Arguably the greatest symphonic slow movement ever, the adagio of the seventh symphony of Anton Bruckner. This recording is by the Berlin Philharmonic in 1942 -- yes, from the sickest cesspool of gangster rule in inhuman history, Nazi Germany. Evil people can love great music, too -- just a warning.
This was the official mourning music for the Demons' Reich, playing on the radio after such events as the final surrender of German forces at Stalingrad, the formal surrender of the Third Reich to the Allies, and above all the death of Adolf Hitler. In a way this piece of music (and this may be the recording) might be more for celebration. It's old, so the brasses may not have full power, but the strings and winds are exactly what one would expect of the Berlin Philharmonic in better times for Germany.
This was the official mourning music for the Demons' Reich, playing on the radio after such events as the final surrender of German forces at Stalingrad, the formal surrender of the Third Reich to the Allies, and above all the death of Adolf Hitler. In a way this piece of music (and this may be the recording) might be more for celebration. It's old, so the brasses may not have full power, but the strings and winds are exactly what one would expect of the Berlin Philharmonic in better times for Germany.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.