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Although it's the most overplayed piece in the symphonic repertoire, I truly love the segue from the third to the fourth movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony:

The quiet, legato string theme in fast 3/4 time played above the tympani, leading into the triumphal opening theme of the last movement. That theme works so well because of how you get to it, and those few moments of the segue are magical.

But I could as easily name a number of moments from the Beethoven 9th Symphony, or the Mahler 2nd, or from the Chaconne of BWV 1004, or...

Great choices so far! I'll post some of my faves later in the week.

There's an old recording of Ashkenazy's 2nd Chopin Sonata in which he rolls the half-diminished ii chord in the final cadence of the first movement. (6 bars before the end)

I was familiar with the recording before I ever saw the score, and I always assumed that it was marked as arpeggiated. To this day, hearing people *not* arpeggiate the chord just seems wrong.

This?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTlTfdKlvI#t=7m8s