What piece of music hits your sweet spot?

[NickJones]

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

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

[Wyvern]

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]

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]

[Anything by a Russian Men's Chorus]

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

[Arkietuba]

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]

-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."

[Bandmaster]

Back when I was in college there were two pieces that made a big impression on me when I first heard them performed live by a good symphonic band.

Russian Christmas Music - Reed
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber - Hindemith

And for Kevin Madden, one of my favorite drum corps performances is from the Phantom Regiment in 1994.

Clare de Lune - Debussy

I tend to prefer music that is more emotional than technical.

[numbnutstubist]

Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Mahler: Symphony Number 1, Last Movement,
Symphony Number 3, Last Movement,
Symphony Number 5, First Movement
Symphony Number 6, Alma's Theme with Szell and Cleveland

Stravinski: Firebird Finale

prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky-- Battle on the Ice April 5'th, 1242

The end of the first movement of the Woodward Tuba Concerto
Third Movement of the Gregson Tuba Concerto

There are probably a dozen more moments that I can think of, but I figure that's enough for now.

Happy listening

[goldtuba]

I could list them all, but I know that you diehard readers would be up all night. I'll keep this somewhat short and sweet;

Symphonie Fantastique
Shostakovich Sym 5,7,10
Nimrod
Beethoven 6 and 7
Tchaikovsky 4-6
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Siegfried's Funeral March
Toccata and Fugue
Little Fugue - Especially the Summit Brass recording
Guadeamus Igitur
Faure's Pavane
Salvation is Created
Adagio for Strings
Hymn for Diana
Sonata Octavi Toni
Gabrieli: Canzon 18
Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez - Mvt. 2
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Planets - pretty much the entire thing
Artunian Trumpet Concerto
bach Flute sonata in Eb
Procession of the Nobles
Fnugg
Any Grainger
Mozart Horn Concerti
Mahler
Anything when listen to John Fletcher
John Williams
Fanfare Liturgiques
Any Beethoven piano music
bach Cello suite #1

Any Johnny Cash
Frank Sinatra
Malaguena
Mingo Fishtrap
Ray Charles
Brooklyn
Bob Marley

I guess that I can stop there for now

[Jason Arnold]

I just have to get in on this one.
These are pieces I just never seem to get tired of.
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
Lincolnshire Posy
Appalachian Spring
Dance Movements
Moonlight Sonata- Horowitz
Prokofiev 5-NY Masur
Elgar Cello Concerto-Du Pre
Commando March
Pictures at an Exhibition
Scherazade- NY Phil Temirkanov
Symphonic Metamorphosis- SF Blomstedt
Short Ride in a Fast Machine- Northwestern Wind Ensemble
Rocky Point Holiday
Passacaglia on BACH
Anything Empire Brass with Sam
I could go on and on, but this is good for now.

[TubaSteve]

A lot of great music on this thread. Some of these have already been mentioned, but some of my favorites are;

Victory at Sea; (Rogers and Robert Russel Bennet), Very moving music. If you can't feel the fear of the U-boat, or the joy of the new dawn, you are not listening.

Elsas Pro from the Cathedral;

Londondairy Air; (Danny Boy) We have an arrangement in our library that is great.

Hands Across the Sea, King Cotton, American Salute; Great marches.

Ald Lang Syne; After this years Christmas Concert we ended it with this. (Actually we do every year) The trombones and I looked at each other, we were totally drained. The perfect example of it doesn't have to be technical to be difficult.

Steve

[Mojo workin']

Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

Most things Wagner.

Rite of Spring

Most things Mahler, esp. 5th Symph. adagietto

Bartok - Mandarin, Concerto for Orch., Music for Strings Percussion celesta

Brahms Ein Deutsche Requiem

Bach Art of Fugue

King Crimson
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ravi Shankar
Jethro Tull
Syd era Pink Floyd
Sex Pistols

[Tubaryan12]

Petula Clark singing Downtown

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

You are not alone

Also anything by Jean-Luc Ponty.

[KiwiTuba]

Nielsen 4 - Fantastic Piece! Wonderful tuba part
Nielsen 5 - Greatest Symphonic statement of the 20th century. And the snare drum is the embodiment of evil!

Brahms 1 - When the chorale theme comes back towards the end of the last movement, I always get goosebumps.
Brahms 2, the last movement is like a Haydn symphony caffeinated. Brahms 4, the whole thing is amazing, and I just love the way he managed to write a minor symphony without any of this per ardua ad astra rubbish. For some reason the Variations on a Theme by Haydn always makes me feel warm and comfortable.

Bruckner 7 and 8 The slow movements are just the most sublime pieces of music ever written.

Mahler 9 (and 1,2, 3,5, 6, 7, 8 ). When the "Liebe wohl"/Abide with Me theme comes back with the horns playing the turn motif over the top of it I just want to melt. The Zander recording is amazing!! I'm pretty sure it holds the record for the longest period of silence after the piece actually finishes (something like 90 seconds)

Mahler 10 and the Bruckner 9. I like them but they also scare me as well, they both always sound like they're coming from somewhere outside of normal human experience (from beyond the grave maybe) the Scherzo of Bruckner 9 is scary. I read somewhere that it's a depiction of human evil. I can believe it.

Still with Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer. and Kindertotenlieder. The last movement where the storm dies down and the lyrics are about the children being safe with god always makes me cry like a baby.

Winterreise. (Schubert) The recording with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore is probably my favourite recording (of anything) of all time. Der Lindenbaum is my favourite song from the cycle.

[Charlie Goodman]

Albeniz - Cavatina
Rodrigo - Concerto Aranjuez
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit this to Memory (the whole album)
Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well
Youngblood Brass Band - Round One
Any Wagner, really
Holst's band suites
Shostakovich 5