Looking for pieces that evoke

[Bacfokievrahms]

Hay guyz, I am looking for pieces tat evoke, but specifically:

1. Looking for pieces that evoke a sense of a lazy day spent out in the sun, kind of a warm comforting peaceful feeling. Schubert's Op. 90 no. 3 impromptu is somewhere around that area for me.

2. Looking for pieces that have a dramatic buildup and cilmax like the sections of Rach Preludes 23/7 and 23/4.

3. Looking for pieces that evoke a sense of courage and adventure.

[musicsdarkangel]

Rach sonata no 2 in b flat minor has all of the above in one....if that counts.

[apion]

Hay guyz, I am looking for pieces tat evoke, but specifically:

1. Looking for pieces that evoke a sense of a lazy day spent out in the sun, kind of a warm comforting peaceful feeling. Schubert's Op. 90 no. 3 impromptu is somewhere around that area for me.

Mozart, Piano Quintet for Winds
Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 15

[pianonut]

dear bacfokiev,

that's a cool question, to ask about evoking feelings.

for #1 i would say gabriel faure's 4th nocturne.  it reminds me of someone having swing on a hammock, reading a good book, and eating chocolate.  the middle section would be the wind kicking up, twirling you around, flipping everything upside down and then calming again.

for #2 i like your choices.

#3 - i prefer to experience courage and adventure first hand, actively seeking out borderline to my ability things like rock climbing, bicycling behind cyclists sporting 'u.s. postal shirts,' and reading about people who get caught in the elements or bad situations and have to think their way out of them.  i love reading about sherpas, low oxygen environments where people have to conserve their breath, and people who get limbs frozen off (all for the sake of adventure).

[dorfmouse]

3. Looking for pieces that evoke a sense of courage and adventure.

I've started to learn Bach's prelude no. 2 in Cmin from WTC and your question started me imagining doing a first time bungee jump!

Bars 1-18, approaching the jump, psyching up, gritting teeth, determination, keep cool, steady the heartbeat ...
Bars 19-27 ... enormous buildup of tension, what have I let myself in for?? ...dominant pedal...  sense of inevitability, no backing back out now ...
bar 27 and 28, rit, resonant G in the bass, semiquaver pause, poised on edge of precipice, look up to the sky ...
Presto AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH !!!!!!!!!
Adagio ... time feels suspended,senses alive to every tiny detail of the world ...
Allegro - Exultation!

 

[dorfmouse]

I feel a sudden urge to apologise to Johann Sebastien; trivialising his wonderful music is not intended!