Yeah, I’d suppose you’d have to really like the loud parts for the solo to do the number on you that it does on me. There’s a big difference between sitting through 8 minutes of music for the 1 minute you like, versus enjoying 8 minutes of a song, and being surprised by an unexpected and out of place solo. Thank you for the thread, though, I did not know I liked the Canadian Brass before it.
I think it was less that the other parts were loud than that they were fast. The only really fast music I can think of that grabs me emotionally are the Ode to Joy and the Hallelujah Chorus. Usually very fast pieces sound to me like just a mass of sound - great for showing off the ability of the musician(s), but not touching my heart. That’s of course entirely idiosyncratic.
What? Is there something wrong with you?? A Lark Ascending is ACE!
Clearly parts of your brain are still functioning normally, as Fantasia on a Theme is also an excelent song.
The end of Wagner’s Das Rheingold when the Rhinemaidens lament their lost treasure.
When the damned Dutchman’s crew responds to the drink song in The Flying Dutchman makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Paint It, Black is the best rock and roll song of all time. 
You know what’s a pleasant piece of music? “The Dance of the Neighbors” from Manuel de Falla’s “Three-Cornered Hat.”
Or, also pleasant, Schumann’s "About Strange Lands and People
Schubert’s "Trout Quintet
Griegs’s “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen”
Rather than being a supernatural setting like Peer Gynt, that was someone’s estate, was it not?
Pleasant is pleasant, but I’m kind of asking for the pieces that transcend pleasant - the pieces that just take your breath away - that make you want to cry with either joy or sadness, that make you wonder how anyone else can hear them without feeling the same way, the ones that make you wonder how the composer could possibly have held that kind of beauty and emotion inside his or her mind and managed to get it down on paper.
For most, but not all of us, that has been classical music of some sort. Probably Beethoven’s 9th, the Ode to Joy in particular, has been the single most frequently mentioned piece in this thread, and indeed, it’s hardest of all to imagine how someone could have held that in his head, written it down, and never, ever have heard it. But the things being mentioned here, for the most part, I think, have been more than pleasant to the people mentioning them. They have almost been life-changing.
The Lark just witters and twitters for ages and ages, with no direction or purpose. Bird-brained, one might say D: The Tallis Fantasia is the absolute opposite to this.
Please, there will be none of that in this thread. It’s my thread, and I’d rather have it closed if that’s how people want to be.
Handel’s **Dixit Dominus ** will give the Hallelujah Chorus a run for its money. It is in a minor key and sounds like God is giving you one last warning before shipping your sorry ass down to the minor leagues.
If your neighbors piss you off with their rap and techno, blast back with Widor’s mighty Organ Symphony. Calm, stately, thoughtful, until the sixth movement when all hell breaks lose.
And, I never tire of the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy For the Devil, or Traffic’s Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.
Dixit Dominus reminded me why, even though Beethoven’s 9th remains my favorite major work, the Baroque composers remain my favorite composers over all. I had never heard of Widor, but I listened to the Prelude and the Toccata. Wow!
The rock classics are, of course, great. Sympathy has always been my favorite Stones song.
Oh, where to start.
There are so, so many songs. But I grew up with one in particular and it still sends chills up and down my spine. A brilliant, stirring piece of music: The William Tell Overture.
However…I went looking for a clip on Youtube and I found a slight variation on it. Sit back, relax and enjoy!
Oh, Clothahump, I’ll say something I’ve never said to you before - that was marvelous!