Your Favourite Slow Movement

[Beef Oven!]

In the beginning, for me, it was the slow movement from Beethoven's 7th.

Then I discovered Bruckner's 8th and that adagio!

These days I'm taken by lots of different adagios.

Currently my fave is from the Béla Bartók piano concerto #2. Ok, there's a bit of presto thrown in, but .........

Your favourite?

Elgar?
LvB?
Schumann?

[jayne lee wilson]

HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 6, 26, 44, 49, 58
BRUCKNER 2 & 4
BEETHOVEN 2
MAGNARD 2
NIELSEN 3
MARTINU 2 & 4
ROUSSEL 1 & 3
GERHARD Symphony 1, Violin Concerto
TIPPETT 2
HINDEMITH Pittsburgh Symphony, Symphonic Dances, Harmonie der Welt
SKALKOTTAS Concerto for 2 Violins
PETRASSI Piano Concerto
GHEDINI Concerto for 2 Cellos & Orchestra "L'Olmenata"

So many 2nd Symphonies! How curious...
I do love a good slow movement.... haunting, yearning, tragic...remote, serene, songful.... It's what life is for....

[LMcD]

Couldn't agree more about the Nielsen 3rd. I recently watched a performance on Youtube, was very impressed with the lady singer and 'googled' her, only to learn that she'd died tragically young of brain cancer.
I have all 6 Nielsen symphonies recorded by the San Francisco Symphony with Herbert Blomstedt.

[Joseph K]

Mahler 5 & 9 (last movement of the latter). Faust Symphony, Liszt. I'm also fond of Oliver Knussen's setting of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Edge' in his second symphony.

[BBMmk2]

Yes JLW!!!

Mahler 5 & 0(yes JK!)
Bax Spring Firer
Elgar S2
Rach S2

[antongould]

Beethoven PC1

[Lat-Literal]

Not a question I am going to answer directly because my first choice is an answer to everything.

Therefore it's going to be completely random.

Is moderato cantando allowed?

The first 5.15 of Grace Williams's Penillion is outstandingly good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIU2vT0tJ5Y

[Petrushka]

The first one to come into my head was the slow movement of the Bruckner 8, one I first heard in the 1944 Furtwangler/VPO recording and music I've associated ever since, Metamorphosen like, with the cultural and human devastation of the Second World War.

Elgar 1, Schumann 2 and Beethoven 9 are others that immediately come to mind but Bruckner did slow movements best didn't he?

[LMcD]

Yes JLW!!!

Mahler 5 & 0(yes JK!)
Bax Spring Firer
Elgar S2
Rach S2

I don't know Mahler's '0', but I used to have an LP of Bruckner's '0' which I greatly enjoyed (Concertgebouw/Haitink. if memory serves)

[Bryn]

I don't know Mahler's '0', but I used to have an LP of Bruckner's '0' which I greatly enjoyed (Concertgebouw/Haitink. if memory serves)

I suppose one might just refer to as Symphony No. 0 the true "Titan" (i.e.the five movement work which Mahler used as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 (no subtitle) by dropping "Blumine" and adjusting the orchestration of the remaining four movements.

[LMcD]

I suppose one might just refer to as Symphony No. 0 the true "Titan" (i.e.the five movement work which Mahler used as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 (no subtitle) by dropping "Blumine" and adjusting the orchestration of the remaining four movements.

Silly me!

[Serial_Apologist]

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7.

[alycidon]

Brahms: 1st Piano Concerto
Mozart: Haffner Symphony
Bach: Double Violin Concerto

[Bryn]

Cage: Organ²/ASLSP

[cloughie]

Loads of lovely larghettos, adagios and stuff but the final movement of Mahler 3 must be one of the most wonderful slow movements ever.