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Looking for some music to add to my collection. Which songs/pieces do you consider to be among some of the most beautiful, moving, or affecting in any way?
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Sora
Farewell:
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I really liked the second one...very beautiful...
PS...found on You Tube and added to my favorites list...
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Second movement is my favorite...
I feel joy, hope, and incredible sadness, all rolled into one...
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The beauty of our world...
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elleng
(131,107 posts)I text my daughter whenever its played on 'our' radio station.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)elleng
(131,107 posts)Can hear the river!
alfredo
(60,075 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Miserere by Gregorio Allegri, sung by the choir of New College, Oxford:
The entire CD is wonderful. I give it my highest recommendation. The Title of the CD is Agnus Dei, Music of Inner Harmony. The label is Erato.
The Agnus Dei is an arrangement of the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.
Agnus Dei:
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Cantique du Jean Racine, by Gabriel Faure:
Anything by Anonymous Four is good:
Anything by The Tallis Scholars is good too:
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)40 part vocal writing (8 subgroups of 5). It's a really singular piece of music.
This subthread is great. Miserere, Spem in Alium, and the Missa Papae Marcelli are pretty much the pinnacle of Renaissance vocal music, and are all underappreciated.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)I always liked this piece, very Coplandesque to me. It's great in the movie too!
I'll post some more tomorrow.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Still holds up. I really like the piece, too bad it's synth...
elleng
(131,107 posts)Wings
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)Check this out
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Probably not what people would typically call "beautiful", but I think it is, just for the many layers of instruments. Best heard through earphones to get the full effect.
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And this one...the words are so moving and convey so many emotions. It tears at my heart... Such a beautiful love song.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Fanfare to the Common Man
Mirror in the Mirror, Arvo Part
BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)Check out the Mariza performance posted below.
I guess you are a photographer. Join us in the photography group. If I've missed your posts, chalk it up to my age.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I'm not real fond of his sister, but there's a youtube video of him singing a duet with her that is amazing.
I've posted a few times in the photography group.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)My wife has a beautiful voice (coloratura soprano), but one of her sisters can't carry a tune in a bucket.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)rogerballard
(2,895 posts)I think he is genius, he has done some movie scores, although it is a horror film, the soundtrack from "Candy Man" is awesome. Check out Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" and rather obscure but fun is Tangerine Dream. Patrick O'Hearn has some good stuff also.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Roxy Music, More Than This...
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Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo a la Turk...
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)Brubeck's Blue Rondo is so amazing. I love the rhythms, the way the melody winds in and out and the way the slow parts lull you...and then, bam! Back into the fast jazzy measures!
Wow. I've always loved this one.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)The video sucks, but the audio performance will turn you into a quivering mass.
Her life was a tragedy. Beauty and pain seems to work in concert.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)P.S. The video is wonderful too.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)sung by Maurice McMullen of the group Bracken.
Liam Clancy has a fine version of The Orchard too.
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polly7
(20,582 posts)LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)I think Devin Townsend's "Deep Peace" is a great song.
Especially the instrumental part in the middle is amazing.
(Most of my other favorite songs are a more intense)
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)She was an accountant at the time....
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)(1) Brahms' Requiem
(2) Mahler Symphony #2 (Resurrection Symphony)
(3) Duruflé Requiem (all of it, but in particular the Introit/Kyrie, and the last section, the "In Paradisum"
(4) Mahler Symphony #8, in its entirety.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)EastTennesseeDem
(2,675 posts)Two songs with similar subjects, performed very differently. Two of my all-time faves. But they are pretty damn heartbreaking.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the great English composer, should be on your list.
"The Lark Ascending" for viola and orchestra is sublimely beautiful. If you like that, do give a listen to his "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" and his Pastoral Symphony. VW is my favorite composer and has something for every mood.
AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Erique Albéniz, "Tango"
Gustav Mahler, "Adagietto" from Symphony no. 5
I'm thinking of having the "Adagietto" played at my "funeral"
sibelian
(7,804 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)- (just a snippet - starts 40 seconds in - lovely bit of guitar thrown away on a kids TV programme)
- (sounds like an angel's elevator music)
- (melting guitars like honey)
- (just incredibly wholehearted and joyful)
- (like seeing the Northern lights for the first time)
- (like watching the sun rise in a perfect blue sky over the arctic)
sibelian
(7,804 posts)(hmmmmm. it's all about the crescendo at 2:11 which is practically pornographic...)
&feature=related (stunning track from "the Lovely Bones"
(Kate Bush. And her son...)
And some more from Kate:
sibelian
(7,804 posts)(sweeping green pastoral landscapes reminding us that joy can also be a serious thing)
(Just exquisite - pure sensuality - naked wonder and mysticism)
(the air is full of magical anticipation and suddenly at 1:14 the whole piece bursts out laughing - very appropriate for Shakespear's bawdy comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream" you can even hear Bottom hee-hawing around 3:16)
And, you'll probably laugh at me - but here are some film soundtracks that are basically just wasted on the movies...
(Sends chills down my spine)
(weird, romantic, seductive waltz that seems somehow slightly... off-kilter...)
(just extraordinary, an exercise on stretching the limits of understandable harmony - incredibly uplifting)
AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)whatchamacallit
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auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed from the Transformer album. Beautiful song.
DFW
(54,436 posts)A Child Should Be A Fish by Leo Kottke (from Ice Water, 1974)
On and On by Stephen Bishop
One Part Be My Lover by Bonnie Raitt
Walk In The Sun; Til The Dreaming's Done by Bruce Hornsby
The End Of The Innocence by Don Henley
almost anything by Enya
Twenty years ago, a friend of ours in her mid-thirties was dying of cancer. I put most of these on a cassette for her to listen to in the hospital, and she said the music helped her find peace with her hopeless situation.
BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)before she died. I compiled a set of music which I hoped brought her some comfort. I'd like to think that it did during that difficult time when sometimes music can express what we feel much better than words. I do think she liked it and I miss her so much to this day. (((Ingrid)))
likesmountains 52
(4,098 posts)Chopin...
BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)OP calls for: Beautiful, moving & affecting...this hits all three notes, imo:
"Green" (Its not easy being Green...)
Light Out of Darkness:
kwassa
(23,340 posts)from the Messiah, George Frediric Handel
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)Second to none...even though I consider myself an atheist/agnostic. I absolutely love (and can fully appreciate) the melody and the pure heart and sincerity that Jackson pours into this song all the same...even if I will never, ever adhere/subscribe/believe in the actual lyrics!
For me, the overall feelings/musicality trumps the words, imo and I find it extremely inspirational, all the same:
Mahalia Jackson (belting out): In The Upper Room:
She 'nails it' squarely in her own way, and I completely respect that!