[Agent Kang]

What's your favorite slow movement?

I absolutely love:

LvB's opening adagio on String Quartet Op. 131 (vegh)
Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (ferrier)
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 - adagio (fleisher/szell)
3rd movement of Bruckner's 8th (Giulini)
3rd movement of LvB's hammerklavier (Gilels)
The adagio from Shosta's 7th & 11th,and largo from his 5th (haitink)
Tchaikovsky's 1st,2nd mvmt.
Schubert's d.960, opening movement (richter)

The list can go on forever but I'll stop here.

 

[vcoheda]

1st one that comes to mind is the adagio from mozart's piano concerto no. 23. i like the Jando version.

http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Piano-C...3727310&sr=1-1

that an the final movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, the Pathetique, as performed by Leonard Bernstein.

http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Sy...727485&sr=1-10

 

[Sordel]

Ah ... another random favourite thread to contribute to!

I'd go for the Andante from Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. It's a frightful rip-off of the Adagio from Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (in structure and style, at least), but I can't help thinking that it's even more beautiful. The recording that I have is the very old one with Bernstein conducting from the piano.

 

[mbhaub]

First thing that came to mind: the 3rd movement of Balakirev's First Symphony. Something is very beautiful, nostalgic and evocative in that clarinet solo.
Other slow movements to die for:
Elgar symphonies 1 & 2
Mahler 6th, Andante
Mahler 3rd, 3rd movement
Schmidt 3rd symphony, 2nd movement
Schumann 2nd symphony

 

[eyeresist]

Hard to say of the top of my head, but I'd have to mention the adagio from Bruckner's 9th, the Wagnerian andante from Dvorak's 4th, and the andante from Prokofiev's 4th symphony. Does Elgar's 'Nimrod' count as well?

 

[LarryK2]

. . . the Molto Adagio ("Heiliger Dankesang eines Genesenen an die Gott heit, in der lydischen Tonart" - "Song of Thanksgiving from a convalescent to the Godhead in the Lydian Mode " from the Opus 132 String Quartet in a minor. We learn more about Beethoven's spiritual/mystical life here that we do in his "Missa solemnis" for instance.

 

[Assorted]

There are too many, but something I keep running in my head is the Largo ma non tanto in F from the Bach Double for Violins. At the height of Baroque and a new sprout of homophony.