What piece of music hits your sweet spot?

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:58 pm

Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending
Wagner: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (BrÃ¼nnhilde's last scene from GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung)
Grieg: VÃ¥ren
Bach: Ruht wohl (from Johannespassion)
Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo (from Vespers)
Schubert: Litanei auf der Fest Allerseelen

... to name but a few.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:17 pm

Alice Parker: Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal
Orlando Gibbons: O' Clap Your Hands
Petula Clark singing Downtown

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:18 pm

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". Brings tears to my eyes every time.

The piece inspired me to write this...
http://dylanking.net/Adagio_for_Strings.mp3

Not to say it in any way measures up to Barber, but I don't think I would have written my short "Adagio for Stings" without ever hearing his.

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:20 pm

SplatterTone wrote:Petula Clark singing Downtown

I thought I was the only one who liked that tune.

A couple of others:

Maynard's MacArthur Park

Rush's Tom Sawyer

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:29 pm

the elephant wrote:Tchaik 4, slow movement

Heavenly . . .

Yes! There's no tuba in this movement; but sitting in the orchestra when the low strings start playing in the second movement is heavenly.

UTTuba_09 · Post by **UTTuba_09** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:16 am

Dvorak's 9th
Second Mvmts of the Wilhelm Concertino and VW Concerto

GC · Post by GC » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:29 am

knuxie wrote:I'll second Adagio for Strings...did Barber write anything else?

Barber wrote a LOT else. It's hard to beat the Overture to The School For Scandal, Essay for Orchestra #1 and #2, Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, and the Piano Concerto. Also, Adagio for Strings was originally just a movement from an excellent string quartet.

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:11 am

http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/sep2002 ... 06606.html

MileMarkerZero · Post by **MileMarkerZero** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:03 am

I'm going to commit an act of tuba heresy here.

To me, the most incredibly beautiful piece of music is Barber's Adagio. I can listen to it at any time and it will always lift me up.

*EDIT* Obviously, I posted without reading the other Barber nominations...

Tubaguyry · Post by **Tubaguyry** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:11 am

2nd movement of the Vaughan Williams tuba concerto. If any person who claims to be alive can listen to that without having tears come to their eyes, they need to check their pulse.

1st movement of Poulenc's flute sonata.

The "Gandalf" movement of "The Lord of the Rings" by de Meij

"Deeper Than Crying" by Alison Krauss

"Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" and "Sound Off" by Sousa

1st movement of "Symphony in Bb" by Hindemith

"Fantasia in D," K. 397 by Mozart

"Requiem," KV 626 by Mozart

Dvorak's Slavonic Dance #8, op. 46

2nd movement from Holst's "Second Suite in F"

"Lincolnshire Posy" by Grainger

"The Impossible Dream" by Mitchell Leigh from "Man of La Mancha"

1st movement of the Ewald brass quintet #1

2nd movement from the Koetsier brass quintet

"Adagio und Allegro," Op.70 by Schumann

Ok...this list could go ono for a while, so I'll just cut it off there for now.

UTTuba_09 · Post by **UTTuba_09** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:30 pm

I'll add Strauss' Four Last Songs as well, no great tuba part, but absolutely beautiful music

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:19 pm

Hymn of Victory-Victory at Sea, Richard Rogers

Film:
Dances with Wolves, John Barry
Chariots of File, Vangelis

Polovotsian Dances, Prince Igor-Borodin

Bolero-Ravel
Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D

Roger Lewis · Post by **Roger Lewis** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:08 pm

Mitropoulis recording with the New York Phil - Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
Ralph Vaughn Williams - Variations on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Chorale from the 4th movement of Mahler II
The second movement of Mahler V
Barber Aagio for Strings (yet another vote)
Anything played by the late Jaquelin DuPres (sp?)-even scales!
Our quintet's version of Savlation is Created
Anything by a Russian Men's Chorus
Brahm's First and Second Symphnony
Smetana - Die Moldau the soft trombone and tuba choral towards the end
Frst movement of John Adams Harmonielehre - the cadence right before the tubas and bass trombone go nuts.
More later
Roger

GC · Post by GC » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:25 am

march addendum to my previous contemptible suggestions:

Hands Across the Sea and Fairest of the Fair, by Sousa. His Honor and Rolling Thunder, by Fillmore. Coat of Arms, by Kinney. "Marche" from Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Von Weber, by Hindemith

NickJones · Post by **NickJones** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:30 am

Variations on a theme of Thomas Tallis - RVW
Mahler 1
Requiem - Verdi

Of Men and Mountains - Edward Gregson
Whitsun Wakes - Michael Ball

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:53 pm

Virtually anything by Mahler, or Bruckner does something for me. Mahler 2 & 6 and Bruckner 8 are my very favourites.

I also love the music of Wagner, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and more - mostly late romantic or earlier 20th century works. A little known piece which never fails to move me is Rutland Boughton Symphony No.3. If I am feeling a bit low, listening to it will invariably raise my spirits.

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:43 pm

tubaphore wrote:
The last four minutes of Maslanka's Symphony #4 also = wow

I'm with you on that. Wow is right. Unless your trombone section sucks and sound slike a bunch of slide euphoniums. That can ruin the power that piece has very quickly. The Dallas Wind SYmphony recording of it that just came out is phenomenal.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:17 pm

[Anything by a Russian Men's Chorus]

I'm sure you're familliar with Rachmaninov's "Vespers"...

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:04 pm

OH, I completely forgot my favorite piece of all time:

Tchaikovsky's "Marche Slav"

and also the piece we're playing in orchestra right now:

Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration"

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:13 pm

-Anything by Morton Feldman, but especially "Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety."

-All of the music from the soundtrack to "2001: A Space Odyssey", (that is, the soundtrack compiled by Kubrick, not the score written by Alex North.)

-"An Idyll for the Misbegotten" by George Crumb

-the intro to David Holsinger's "Liturgical Dances"

-"Kaddish" by W. Francis McBeth

-good performances of Penderecki's Cappricio

-"St. Luke's Passion" by Penderecki

-the version of Perdido done by the Instant Composer's Pool

-"Three Places in New England" by Charles Ives

-Five Movements for Orchestra by Anton Webern

-anything by Olivier Messiaen, but especially the "Turangalila-Symphonie" and "Des Canyons Aux Etoiles."

-Most of Kronos Quartet's album "Early Music," especially the Moondog and Partch pieces.

-some of Harry Partch's stuff, including "Delusion of the Fury."

-the band called the Locust

-Tom Waits.

-Balinese Gamelan music

-Bill Laswell's remix of Miles Davis's electronic period, "Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis."

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