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I would like to know your favorite "slow" piece/movement/etc. for any group (orchestra, band, quintet, anything!). I love a piece a with nice, slow burn, lush harmonies, and of course, nice brass parts! Anything goes, though. I've discovered I'm not very good at finding new music to experience on my own, so....Whaddya got?

so many to choose from. and only one has brass

O Magnum Mysterium, Lauridsen.

Choir:



Band:

' sorta reflects the mood of "thinking about stuff in mostly emotionless ways"...you know: like men do.

Thanks for the replies so far. There are some I haven't heard, and some I'd forgotten about. Keep 'em coming!

I appreciate the YouTube links, as well!

arpthark wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:55 am O Magnum Mysterium, Lauridsen.

Choir:



Band:

Brass:

Do I get to pick a runner-up?

Man, the Allegretto from Beethoven 7 is one of my favorite movements in all of classical music. Just riveting.

Second Suite in F, Movement II, by Gustav Holst

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gu ... ove%22.ogg

3rd choice (contemporary-ISH/romantic/American opera)
- the (surprising) bridge
- the soft/disturbing last four penultimate chords (while the soloist sustains the tonic) at the end

Barber's "Adagio" from his string quartet — PLAYED BY FOUR PLAYERS rather than a herd of them. Listening to this piece can be a sublime experience when played by just four, as he intended it originally. A top-shelf quartet playing this can make you tear up. It can break your heart. It is naked, raw, and intimate when performed as a quartet.

When I hear his later arrangement (as the "Adagio for Strings") all I think of is Willem Dafoe being shot to death in slow motion in the film "Platoon". That setting is also excellent, but as a quartet, it is mo bettah…

I’ll throw in a curveball for fun…more accessible to us amateurs and a wind band piece too.
When the OP said slow burn, this popped in my head



But I completely agree with Adagio for Strings. That piece is so good even Barber went mad knowing he could never top it.

Last half of IV Movement Jupiter of Holtz’s The Planets. Starts at 2:50.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs

One of my favorite quintet arrangements- I don't have a video of our arrangement, but here's Diane Bish doing an organ/orchestra version:

Not strictly slooooow, the original 2nd movement from Mahler 1, “Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan": I. Blumine. Andante.” Mahler withdrew it after 3 performances. It was rediscovered in the 1960’s. Some of the recordings are examples of playing it pretty quickly like they’re trying to get it over with. I was looking for a different one, but this one is a pretty good version.