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Your favorite Emotive classical?

post #1 of 20
8/28/09 at 3:05pm
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Im talking music that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, gives you the chills or might even make you shed a tear or two.

A couple that for me, are incredibly emotional pieces of music:

Arvo Part-Symphony #3, Lamentate
Gorecki-Symphony #3
Philip Glass-Violin Concerto
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post #2 of 20
8/28/09 at 3:40pm
A very obvious one but very good anyways,

Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C sharp minor
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post #3 of 20
8/28/09 at 4:15pm
"Emotive classical" is a new tag to me, but some candidates spring to mind. The opening movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto, for example. And the slow movement of Shostakovich's second Piano Concerto. And the Fantasia on the Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams.

I generally get closest to tears, though, with the finale (last six minutes) of A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett. I'll be having that at my funeral to compensate for any lack of proper emotion in my mourners!
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post #4 of 20
8/29/09 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by jinp6301 View Post
A very obvious one but very good anyways,

Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C sharp minor
Would you recommend all the preludes?

Not on the same level, but as far as emotive piano is concerned, Ludovico Einaudi's works are a must listen.
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post #5 of 20
8/29/09 at 5:05pm
Barber's Adagio for Strings. Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead. Mozart's 20th piano concerto. Bach's Cello Suite #1. Brahm,s 2nd Piano Concerto and his 3rd Symphony. Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet. Schnittke's 2nd String Quartet. In fact, almost all classical music is emotional, you just have to listen for it.
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post #6 of 20
8/29/09 at 5:18pm
Erik Satie's Gymnopedies make me ball every time.

I thought it a most judicious choice of music for a Star Trek Next gen. episode where Picard sets the auto destruct sequence on the Enterprise rather than give in to some jello alien.
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post #7 of 20
8/29/09 at 5:24pm
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Would you recommend all the preludes?

Not on the same level, but as far as emotive piano is concerned, Ludovico Einaudi's works are a must listen.
Whoops! Wasnt paying attention when I posted that

I meant Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 3, no. 2
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post #8 of 20
8/30/09 at 1:45am
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, 1st mvt, Allegro molto appassionato

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt, Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

Mozart's 25th and 40th Symphony, and obviously, Beethoven's 5th.
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post #9 of 20
8/30/09 at 12:26pm
Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words for Cello and Piano
Barber, Adagio for Strings
Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Mvts 3 and 4
Rachmaninoff, Vocalise
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
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post #10 of 20
8/30/09 at 12:40pm
Love the Gymnopodies, too.

Górecki's a no-brainer.

I've heard very little Gidon Kremer that doesn't excite me, but his album of compositions by Enescu, Schulhoff and Bartok is particularly stunning.

I'm crazy, crazy, kray-zy about Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's Bach Cantatas.

Someone played me a gorgeous passage from Mozart's "Requiem" last night...kind of amazed me because other intepretations I'd heard left me cold. There were things in his writing for clarinet that reminded me of the way Arvo Pärt utilizes organ in "Pari Intervallo".
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post #11 of 20
8/30/09 at 2:58pm
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Górecki's a no-brainer.
True in so many ways.
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post #12 of 20
8/31/09 at 2:40am
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Love the Gymnopodies, too.

Górecki's a no-brainer.

I've heard very little Gidon Kremer that doesn't excite me, but his album of compositions by Enescu, Schulhoff and Bartok is particularly stunning.

I'm crazy, crazy, kray-zy about Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's Bach Cantatas.

Someone played me a gorgeous passage from Mozart's "Requiem" last night...kind of amazed me because other intepretations I'd heard left me cold. There were things in his writing for clarinet that reminded me of the way Arvo Pärt utilizes organ in "Pari Intervallo".
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True in so many ways.
All I have is his 3rd Symphony.
What next?

Id prefer something without vocals.
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post #13 of 20
8/31/09 at 3:03am
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True in so many ways.
What ways?
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post #14 of 20
8/31/09 at 3:50am
Arvo Part's Alina
Beethoven's Seventh
Berlioz' Symphony Fantastique

And pretty much anything by Bach. Which is funny, since I didn't like anything by Bach until I was about 23 or 24. Then, one day listening to the radio, it hit. Strangest thing, I can't explain it. I went and bought some CDs, Bach connected, and I've been listening since. Bach might sound mechanical on the surface, but there are deep passions and emotion in everything he composed.
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post #15 of 20
8/31/09 at 6:45am
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All I have is his 3rd Symphony.
What next?

Id prefer something without vocals.
Gorecki's 4th Symphony is meant to be premiered soon I think, but if you're looking for something similar to the 3rd his other current orchestral works probably won't do it for you. Personally I like his chamber music alot, especially the String Quartets.

I think my favourite tear-jerker has to be the slow movement from Shostakovich 5, especially Bernstein's NYPO recording.
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