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Author: clockwiser
Date: 2007-05-25 12:16
What clarinet solo pieces have the most emotional impact on you?
I does not have to be in a particular period.
My vote goes to:
Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 2. 2nd movement Allegro Appassionato
Rachmaninoff - Vacalist (transcription)
Messager - Solo de Concour
What's your opinions?
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2007-05-25 12:51
I've to agree with the pieces below:
Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 2. 2nd movement Allegro Appassionato
Messager - Solo de Concour
Weber - Concerto for clarinet and orchestra n° 1 2nd movement Adagio
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-05-25 13:13
Some really hard etudes make me cry with frustration when I practice them, but I don't think this is what you mean.
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Author: William
Date: 2007-05-25 13:24
For me, it's the 2nd movt of Mozart's Clarinet CONCERTO in A. No other music makes out favorite instrument sound more beautiful.
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Author: Clarinetcola
Date: 2007-05-25 14:11
MOZART's adagio from clarinet quintet made my girlfriend cry in the concert. Mozart + clarinet's the best! sob``
Nathan
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-05-25 14:20
Gorecki: Symphony #3
Barber: Overture: The School for Scandal
Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-05-25 14:26
Rameau's Gavotte and Doubles
(I heard a version with clarinet and piano, and one with four saxes (!). Spine-tingling, and makes my neck hair bristle each time)
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Ben
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Author: Bill
Date: 2007-05-25 14:35
Joseph Holbrooke, Cl Quintet in G, second movement. As played by him (Kell).
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2007-05-25 14:48
No cries so far, but I get goose bumps hearing Stravinsky Rite of Spring.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2007-05-25 14:55
Yeah, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 is really quite something. I also like Jacques Ibert's 'Aria.' Not a difficult piece at all but beautiful.
Another piece that really gives me the chills is Penderecki's Threnody. Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is, by far, one of the most emotional pieces I've ever heard...ever. It takes some ears of steel to get through the whole thing, though - you have been warned (to the virgin ears who've never heard this piece).
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Author: bufclar
Date: 2007-05-25 15:34
The piece thats always gets me is the third movement of Pines of Rome. The bird calls get me everytime.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-05-25 16:47
No cries, but I was DEFINITELY very emotionally moved when I first heard the second movement of the Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: Romanza. First time I heard it played, I pulled over to the side of the road and just sat there while it played. And I still love it.
Alexi
PS - It was of Stanley Drucker playing and it's still my favorite version from what I heard.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Mags1957
Date: 2007-05-25 16:59
2nd Movement of Mozart- no question, but also:
2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th
Barber Adagio
Most of Tchaikovsky's 6th
October by Eric Whitacre
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-05-25 17:21
I don't think I've ever cried from just listening to music. I cried a few times in live concerts, mostly because of the performers, and not the music itself. I cried in a concert of Giora Feidman, but because of a story he told, and the outer-musical ideas of his playing. Some music does cause me very strong emotions, but different from the emotions that make me cry. Maybe "goose bumps" like Sylvain calls it is a good name for it. It is a "burst" of emotion, very positive, like you are in extasy. A few examples I remember right now are Rite Of Spring, Petruchka, Ravel piano concert (end of first movement), parts of Double Trio - Green Dolphy Suite, some things of Evan Parker, etc. etc.
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2007-05-25 17:49
Have to agree about the Adagio from the Mozart concerto. When my teacher from junior and high school passed away a few years ago the family wanted that Adagio played at his funeral. They ended up with a clarinetist who had not studied with him, because his former students that were asked didn't think they could make it through the piece at the funeral.
Barb
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Author: musiciandave
Date: 2007-05-25 18:44
The finale mvt of Mahler's Sym #2 brings tears to my eyes.
Albinoni Adagio would be another tear jerker.
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Author: ClarinetTex
Date: 2007-05-25 22:51
Brahms clarinet sonatas
2nd movement of Weber's Grand Duo Concertant
2nd movement of Rabauds Solo de Concours
Shepherd on the Rock-although, it's also for soprano and piano, it's divine
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Author: musica
Date: 2007-05-26 00:23
Copland Clarinet Concerto/opening section does it for me......
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-05-26 01:21
Mark Charette wrote:
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A more interesting question, perhaps, is why certain pieces made you cry (or laugh, or fall down, or ...)
I know that in the last couple of hours I've spent trying to figure out just why particular pieces strike me a certain way, or if perhaps there's some commonality in my particular choices, and if so, will I feel the same if I hear a new piece that has the same common theme?
Or, if there is a common theme, does knowing/learning about/studying the theme change the way I feel about the pieces?
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-05-26 04:47
Mark, one local professor, who is actually a professor of acoustics (and other things), studied and keep studying what you describe. She said that after really digging deep into it she came to the conclusion that there are common principles that cause different emotions in music. These principles are usually ones that are more basic than the style of music (i.e. it can be in any style). Of course the specific way it is in certain music is also important (i.e. the same principle won't always have the same effect, depending on how it is used). When she started this (she is now over 80) she was the only person who thought like that, but there are slowly more people who agree with her.
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2007-05-26 05:00
Sounds an aweful lot like the recent thread on accoustical resonances and pitches. This seems very similar - where a certain resonance or, seemingly more appropriately, timbre or style may trigger an emotional response (in this case crying) just like a certain acoustical pitch may cause an object to resonate.
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Author: clockwiser
Date: 2007-05-26 09:38
why is it always those movment named "Romanze" "Adagio" "Appassionato"... to be the most emotional movements?
p.s I also like the first movement of the Brahms 2nd sonata.
Also, Fantasiestucke, Schumann op. 73 no.1 especially
Post Edited (2007-05-26 09:50)
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Author: awm34
Date: 2007-05-26 11:39
I played the Adagio of the Mozart at the memorial service for my sister last Saturday (unaccompanied). Many of the more than 200 present felt the service wouldn't have been complete without it.
Alan Messer
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-05-26 13:07
"They're playing our song." The circumstances or venue present when you first heard a particular piece of music certainly are factors. My eyes tear up everytime I hear or play "Stars and Stripes Forever".
Bob Draznik
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2007-05-26 18:35
Yes, that's certainly true. Any sort of association may trigger a response. My aunt's high school band director was murdered and one of the pieces she fondly remembers playing was Hanson's "Merry Mount Suite." When I played it at a state band festival she said the tears just kept coming.
For my Dad, it's Silent Night.
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Author: LeeB
Date: 2007-05-26 19:01
In a somewhat different vein, I've always been floored by the John Dankworth duet arrangement of "Thieving Boy" that he performed with his wife, singer Cleo Laine. It's sad, plaintive and virtuosic at the same time. I wonder if it has ever been published.
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Author: Ebclarinet1
Date: 2007-05-26 22:45
Maybe because I play ALL the woodwinds (and have played these pieces in groups), I have a longer list that makes me emotional, although maybe not to tears, certainly goosebumps.
Largo from the New World Symphony
Mahler #1 First and second movements
Adagio from the Mozart Clarinet concerto
Bolero
Daphnis and Chloe suites 1& 2
Shostakovlch #5
Resphigi Pines, Fountains and Festivals of Rome
Bernstein Overture to Candide
In the steppes of Central Asia Borodin
I realoize that thos may be FAR from anyone else's top ten! Eclectic I am.
Eefer guy
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Author: Katelyn
Date: 2007-05-27 00:14
It's not a solo piece, but my director tears up for "Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss." He had taken the band from his previous school to a competition. The night before the flute soloist was driving up with her boyfriend and was killed in a car wreck.
I can't remember what it's called, but there was a solo clarinet piece I heard on my local classical station's "From the Top" program that threw me out of my rut and made me fall in love with playing again.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-05-27 02:13
I almost always get choked up in the Second Movement of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. If its well performed, the incredible sonorities of the orchestra coming in Tutti and then backing out for the clarinet to come to the fore again will just take the wind out of my sails.
Unfortunately, when that happens, and I'm the performer, its difficult to continue playing!
One of our BB members once asked me if I was crying just because my playing was so bad --and that happens, too.
I had the bad experience of having to stop and recover the first time I managed to actually PLAY the Mozart Kegelstadt Trio (viola, pia, clarinet). Fortunately, no audience at that rehearsal.
This demonstrates to me either my personal weakness or the power of music; but Mozart and Brahms seem to hurt the best.
Bob Phillips
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-05-27 03:14
When played well, the solo from The Pines of The Janiculum (3rd mvt. Pines of Rome).
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Author: Dano
Date: 2007-05-27 03:32
I think it all depends on where I am in my life when I hear that certain piece. What is it about music in general, other than lyrics, that would make us cry? That.....is the million dollar question. I am amazed that classical music is what most people say makes them cry. I can see that there are not very many jazz musicians here. At least not on this thread....yet?
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Author: Bill G
Date: 2007-05-27 03:50
Dano, there jazz musiocians on this, but in my experience the most moving jazz pieces are inextricably linked to a performer rather than to a composition. For instance, Charles Mingus' "Pithicanthus Erectus" moves me to a primal response. But is it the composition or the performance?
Of course there are compositions such as Thad Jones "A Child is Born" or Ellington's "Come Sunday" that in the hands of various performers evoke a response.
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Author: Dano
Date: 2007-05-27 04:06
Bill G, you are correct. I think I should have added that it depends on who plays the piece that brings you to tears. There is a difference between listening to an elementary school group play "The Look of Love" and Stan Getz play it.
I think that certain chord changes put together bring me to that emotional level but it does depend on the individual musician to actually get me to the point of tears. Lyrics aside, Stevie Wonder has that quality in his music.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-05-27 05:52
Nimrod from Enigma Variations always brings a tear, and has done so for a long time. The sustained note (violins I believe) that introduces the movement is enough to get me going.
I recently attended a funeral where Nimrod was played as the organ postlude. Not very many days later I had to perform same. It was all I could do to get through it.
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2007-05-27 07:15
I played the slow movement from the Copland concerto for my grandfather's funeral. I don't know that I could make it through again in performance.
As for pure chills though, I still love the Finzi concerto. In the first movement the run down and back up (just before it slows down considerably). In the second movement especially in the two areas where eighth notes walk up slowly, climax (first time is a high C, second time at the end is the A just below it). And, of course, the very end of the third movement. I wish I had my score to look up measure numbers.
-Andy Cabrera
a.l.cabrera@gmail.com
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Author: rc_clarinetlady
Date: 2007-05-27 19:27
For me it's the energy of everything coming together at once that brings on the tears. The people, the place and the performance.
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral- Wagner
I was first chair cl. in high school. My band director was so passionate about this piece. He was killed in a car accident several years later. This one always brings a tear. It's also just a gorgeous piece.
Adagio- Mozart K. 622
1 at district, 1 at state on this one. Beautiful piece of music.
Pie Jesu-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Picture Long's Peak in Rocky Mtn. National Park, a light snow falling and Charlotte Church's young voice coming over PBS with this song. It was a powerful moment for me.
Symphony #7; second mvt.- Beethoven
Symphony #2 - Hanson
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Author: larryb
Date: 2007-05-27 19:53
The Larghetto in the second act finale of Cosi fan Tutte. Clarinet has a prominent role, but this piece is about the sudden suspension of time and space that allows for one of the most sublimely beautiful canons in all music.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-05-27 20:16
Beethoven - Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 1 In C Major, Second movement (Largo) -
The great emotional interplay between the piano and solo clarinet...GBK
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Author: Rivers
Date: 2007-05-28 11:21
From Tosca...both the clarinet solo and aria "E lucevan le stelle" does it to me everytime
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-05-28 16:37
Most recently, the beginning of the Larghetto movement to Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.
Also,
Der Rosenkavalier: The Presentation of the Rose
Camilleri, Concertino for Clarinet: 2nd Movement
And add me to the list:
Mozart, Clarinet Concerto: Adagio
Silent Night
Elgar, Enigma Variations: Nimrod
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-05-28 17:19
I haven't found but one clarinet piece that hits me that way . . . a real slow and plaintive "Old Black Joe" that I have heard on the radio a couple times, but never heard who did it. It sounded like it was played at a distance or at the end of a tunnel.
The other tear jerkers for me weren't clarinet-specific pieces - they just break me up, maybe more due to the context in which they are performed rather than the music itself:
"You'll Never Walk Alone" from "Carousel"
"Un Bel Di Vedremo" from "Madame Butterfly"
The swamp scene music at the end of "Giselle"
I suppose those tunes have been published as clarinet-based pieces and would love to hear them as such . . . I would probably still cry! Eu
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-05-28 19:34
OUCH
I just "got" the Brahms Sonata, #2, 2nd movement. I'm out of kleenex and our of lower lip and had to stop practicing for the day.
Bob Phillips
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Author: coelurajry
Date: 2007-05-29 00:22
Mine would have to be Dvorak's Symphony No. 9. I get goosebumps every time, too! Although the movie "Sybil" kind of ruined it for me. :-(
Julie Y.
Mound, MN
Julie
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2007-05-29 00:47
Yes, Nimrod is a favorite as is the Shropshire Lad by Butterworth (lovely clarinet opening and I never fail to think of the composer being killed in WWI and a possible major English composer's life ended too quickly). The Lark Ascending is an extremely moving composition as well. The Brahms Requiem has several very wonderful sections.
HRL
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2007-05-29 04:15
I played in an awards show last night for a local program called CAPPIES (look it up if you're interested - think Tony Awards for high school). It's a big deal at the Kennedy Center that sells out the concert hall every year (2400 seats filled with screaming high schoolers and parents - very high energy and a lot of fun). When the Virginia Tech thing happened six northern Virginians (former recent high schoolers) were killed - two of which were intimately related to CAPPPIES: one was a former Cappie dancer and one I played with last year in the show's orchestra - she was a clarinetist.
To send a tribute to them we played a medley from Fiddler on the Roof which included two singers who were friends of one girl and a dancer who imitated dancing with someone (very moving) and a clarinet solo which I played. It was the clarinet solo from Sunrise, Sunset. I don't think I'll ever be able to play that short, slow, easy solo again.
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-05-29 11:32
I havent cried while playing but I've made a few other people cry. I performed the Adagio from the Mozart Concerto at my great-grand-mothers funeral. My entire extended family had requested it, there wasnt a dry eye in the house. My previous clarinet teacher cried during my performance of Debussy's - Premiere Rhapsody from memory at a solo recital last year. For me though the opening of the Copland clarinet concerto really does it. 2E
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2007-05-30 13:45
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 In A, KV 488: Adagio (second movement) was used as theme music for BBC's dramatization of the "Charterhouse of Parma" years ago.
Mozart Piano Concerto #21 In C, KV 467: Andante ("Elvira Madigan")
Slow movement of Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto.
Prokofiev Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor Op.131 - Andante espressivo. Third movement -- heartbreakingly simple and beautiful!
Sorry for this tear-stained posting -- better than my usual coffee stains!
Larry
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Author: robertgh
Date: 2007-05-31 20:43
Mozart: the concerto's Adagio, of course
Brahms: Sonata #2, 2nd mvt. particularly that descending phrase around measures 49-50
Bruckner: Motet "Os justi" (Beats me why a guy who could write so sublimely for voice seems to think the clarinet's just another rhythm instrument in his symphonies!)
Mahler: Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde as well as the middle passages of the last movement of his 9th Sym.
Elgar: Opening of the Cello Concerto (one of the many passages in many works by post WWI English composers that echo with the terrible sense of loss haunting that generation)
Finally, Beethoven 9th last movement at the "alla Macia" (measure 331). In the middle of the movement's extended triumphant anthem to peace and brotherhood comes this passage that sounds like a little village band playing a resolute march. It always strikes me as so innocent and hopeful—kind of like a group of little kids marching around a kindergarten classroom. (Really got me going once during a performance at Lincoln Center—thank God I was one voice in a large chorus.)
Bob H.
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-06-01 02:13
Too many to name (well, not cry, but emotional)
...but there are far more pieces that make me cry with frustration :(
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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2007-06-01 11:33
The second movement of Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto has some
really beautiful moments.
D.O.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-01 11:53
Works that get me all choked are:
Bach - St. Matthew's Passion,
Dvorak - 'Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky - 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies
Purcell - Dido and Anaeas
Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
... And how could I forget ...
Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs!
Works of sheer bliss and relaxation:
Delius - 'La Calinda' from Koanga
Beethoven - 3rd mvmt. of 9th Symphony
Rachmaninov - 3rd mvmt of 2nd Symphony
Mahler - slow mvmt. of 6th Symphony (2nd or 3rd - depending on conductor!)
Holst - Venus and Neptune from 'The Planets', Somerset Rhapsody
Debussy - La Mer, L'apres Midi ..., Danse Sacree et Profane
Ravel - Intro and Allegro for Harp,Fl,Cl.Str.4tet.,Tombeau de Couperin
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2007-06-01 20:30)
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Author: Tony Beck
Date: 2007-06-01 20:20
My father-in-law sang with the local symphony chorus and was probably the best non-professional baritone I have ever heard, not to mention an all around great guy. He use to sing Danny Boy to my daughter when she was a baby. It was one of her favorites. She’s 13 now and he died a few years ago.
Last year I played the Eb part in Irish Tune from County Derry, by Granger. The first time we played it, memories of my little girl sitting on his knee listening to Danny Boy came rolling back and I pretty much lost it. I did make it through though, even the altissimo.
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Author: hinotehud ★2017
Date: 2007-06-02 03:09
I get choked up playing Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" from Stoltzman's "Aria" book. I also get emotional when I play either of the Weber Concertos' 2nd movements.
For some reason, I don't get emotional when I play the Mozart Adagio, even though I've played it at friends' funerals and weddings. I just feel extra pressure to play as close to perfect as I'm able, because I owe it to Mozart.
The song "Long, Long Ago" gets me a little choked up because I remember hearing it when I was a lttle kid in the early '50's on a TV show. A little boy heard a knock at the door, when he answered it, there was no one there but this song was playing kind of eerily. I was too young to know what was really going on.
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Author: DareWreck8402
Date: 2007-06-02 06:25
Please, someone agree with my choices!
okay here goes:
2nd mvt. Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
2nd and 3rd mvts. Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Clare de Lune- Debussy
2nd mvt. Schubert symphony no. 8 (unfinished)
Intermezzo- Manon Lescaut by Puccini
and finally!
Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde- Wagner
these are the pieces that make me cry....
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Author: orchestr
Date: 2007-06-02 13:33
Messaien Quartet for the End of Time (although the one that makes me cry is the cello movement!)
Wagner's Sigfried Idyll
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Author: Chauncey
Date: 2007-06-03 06:02
My first choice would definitely have to be the final movement to Mahler's second. To be specific, I start getting very much into it at the "O Schmerz!" duet. It just knocks me into the ground when the orchestra/choir/organ blows the roof off screaming "What you have suffered will bear you to God!". The repetition of "Zu Gott" is what finishes me off and makes me want (but not do, sadly) to cower down and sob.
The oboe solo a minute or so into Brahms' first symphony is something that also comes to mind. It's such a gorgeous, heart-felt line.
After listening to the piece in its entirety, the ending chords with the woodwinds/solo violin in Scheherazade really evoke a beautiful feeling.
I also agree with opinions on the slow movement in the Copland Concerto and the appasionato in Brahms sonata
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Author: Sean.Perrin
Date: 2007-06-03 23:31
Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spigel
I was going to transcribe the piano and violin version for performance on my junior recital this year... but it turns out that Part himself scored it for this instrumentaion (and one for horn) in 2003. I will play it anyway. Incredible piece, get the album Alina... you won't be dissapointed.
....
Founder and host of the Clarineat Podcast: http://www.clarineat.com
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Author: Garret
Date: 2007-06-04 01:38
Pachabel's Canon makes me cry--only because I can't wait for it to end--tears of pain
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Author: marshall
Date: 2007-06-05 13:33
Sean.Perrin wrote:
> Just because it's overplayed doesn't make Canon in D a bad
> piece IMO.
>
No...but the fact that its become the standard for modern music chord progressions does.
Tchaik 5...first and second movements. Also...I dont remember what its called...but the fifth Enigma Variation (that one's more of a nostalgia thing than anything....its actually a very happy variation).
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Author: MichaelR
Date: 2007-06-06 19:50
>> A more interesting question, perhaps, is why certain pieces made you cry (or laugh, or fall down, or ... <<
My wife is sensitive to pieces in minor key. She finds them depressing. I tend to find them soothing, like a misty day.
Last Saturday morning I started to listen to Stravinsky's Three Pieces. Within a few bars she called out "please use your headphones, that makes me want to cry." Other minor key pieces make her "want to slit my wrists." The same music has either no, or a relaxing effect, on me.
I don't understand it. It's a very interesting question.
--
Michael of Portland, OR
Be Appropriate and Follow Your Curiosity
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Author: Mark Horne
Date: 2007-06-06 22:40
The clarinet solo that introduces the daybreak section of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, as orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, gets my vote as one of the most beautiful, albeit short, clarinet solos of all time.
It soars above a bed of sustained chords, and is bookended by ascending harp arpeggios. Set against the wildly demonic character of the the piece up to that point, it creates one of the greatest musical contrasts ever written.
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