It has been fascinating to read all the replies that have come tumbling in after starting this topic. Several of the mentions have sent me running to the CDs or scores. I realize, for example, that I haven't got a recording of Britten's Violin Concerto - in spite of having recently acquired two CD collections which has tripled my library. I don't know it well enough to recall the bit Janexx talks about. Sonataform has some wonderful suggestions, and Dangermouse sent me searching for Gaspard de la Nuit again (I had a go at learning Ondine at Christmas. That orgasmic climax is marked in my score with numbers for each quaver beat: 7 against 6, 6 against 7, 7 against 5, 6 against 5 etc). I am surprised no one has mentioned that chord in the Rite of Spring at the end of the first section (Adoration of the Earth).

The one time I was suddenly reduced to tears in a concert was on hearing a piece by that remarkable composer Anon. I'm sure there's scope for a Wikipedia article on him. It was Victoria de los Angeles in the Wigmore Hall (her last appearance there I think). She launched into this gorgeous Spanish lullaby (something about a bogeyman - can't remember title). I'm sure I must have known it as a child from an old 78 record.

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (esp his arrival)

Agnus Dei from The Armed Man

and many more ...............

In Paradisum from Carl Jenkins' Requiem..lovely choral work and use of the harp too...

Me too - I think this has to rate among my current favourite threads

There's a magic moment for me in the Romanza of RVW's Tuba Concerto... just one chord and it is the fabbest thing ever.

Also, near the end of Walton's Crown Imperial, there's one chord of a brass fanfare which is just so excellent. It's even better when you play it in Herbert Murrill's organ arrangement. It makes me tingle every time.

The Story of the Kalender Prince, Scheherazade, Rimsky Korsakov

Miserere by Allegri

Pull Me Bantams from Britten's Billy Budd

All the ghosts scenes in the Britten opera Turn of the Screw

Tavener, We Shall See Him As He Is

Ooo, I like resurrected threads

I'll have to think through all the pieces that give me goosebumps, there are loads!!

But for now I'll leave it at anything with lots of suspensions, often renaissance choral works, and Dido's Lament

I Often get the goosebump sensation from choral arrangements of famous pop songs.

Although I love many famous classical pieces I never seem to gte the goosebump sensation however can be found to listen to them several times over in a short space of time.

Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2: the flute solo and the 5/4 Danse generale at the end.

Chopin's étude in F minor (the first from Trois nouvelles études) really sends a chill down my spine throughout. It's just amazing!

Here is a link to it. You should really take a listen.

Chopin etude in f minor

The end of defying gravity.
For good
I'm not that girl
(all from wicked)

This is the moment (Jekyll and Hyde)
La mama morta by callas
The moment when the violas start to play the theme quietly in the Elgar cello concerto in Em.

Almost any slow air played by Alasdair Fraser
Almost any minor or dorian key reel played by liz carroll

The cadenza in una furtiva lagrima (as sung by our Pav)
The soaring higher parts of che gelida manina (from ta-a-llor onwards)
E lucevan le stelle as sung by Pav too.

The counterpoint that builds to the final harmony in One Day More from les mis.
The morning of the dragon from miss saigon.

Arrrrrr - there are so many!

Just read the above, and burst into Una Furtiva Lagrima. Didn't half make the people in the greenhouses jump!