What's your favorite "slow" piece?
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Tubajug
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What's your favorite "slow" piece?
I would like to know your favorite "slow" piece/movement/etc. for any group (orchestra, band, quintet, anything!). I love a piece a with nice, slow burn, lush harmonies, and of course, nice brass parts! Anything goes, though. I've discovered I'm not very good at finding new music to experience on my own, so....Whaddya got?
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
so many to choose from. and only one has brass
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
O Magnum Mysterium, Lauridsen.
Choir:
Band:
Choir:
Band:
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
' sorta reflects the mood of "thinking about stuff in mostly emotionless ways"...you know: like men do.
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Thanks for the replies so far. There are some I haven't heard, and some I'd forgotten about. Keep 'em coming!
I appreciate the YouTube links, as well!
I appreciate the YouTube links, as well!
Jordan
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"No one else is placed exactly as we are in our opportune human orbits."
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
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Some old Yorks, Martins, and perhaps a King rotary valved CC
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Do I get to pick a runner-up?
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Man, the Allegretto from Beethoven 7 is one of my favorite movements in all of classical music. Just riveting.
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Second Suite in F, Movement II, by Gustav Holst
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gu ... ove%22.ogg
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
3rd choice (contemporary-ISH/romantic/American opera)
- the (surprising) bridge
- the soft/disturbing last four penultimate chords (while the soloist sustains the tonic) at the end
- the (surprising) bridge
- the soft/disturbing last four penultimate chords (while the soloist sustains the tonic) at the end
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Barber's "Adagio" from his string quartet — PLAYED BY FOUR PLAYERS rather than a herd of them. Listening to this piece can be a sublime experience when played by just four, as he intended it originally. A top-shelf quartet playing this can make you tear up. It can break your heart. It is naked, raw, and intimate when performed as a quartet.
When I hear his later arrangement (as the "Adagio for Strings") all I think of is Willem Dafoe being shot to death in slow motion in the film "Platoon". That setting is also excellent, but as a quartet, it is mo bettah…
When I hear his later arrangement (as the "Adagio for Strings") all I think of is Willem Dafoe being shot to death in slow motion in the film "Platoon". That setting is also excellent, but as a quartet, it is mo bettah…
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
I’ll throw in a curveball for fun…more accessible to us amateurs and a wind band piece too.
When the OP said slow burn, this popped in my head
But I completely agree with Adagio for Strings. That piece is so good even Barber went mad knowing he could never top it.
When the OP said slow burn, this popped in my head
But I completely agree with Adagio for Strings. That piece is so good even Barber went mad knowing he could never top it.
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Last half of IV Movement Jupiter of Holtz’s The Planets. Starts at 2:50.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs
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Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
One of my favorite quintet arrangements- I don't have a video of our arrangement, but here's Diane Bish doing an organ/orchestra version:
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- Tubajug (Fri Aug 23, 2024 9:51 pm)
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1976 Sonora (B&S 101) 4-rotor BBb
1964 Conn 20J/21J BBb (one body, both bells)
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~1904 York 3P BBb Helicon
Old Alex Comp.F, in shop
Re: What's your favorite "slow" piece?
Not strictly slooooow, the original 2nd movement from Mahler 1, “Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan": I. Blumine. Andante.” Mahler withdrew it after 3 performances. It was rediscovered in the 1960’s. Some of the recordings are examples of playing it pretty quickly like they’re trying to get it over with. I was looking for a different one, but this one is a pretty good version.