piece that resonates deeply with your soul...

[swagmaster420x]

this is probably my favorite piece of all time:

it makes me close my eyes and tingles the very core of my being.... srsly tho it's so good

[j_menz]

Try this version, which I find better, and which also includes the Chaconne:

It is a great piece!

[swagmaster420x]

yea, that version is good. usually i can only listen to piano music that has sheets so i can look at the music to stop myself from getting bored, but this piece is just so good; it's the only song with a slow part that i don't have to force myself to become immersed in. it's much more beautiful than nocturnes, or at least for me its beauty is much more accessible than that of nocturnes

(which are f u c   i ng boring as hell 4 me unless i feel like being really patient and spending a lot of effort searching for the melody that *gracefully emerges like a bootiful swan* thruout the song, but it s not worth)

on the version you showed me though, the guy's technique seems a bit lacking at some parts (which is ofc understandable) where he makes pretty noticeable mistakes, slips in rhythm, notes quality, etc and it takes away some of the effect for me:(

[prestoconfuocco]

Brahms's requiem. I can't do anything else while listening, I just have to sit still and shiver all over.
Also, I know it's a bit cheesy to pick this one - but Rach 2.
And finally, because this is a piano forum - Chopin's 2nd ballade.
I guess those are the top three from about 95369 other pieces.

[chicoscalco]

Any of Beethoven's last sonatas...
Bach toccata from the 6th partita
Ravel's Le Gibet.

These are the top ones I guess...

[ale_ius]

This! Oh my dear sweet ear floss. This! This!! Total multiple
eargasms...

Really should click into video and read the commentary and description and stay for the other two movements...

Sadly not heard or performed or even discussed nearly enough.  All the best. Of British neo romanticism  (in late German style perhaps ) and conservative modernism (York Bowen anyone?), an aesthetic after Debussy's own heart, a formidable pianist and influences of my favorite guy Scriabin (espcially in tese big sonatas)!?! Sign me up.  For seconds also"

-Alee Marie.

[nanabush]

Movement 3 of Rach 2.

Scriabin Sonata 2, first movement (the ending...sublime... shivers...want to listen to it all day kind of thing).

[kakeithewolf]

A few such pieces come to mind: Liszt's Totentanz, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, The St. Matthew's Passion, and Havergal Brian's "The Gothic" symphony.

The reason I like the Totentanz is because the Dies Irae, as a chant and as a subject, deeply resonates with me on an emotional and spiritual level. I have the unusual belief that I state as "Dies Irae est Dies Felix", or "The Day of Wrath is the Day of Happiness". As such, I love all versions of the Dies Irae, but none were captured on piano like the Totentanz captured the subject.

The Four Seasons were always a favourite of mine. Even though it is 42 minutes long as a whole, I find every second of it perfectly written, conveying emotion in the purest and strongest ways that it could. Even in my least favourite season, Summer (though this is only least because I like the others more; I love all the seasons greatly), I'm enraptured by the perfection in how Vivaldi wrote every measure.

The St. Matthew's Passion, at moments, isn't so much about what is being played, but what is said and sung, and the emotion with which a grand story is told: The Passion of Jesus Christ through the eyes of Matthew the Disciple. The instrumentation is not to be ignored, because he adds further to the emotions the Passion conveys as it rolls through a rainbow of emotion, from the deepest and darkest sadness, to the greatest of angers of the evil, to the expression of the fury of the Earth's violent reaction to the death of Christ, to celebratory felicity at the arrival of salvation at the hand of the slain Lamb of God after centuries of longsuffering for God's children, Gentile and Jew alike.

Then, you have Havergal Brian's "The Gothic" symphony. No piece has been made on a more colossal scale, in instrumentation; no symphony of such length. Requiring over 200 instruments, from the standard orchestra (albeit on a much larger scale) to the unusual instruments such as a bird scarer, glockenspiel and xylophone, long drum, chimes and iron chains, triangles, oboe d'amore, the mere orchestra make for a colossal creation. Then you add a choir of 700 and a children's choir of 100 to that. All of that makes for the grandest and most ambitious symphony ever, a symphony describing the Gothic era in all its splendor. For some reason, the grand scale combined with the subject and how the point is delivered resonates with me.

[redbaron]

Rachmaninov's Etude-Tableau in D minor, Op 33. Also the first movement of Vaughan Williams' Piano Quintet, beautiful, haunting melodies and that earthy yet otherworldly air which characterize him at his best.

[awesom_o]

Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony!