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John McFarlane's avatar

I absolutely love Mahler's Fifth, my mom used to blast it through the house when we would do a "cleaning day." All the best pieces from the Romantic Era express this deep-seating emotion; you listen to the piece and you feel something in your chest, you're moved to tears without understanding why. I don't know if any era of music before or after has found a way to stir my emotions quite like it. Mahler 5, Tchaikovsky's 5th, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre and his Carnival of the Animals, and Elgar's cello concerto are some of my favorites.

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Kieran McLean's avatar

This is a good list, thank you! I’ll try to go to all of these—they’re playing Tchaikovsky’s Fifth soon in Auckland.

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John McFarlane's avatar

Tchaikovsky's 5th is perhaps my single favorite piece of music ever made, the second movement in particular literally sucks my breath out when I see it played live.

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Kieran McLean's avatar

I’m excited! I went to see Mozart’s Jupiter on Thursday and thought “Incredible. This sounds just like my most recent visit to Jupiter. How did he do it?”

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