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Rondo · #16 (**permalink**) Oct-27-2007, 18:03

Beethoven's 4th, 2nd Mvt...sublime!

ChamberNut · #17 (**permalink**) Oct-27-2007, 18:19

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Originally Posted by Guarnerius

Dear ChamberNut,

I throw myself on my knees before You Senior Member! *doing worshipping gestures*. Can You ever accept my deepest apologies ;o).
Must confess, I read all too quickly that list and erroneously saw there was mentioned Symphony No. 4 (while it was the 4th mvmnt). Sorry for that. So tomorrow I'll have to contact my optician to give me a new pair of looking glasses

You are forgiven

And forgive me for not mentioning Grieg's Piano Concerto 2nd mvt. Fantastic horn passage before the entrance of the piano.

terotero · #18 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 02:23

Add Mozart's Bassoon Concerto 2nd movement, piano concerto no 23 2nd movement

Rondo · #19 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 02:34

I take that back, on second thought I would have to mention the second movement of Nielsen's third. The solo voices in that are out of this world!!!

I don't know what made me forget that one, I shouldn't act on impulse!

Handel · #20 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 03:23

I might add Haydn's 2nd movement from his string quartet op. 20 no 2.

opus67 · #21 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 08:42

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Originally Posted by Handel

I might add Haydn's 2nd movement from his string quartet op. 20 no 2.

I would add a couple of other slow movements from his other quartets, if only terotero had allowed to us to list chamber works.

opus67 · #22 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 08:44

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Originally Posted by terotero

piano concerto no 23 2nd movement

The second movement to PC 20 is one of the most beautiful movements he has written, IMHO. While technically it's part of an orchestral work, the piano reigns supreme mostly.

Kurkikohtaus · #23 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 10:53

If you like pain, suffering and the possible feeling of exaltedness that these may bring...

Sibelius 4th, mvmt III.

Lisztfreak · #24 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 12:29

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Originally Posted by ChamberNut

And forgive me for not mentioning Grieg's Piano Concerto 2nd mvt. Fantastic horn passage before the entrance of the piano.

Horn? Isn't that trumpet?

Lisztfreak · #25 (**permalink**) Oct-28-2007, 12:36

Here's what I can remember off the top of my head:

Bruckner: 5th, 7th, 8th and 9th symphonies.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.4
Liszt: Purgatorio from Dante Symphony
Sibelius: 4th symphony (just as Kurki says!)
Elgar: 1st symphony, 3rd mvt.
Beethoven: 7th and 9th symphony
Shostakovich: 11th symphony, 3rd mvt. In memoriam
Honegger: 3rd symphony 'Liturgique', 2nd mvt. De profundis clamavi
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

terotero · #26 (**permalink**) Oct-29-2007, 00:45

Beethoven 7th! Where is the slow movement...I think it is an "Andante" and should be played as such......interpreters usually use too slow tempos for it making it falsely an Adagio.

ChamberNut · #27 (**permalink**) Oct-29-2007, 00:48

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Originally Posted by terotero

Beethoven 7th! Where is the slow movement...I think it is an "Andante" and should be played as such......interpreters usually use too slow tempos for it making it falsely an Adagio.

It's neither. It is marked Allegretto.

terotero · #28 (**permalink**) Oct-29-2007, 00:48

Opus67, do you mean Mozart's piano concerto No 21 or 20?

terotero · #29 (**permalink**) Oct-29-2007, 00:50

Yes ChamberNut
People tend to forget that. Have you listened to it in a fast tempo (other than Norrington's)?

ChamberNut · #30 (**permalink**) Oct-29-2007, 00:56

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Originally Posted by terotero

Yes ChamberNut
People tend to forget that. Have you listened to it in a fast tempo (other than Norrington's)?

No, I've never heard a fast tempo version. Only moderate or way too slow.