Before @cjd replies, here are a few suggestions.


Each of these works is great in its entirety, but I am giving you times of fragments whose mood is sort of similar (IMO) to Barber's Adagio.

22:50 - 39:10
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InxT4S6wQf4"]Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' - BBC Proms 2012 (Daniel Barenboim) - YouTube[/ame]






45:20 - 53:50 (crank up the volume)
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvXhyldUko"]Mahler - Symphony No.5 - Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2004 - YouTube[/ame]






21:19 - 27:28
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6hWEeTneA"]Brahms - Symphony n°3 - Philharmonia / Klemperer - YouTube[/ame]

All-time?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dwng8EpUH0"]Underoath - Writing On The Walls (HD) - YouTube[/ame]


Now?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UR8cjlshA"]Beartooth - Rock Is Dead (Audio) - YouTube[/ame]

Beethoven did erotica? Interesting.... ;)

Thank you @mdm

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I especially like Brahms, but Mahler and Beethoven are close - I'm a Romantic, what can I say. My second suggestion was Scheherazade though :)

Yeah, Mahler too - and more dramatically captures the essence of orgasm IMO. One moment while I find exactly where that is, I never remember exactly... However, that's Eroica - missing a "t"... ;)

Ok, it's Mahler 8, which itself is... well, you'll probably never have it that good. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYEOLwVfU8"]Mahler: Symphony No. 8 / Bernstein · Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - YouTube[/ame] - listen all the way through if you're willing and patient. The last ~10 minutes is a treat, as is... it starts around the ~22 minute mark, but about 25:20 is... well, you know. Follow the soprano, who unfortunately is lost a little in this otherwise superb recording. I have to say though, this one is worth owning and listening to on a stereo setup capable of producing proper dynamic range... unless, of course, you get to a live performance which is overwhelming, but worth every moment.

OK... not a big fan of Romanticism here, with exception of Brahms, who wasn't so much Romantic after all... And for me acceptable Russian music begins with Prokofiev and Stravinsky :D

Some say that Ravel has captured the essence of sexual intercourse in "Bolero", but that would be very sad sex... more like some sort of bland and forced masturbation ;)

Hah. I dunno about Bolero, recheck my post for that bit of Mahler's 8th. :)

I really enjoy the Russian composers as well, but if I'm performing it always gets a Romantic twist. Not really sure why, that's just how it goes. I'll always have a soft spot for Kalinnikov's 1st symphony, but that has as much to do with the fact it's the last symphony I performed, and I did so in Kumamoto, Japan in 1992... after 2 weeks on tour (Taipei, then to Japan where we hit Tokyo and Oguni before finishing in Kumamoto).

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsbobsA7w8&feature=share"]A DAY TO REMEMBER - I'm Made Of Wax Larry What Are You Made Of? (Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]




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So, if you're from the "current," and don't want to remove a rear "seat" to install a record player, can you just get these on mp3's on amazon or something? And yes, I admit, I suppose I should have just looked instead of asking that last part. I'm just heading out the door... And lazy

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It really is all in the performance/recording. I love Adagio For Strings.

Speaking of amazing performance/recording. This is my all-time favorite recording of AC-DC. It's a bootleg capture from the sound board.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbo8ZSWam9M"]AC/DC - Intro/Live Wire - Live [Nashville 1978] - YouTube[/ame]

It's great, and I have to admit that I think never heard Mahler's 8th for some reason... Definitely will catch up. Not sure about the soprano but Lenny looked absolutely ecstatic approaching that climax :D

I heard that one, the classical radio here plays it quite often. They like playing less-known Classical and Romantic composers, like Hummel, Wilms, Gade etc.

Максим - Не отдам

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99q9UKTA2AE"]Максим - Не отдам (Maksim - ne otdam) - YouTube[/ame]

Scionce is dead. We are in the dark ages again.