Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (Berceuse & Finale) 

I understand how you felt , several times I got chosen to solo the violin,although it wasn't this song

Amazing!

I played triangle for this piece in high school before I learned how to tune properly for Timpani and it literally changed my life

like from another planet

It's a privilege to get to play it

Same here. I get a BURST of goosebumps/ chills from head to toes when I hear those lush chords full of emotion.

Have you ever heard Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin?. There's a solo piano version and an orchestral arrangement. Listen to the prelude for the orchestral arrangement. This, the transition between the II and III movements in Shostakovich's Symphony no. 7 and the syncope on bar 73 of Poco piu vivo in Stravinsky's Pulcinella are some of my favorite moments in orchestral music.

I know what you mean. That feeling during the Berceuse in The Firebird. I remember that yearning dreamy feeling on my first listen. I think it's the Russian influence. A different way of approaching harmony and orchestration. Every harmonic line melts right into the next.

Yeah idd terrible dissonance

Why? Why? Why caugh over the isolated and defenseless horn solo. Go caugh over the tutti, the tympanii, whatever. Not over a lonely flute, oboé or fagot.

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But a perfectly timed cough.

​​@@spikespa5208that cough was infuriating. Was there a mic right on her??