Your Most Unforgettable Concert

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Bernard Haitink conducting the LPO, Beethoven PC No.4; Shostakovich: Symphony no.4. With Alfred Brendel playing in the Beethoven, no less!! At the RFH!! 1970s sometime, I think?

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Orchestrally, its Monteux in those early sixties seasons with the LSO. Ferret is absolutely right Daphnis/Monteux/LSO - the Decca recording does them justice.
Piano recitals, John Lill playing the Waldstein at a Wigmore Hall lunchtime recital about 12 years ago.
Songs, Lucia Popp, Schumann/Mahler also at the Wigmore Hall around the same time.
James Ehnes's playing of the opening of the Elgar vln conc at Bury St Edmunds festival 5 or 6 years ago.
Yuri Paterson-Olenich playing the Alla Marcia Rachmaninov study at a friend's house - blimey, I didn't know boudoir grands could generate that much power!!
Nige doing unaccompanied Bach at the Proms two years ago.
The Transformation Music Parsifal Act 1 at Bayreuth 1978 cond. Horst Stein.
The percussionist smacking the stick through the bass drum skin during the Verdi Requiem Dies Irae: Kensington sym orch c 1960 at the Central Hall
Butterfly at ROH three years ago with Pappano.

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The shortlist would include:
- my first ever orchestral concert: all Tchaikovsky evening
- Pappano's Proms Die Walkure
- VPO/Bernstein RAH 1971
- Elgar's Apostles, Halle/Elder
- Strauss Alpine Symphony Halle & BBC PO/Mena 2014

You can't have one that's more unforgettable; if it's unforgettable, it's unforgettable. So I'll just choose the best of them:

Elgar's Apostles, Halle/Elder

And I'll say 'AMEN' to that.
The Manchester performance of 'The Apostles' was quite the most wonderful concert that I ave ever attended.
When the section on the Ascension began, the fine musical performance became a spiritual experience as well.