Grandiose classical music

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Just listened to Saint Saen's organ Symphony No 3.
Oh, and The St Patrick's Breastplate
What are your favourite pieces of grand classical music that move you to tears and you just have to have on high volume?

Placemarking with Handel’s Jephtha (though perhaps not grand and definitely not grandiose).

Will have a think in the morning!

Mahler 8...

The final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony.

Widor’s Toccata for organ.

This one definitely counts as grandiose:

(Stick with it...)

Mozart's Symphony 25 in G minor; also the overtures from Don Giovanni and Die Entfurung Aus Dem Serail

Zadok the Priest. Especially the quiet, gentle build up and then BAMM, it hits you in the face. So regal (the music, not being hit in the face ). Gives me goosebumps.

Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations.
The Pilgrims' Chorus from Wagner's Tannhauser.
The slow movement of Beethoven's 3rd.
The processional music from Mussorsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

I'll have a think; I'm sure I can come up with lots more.

Arggh, why is that full of adverts in the middle of the piece?!!

Try this one:

Bach: Tocatta and Fugue

Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, I presume, @waltzingparrot.

When I was doing O level music, my class had four of us doing the O level and four doing the CSE. Some of the two curriculums could be taught together, but for some of it, we had to split up. I remember us being sent off to discuss an essay question amongst ourselves, and then write the essay for homework.

The title of the essay was, “The Organ Fugues of Bach are academic and boring. Discuss”. We were a bunch of mischievous teens, so we went away, discussed it carefully, then all wrote essays discussing it and concluding - with plenty of examples - that Yes, they were!

Our music teacher was Not Best Pleased!

Thank you,
Yes, Widors Toccata, I remember but have forgotten the Don Giovanni, ( that bit of the film was amazing)
I will get Mozart"s 25th up. I know the 29th and 35th ( Haffner I think)
The Mad Scene from Lucia we Lamammor is v good too.
Thanks for all your suggestions .

Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony...

SDTG
That's good, the teacher asked for that!
These days of course, it would be perfectly reasonable to interpret music, literary text, or polemics as one personally finds them.
Intelligent anarchists!