music that grips your soul and doesn't let go.
Here's one to start with: the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem. Heart-rending doesn't even cover it. How do you create music like this?
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Post by Clive on Mar 17, 2020 20:07:36 GMT
It's not my area but how about Handel.. Messiah / Hosanna in Excelsis?
We sang a whole school concert,there was a whole term of practise, we did the whole of The Messiah.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 17, 2020 20:29:10 GMT
Mahler's 5th - 4th movement (Adagiatto) Bernstein does a bang-up (live) job on it, i.m.h.o.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 17, 2020 20:38:29 GMT
The final movement of Mahler's 8th which is still the greatest piece of music ever written in my somewhat biased and uneducated opinion.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 17, 2020 23:30:06 GMT
What comes to my mind is the 2nd Movement of Shosta 10 - an absolute monster.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2020 2:49:42 GMT
What comes to my mind is the 2nd Movement of Shosta 10 - an absolute monster. Yep - I was getting to that one! |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2020 2:52:28 GMT
Beethoven 7th Second Movement
I first heard this music from the film Zardoz and it stuck with me ever since. The Beethoven darkness combined with a slow build-up of strings that eventually soar is another piece of gobsmacking composing that no mortal could ever have created.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 18, 2020 10:38:13 GMT
Brahms 3 - 3rd movement.
Always gets to me ...
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2020 20:08:55 GMT
Respighi - Pines of Rome, Pines of the Appian Way
Wonderfully evocative imagery, stunning slow build-up, blaring brass and those organ pedals (small speakers need not apply)!
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Post by jandl100 on Mar 19, 2020 7:52:45 GMT
How about a single movement work - this one cerebral as well as beautiful and powerful - and under Stokowski's baton an amazing buildup from the opening solo oboe to to the brass dominated final orchestral peroration.
This YT vid is an amazing historical document as well.
Not ideal sound, but spine tingling for me.
Bach's "Little Fugue" BWV578
Stokie in better sound can be found here ...
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