Some of these will appear as "lollipops" or "cliche" to the snobs.

Mahler 9- I'd like to say all four movements are the greatest symphonic
movements ever, but I'll go with the first.  I first heard this work done
by B.Walter when I was about 19, the first crescendo made me go weak in the
knees.

Grieg-Last movement from piano concerto (Rubinstein or Solomon)

Mussorgsky--Great Gate of Kiev (Horowitz 1953, Richter 1956 or Berman)

Mozart-Symph 40 1st-Beecham,Furtwangler
Mozart-P.S. k331 last-Fischer or Gieseking

Handel-Harmonious Blacksmith, Richter

Beethoven-111 last-Solomon
Beethoven-last 7th symph-Toscanini 1939
Beethoven-SQ 131 1st-Busch Quartet

Prokofiev-1st piano concerto-Gavrilov

Tchaikovsy -1st from 1st piano concerto-Horowitz/Toscanini 1949
Tchaikovsky-6th symph opening mvmt--Furtwangler

Rachmaninov-1st from 1st piano concerto-Horowitz/Reiner 1953
Rachmaninov-last from sonata# 2-Van Cliburn
Rachmaninov-1st Trio#2 Oistrakh,Oborin et.al

Bach-Chaconne from Violin Partita in D-Heifetz 1929 or Michaelangeli
1943.

Brahms- 3rd from 3rd symph--Koussevitsky

Chopin-Funeral March from 2nd sonata-Ignaz Friedman or Rubinstein
Chopin-Opening, Sonata#3-Gilels or Kapell

Schubert-3rd mvmt-960 Rubinstein

all for now,

Sam Pawlett