When Classical Music gives you goosebumps!

My choice of five pieces of classical music that has given me the goosebumps....plus the reasons why!
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MOZART: • Mozart - Sinfonia Conc...
SIBELIUS: • Jean Sibelius: Symphon...
BACH: • Bach: Brandenburg Conc...
BEETHOVEN: • Beethoven String Quart...
PROKOFIEV: • Prokofiev: Symphony No...
Plus Wagner Tannhauser: • Wagner Tannhäuser Over...
and Wagner Gotterdammerung: • Götterdämmerung, final...
And the piano circle of 5ths is Mozart • Mozart Piano Sonata No...

[@piersnightingale]

It’s beyond me why this channel doesn’t have more subscribers. These videos are consistently informative, witty and buoyed by a lightness of touch that keeps everything agreeably accessible and, above all, entertaining. I’d give double likes if I could!

[@Dionysus_333]

I concur, quite brilliant!

[@razvan_3008]

For me, it doesn't get any better and goosebump inducing than the beginning of the recapitulation in the 1st movement of Beethoven’s 9th.

[@miladeskandari7]

Shostakovich's 5th and 7th finale always give me chills

[@raguifarag3688]

& the 1st movement of his 1st violin concerto as well... the 1st movement of the 6th, the ending of the 4th, the fugue in the 1st movement of the 4th, his 2nd cello concerto, the 8th, the solo part in the 1st cello concerto, the 8th string quartet, the 1st movement of the 13th... and as you said the 5th & 7th... OMG all Shostakovich would give us goosebumps

[@brainbulb8546]

Tchaikovsky's 5th and 6th symphony always gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it. He's my favourite composer!!

[@Andrew25Davies]

You’re absolutely right, also his 4th (2nd movement particularly) and even his 1st which he toiled over to perfect it.

[@joespencer471]

Serious goosebumps: The melancholy horn solo & flute callback in the middle of the 4th Movement of Brahms ' 1st Symphony, just before his version of Ode to Joy that builds up in intensity and ends with the intense ending of horn lead orchestra at the end.

[@ShovelssonMusic]

No mahler mentioned is actually surprising. His symphonies has so many moments where climax of a build up sends a goose bumps shockwave

[@HermanVonPetri]

I continually return to the finale to Mahler's 2nd symphony "Resurrection" for that frisson.

[@ShovelssonMusic]

@@HermanVonPetri For me it's his 8th symphony finale.

[@violinscratcher]

Brahms 4th Symphony, second movement: Second theme in the recapitulation gives me goosebumps. And the following syncopated episode additional tears.

[@raguifarag3688]

one of my most favorite Symphonies, but I get the goosebumps near the end of the 1st movement when the 2 main notes are repeated by different instruments like a canon, this continues till the end of the movement

[@SophieLeung-du9we]

Any Mahler symphony gives me goosebumps

[@Js-sc4ng]

finale of mahler 2

[@SophieLeung-du9we]

@@Js-sc4ng yes, I recently did mahler 2

[@azureNotsure]

Clapped out loud the first time that Beethoven came. Love that section😭😭!! It’s like seeing the sun after months of rain

[@azureNotsure]

I rarely get goosebumps, much less tear up. Kinda envious of people who can be so easily affected. Then again, it could be me being too casual and inattentive while listening. Edit: Nevermind, I just got goosebumps, and I’ve fallen in love for the nth time

[@duartevader2709]

Another one that always gets me goosebumps is the rach 3 ossia cadenza played by bronfman, love it (same thing with rach 2 and kissin)

[@andyxyz01]

The circle of fifths in NOT happy. It’s bittersweet, agonizingly pleasurable and achingly beautiful

[@Ziad3195]

Something about your videos are super satisfying to watch and make me cheerful!

[@JRCSalter]

Before you mentioned you are going to make another video of vocal works, I was going to say that Puccini always does it for me with his long sweeping climactic high notes, such as the end of Nessun Dorma. He does it all the damn time, but dear god does it stir up the emotions.

[@fiddeou]

Some of my goosebump moments are: The tutti part in Bernstein's mambo, right after the trumpet solo The ending of Lili Boulangers D'un Matin de printemps The build up in mark O from Ravel's string quartet mvt 4 The entirety of Boulanger's Renouveau The cellos part (you know which one) in La Mer Many Parts of Villalobos' Choros 10, Including the beginning and the entrance of the choir And many others

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

Fantastic well put together, my personal lustbuster thrill!! is 2nd movement (Larghetto) of Beethoven 2nd symphony got to be conducted by Bernstein and the Weiner Philharmoniker!!

[@alv2617]

Yay another viddd!

[@katrinat.3032]

Vocal works that give me goosebumps: Missa Solemnis the Gloria. Hansel’s Dixit dominous (spell?), some by the Monteverdi choir, conducted by Sir Elliott Gardiner.

[@violinscratcher]

Yes! Verdi‘s Requiem! Already the beginning!

[@curberybible3823]

That A minor movement from Beethoven violin Sonata, No. 15, The Emerson String Quartet, the first time I heard it, I was caught away to another realm, a drowsy peace, an enchantment, asleep on a warm glass-smooth ocean. It was as if someone placed the sun inside my arctic heart. Thirty years on, and not a wit hardened to this sweet potion. Dream me fill.

[@rabidbuddha4328]

I wasn’t sure you could come up with any of my goosebumps but you hit one on Sibelius. I might also choose Grieg’s piano concerto or some Rachmaninov moment.

[@thomaskember4628]

For me the work that produces the most emotional effect is the chorus of the Hebrew slaves from the opera Nabucco by Verdi. I first heard it during Covert Lockdown when I was in chronic pain. Listening to this wonderful music had the physical effect of reducing he pain if only for a few minutes.. I now listen to it every at least once every day. I never get tried of it. It has become my only way of getting some relief which none of the painkillers I have tried can do.

[@mauryq2150]

The beginning of Wagner's Liebestod with bass clarinet and tremolo in strings makes excellent possibility of getting goosebumps

[@ianng9915]

I think the orchestral Liebestod is magical in its own way as it reveals so much detail in orchestration, while giving the conductor all the encourage to bring it all out without the presence of the singer

[@katrinat.3032]

The closing notes of the flute in The Hebrides overture by mendohlson

[@Twentythousandlps]

The last minute of Part One of Le Sacre du Printemps - WOW!

[@olliemartinelli4034]

Literally any Rachmaninoff piece

Va, Pensiero Brigde Over Troubled water Nessum Dorma AC/DC - Thunderstruck Solveig's Song Queen - Scandal Also Sprach Zarathustra Metallica - One The Overlords - Sundown Shakespears Sister - Stay Céline Dion - All By Myself etc

[@myouatt5987]

Thoroughly enjoyed that vid, thanks for sharing ... you've already named some of favourites (Sibelius, Wagner). It inevitably gets one thinking about one's own, as some have already shared below - thanks again all! :) :) For me, it's all nearly always about last movements - the culmination/final argument, so to speak - so here goes: Mahler Symphony 2, 8 or 9 (last movement Vaughan Williams Symphony 3 (2nd Movt.) or last movement 9 Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra 5th Movt Nielssen - Symphony 4 Berg Violin Concerto There's loads of great music out there and I genuinely don't think anybody's choice is any better than anyone else's! It's all great!

[@ASclassical]

Mahler 9, 4th mov near the end, when the horns come in…

[@andrewrichesson8627]

Two wagner references and he didn't make the list... The gotterdamerung finale clip you played just gave me goosebumps.

[@siropasrangphet8195]

Thank you Thank you and Thank you

[@hxc5607]

If you were to make another episode of this, one criterion i would go for is definitely the reappearance of previously stated themes. Be it identical (schubert op 100's 4th mvt comes to mind) or reworked to be more epic (rach's piano concerto 2 n 3 endings, tchaikvosky symphony 6 mvt 1), it gives chills to me for sure

[@Mezzotenor]

You missed one that a lot of pop music composers would love to have written: The second movement of Ravel's Concerto in G for piano begins with a sedate piano solo that settles on a dominant chord with trill, only for the gentlest of orchestral entrances to create a modulation. Really, the whole movement is goosebump city. I suspect that the only reason this middle movement isn't better known is that the outer movements are more flippant and jazz-colored, leading some to deem the whole work as watered-down Gershwin. That's a shame.

[@wiktorociepa4777]

Wagner Prelude to Tristan & Isolde Rachmaninoff Symphony no 2 mvt IV Scriabin Poeme de l'extase Ravel Gaspard de la nuit

[@BillDeef]

If so many commentators are right in their discussion of any music to come out of the Soviet Union, Stalin was only second to Napoleon in the salubrious effect he had on classical music (Prokofiev and Shostakovich wouldn't have existed without him, or would they just have been Bruckner and Mahler?)

[@nickdohler3913]

6:04 name pls?

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Mozart piano Sonata No 12...I've added a time-stamped link to the description

[@DonnaGisellaTranchel]

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