Please share your...

Posted by: sonic on 22 September 2012

most favourite emotional classical music pieces.

The one that gets you everytime you play it and moves you emotionally.

Here is mine:

Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 F major, Op. 102 2nd Movement.

I hope to discover and learn more about classical music from you.

Please post.

All the best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPFSCW21j0

Thank you!

Posted on: 22 September 2012 by GraemeH

Elgar cello concerto E minor. Jacqueline Du Pre.  G

Posted on: 22 September 2012 by Paper Plane
Originally Posted by GraemeH:

Elgar cello concerto E minor. Jacqueline Du Pre.  G

+ 1

 

Also Arvo Part's Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten

 

Both pieces are capable of moving me to tears.

 

steve

Posted on: 22 September 2012 by George Fredrik

Mache dich mein herze rein ...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

 

And this performance with Benjamin Luxom would take some beating as a recording.

 

Make pure mine heart within me ...

 

I find it unlistenably sad some days. Others, I just cry. Truly Bach understood the human condition ...

 

ATB from George

Posted on: 22 September 2012 by fatcat

Ravel's Le Gibet. Simply Beautiful.

 

 

 

 

Does anybody else get a "Date a Russian Beauty" popup when they watch the link in the OP, or is it just me.

Posted on: 22 September 2012 by sonic

Thank you for all your replies and beautiful music.

Now I will have to buy more cd´s

 

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by EJS

 

So much music for so many moods... but one piece that always makes it up the list is Grieg's Peer Gynt. You usually only hear the suites (which are separate compositions but borrow all their material from the main composition), but the complete music is the real McCoy. And then there is this recording, which contains almost all the music, but on a single disc. Excellently performed and recorded.

 

Cheers,

 

EJ

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by graham55

DG have released all their Carlos Kleiber (few) recordings in a box for not a lot of money.

 

Unmatchable recordings of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, Brahms's Fourth, Schubert's Unfinished, plus Wagner's Tristan, Weber's Freischuetz, a wonderful Traviata (Verdi), and Die Fledermauss.

 

CK was arguably the greatest conductor of the last Century, so you can't go far wrong!

G 

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by Gale 401

This wonderful album gets me every time i play it.

It never fails to bring grown men to tears.

Stu.

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by Wugged Woy

 

Schumann - Fantasie Op. 17. Robert's love letter to Clara. Tears every time.

 

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by Massimo Bertola

Strauss, Ein Heldenleben; after the >battle<, the main theme is gloriously resumed and this time horns (8) contrapunct the violins' melody, with one of their own, at the beginning of the second half of the long motive.

Each time I sing along with the horns, in full voice, their winding and difficult part until the final climax, a high E flat, and although my wife laughs, each time I have a sort of small ecstasy.

 

I know it's somehow gross and not very romantic, but it gets me every time.

 

 

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by Massimo Bertola

As for tears, Bruckner's Benedictus from his F minor Mass.

M.

 

Posted on: 23 September 2012 by jfritzen

Mahlers 9th symphony, 4th movement, performed e.g. by Gary Bertini and the Kölner Rundfunksinfonieorchester. Deeply captivating.