5 Pieces

[Tapiola]

5 Pieces that blew you away the first time you heard them. No explanations necessary

Shostakovich 14
Beethoven 5
Macmillan - Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Josquin - Missa Pange Lingua
Adam de la Halle - Je muir amourettes

[teamsaint]

Shostakovich 5
Schumann. Spring Symphony.
Beethoven Pastoral Sonata
Bruckner 8
Grieg SQ. (currently).

[umslopogaas]

1. Schubert, 'Symphony no. 9, finale
2. Messiaen, ' Turangalila' symphony 'Joie du sang des etoiles' (or something like that in French)
3. Monteverdi, ' Vespers 1610' 'Deus in adutorium meum'
4. Janaceck, 'Glagolitic Mass'
5. Stravinsky, pretty much anything, but if I must choose, 'Symphony of Psalms' ... those thumping chords ... magic

And of course, Shostakovich, but others got in there first.

[Petrushka]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5
Elgar: Symphony No 1
Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Mahler: Symphony No 2

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Mozart: Symphony no. 40
Elgar: The Kingdom
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Fauré: Requiem

What? Only 5?

[salymap]

Holst Planets [complete!]
RVW symphony 6
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Elgar symphony 2
Britten Young Person's Guide


All live performances which 'blew me away', can't remember dates but a long time ago.

[Dave2002]

Shostakovich: Symphony 4 (Gergiev, Proms)
Verdi: Aida (ROH circa 1970)
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata 6 (Peter Donohoe, early 1980s)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (Mackerras, Proms circa 1975)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (Pritchard, RLPO - a long time ago)
Berg: Wozzeck (ROH, circa 2006)

All the above in live performances.

With increasing age my counting isn't so good as it was!

[scottycelt]

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Suite
Borodin Symphony 2 (whatever happened to that?)
Bruckner 7
Tchaikovsky 4
Messiaen Turangalila

Substitute's Bench: Shostakovich 5

[Pabmusic]

Holst: Suite in E-flat
Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow
Suk: Fantastic Scherzo
Sibelius: En Saga
Finzi: Dies Natalis

These are pieces that awoke my sensibilities with a real jolt when I first heard them (1960s I think).

[antongould]

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Prokofiev Violin Concerto 2
Beethoven String Quartet 131
Bruckner 7
Ireland Piano Concerto

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Three pieces I first heard live in concerts:
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Winchester Cathedral, BSO/ Hickox)
Prokofiev - Death of Tybalt from Romeo & Juliet (Bournemouth Winter Gardens, BSO/ Ted Heath - no, really!)
Prokofiev - opening to the Scythian Suite (QEH, LPOYO/ Jurowski)

One via Radio 3:
Shostakovich 10 (Proms 1986, LPO/ Haitink)

One via LP:
Mozart - Der Hölle Rache from Die Zauberflöte (Roberta Peters just blew me away - I had no idea the human voice could do that - it started my whole operatic 'journey')

[Pianorak]

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D959
Scriabin: Piano Sonatas
Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas
Ravel: La Valse (piano solo)
Albeniz: Iberia

[vinteuil]

Bach : Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50
Haydn : Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob XVI 32
Rameau : Castor et Pollux
Mozart : String Quartet in D minor, K 421
Pelham Humfrey : By the Waters of Babylon

[Roehre]

Beethoven: Leonore III
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Webern: Symphony
Ives: Symphony 4
Keuris: Sinfonia

[aeolium]

Bach: St John Passion
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Haydn: String Quartet op 64 no 5 "Lark"
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 24 in C minor
Beethoven: Violin Concerto