Most beautiful music thread.

[Locut0s]

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]

1. OK, I got two for now

Sora

Farewell:

[pipi_k]

3. Thank you

I really liked the second one...very beautiful...




PS...found on You Tube and added to my favorites list...

[sakabatou]

4. Even better with video

[pipi_k]

2. A couple...

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]

5. Thanks for the Rach 2.

I text my daughter whenever its played on 'our' radio station.

[Locut0s]

17. Thanks for the Rachmaninov, love that. nt

[elleng]

6. Ma Vlast, the Moldau

Can hear the river!

[alfredo]

32. What good is a music collection without this?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony, the Choir of New College, Oxford, label Erato.

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]

11. If you like Renaissance choral music, nothing beats Tallis' Spem in Alium:

[Locut0s]

22. Wow.

[cemaphonic]

63. You should take a look at the score sometime

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]

19. Funny I was going to post Miserere in my original OP. I love that and I'm an Atheist! :) nt

[TuxedoKat]

8. Here you go

I always liked this piece, very Coplandesque to me. It's great in the movie too!

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I'll post some more tomorrow.

[whatchamacallit]

58. Happened to catch this flick again on cable the other night

Still holds up. I really like the piece, too bad it's synth...

[elleng]

9. Mull of Kintyre

Wings

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. This is one of the loveliest pieces of music I can think of.

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[BlueJazz]

13. Nice chord movement.

[alfredo]

30. lovely

Check this out

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[charlie and algernon]

12. O Magnum Mysterium

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[pipi_k]

14. A couple more...

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]

15. Here's a couple

Fanfare to the Common Man

Mirror in the Mirror, Arvo Part

[BrendaBrick]

16. Tribute: Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time

[Major Nikon]

18. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, sung by Rufus Wainwright

[alfredo]

26. He has one of the finest voices out there.

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]

31. I like both him and his dad

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]

35. Not everyone in the family can have the same golden voice.

My wife has a beautiful voice (coloratura soprano), but one of her sisters can't carry a tune in a bucket.

[sakabatou]

20. Every Heart (Kyle Landry cover)

[sakabatou]

21. Inner Light Suite

[rogerballard]

23. Philip Glass

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]

24. "Round Midnight" Miles Davis 1956

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[alfredo]

25. This will bring a tear to your eye. Mariza "Gente Da Minha Terra"

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[WCGreen]

27. Debussy, Claire de lune

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Roxy Music, More Than This...

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Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo a la Turk...

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. Thanks for the jump-start to my morning!

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]

41. Good choices.

[alfredo]

28. Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro

The video sucks, but the audio performance will turn you into a quivering mass.

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Her life was a tragedy. Beauty and pain seems to work in concert.

[Avalux]

33. Anything by Sigur Ros....but this one always makes me feel good even when I'm in a bad mood.

P.S. The video is wonderful too.

[frogmarch]

34. The Orchard

sung by Maurice McMullen of the group Bracken.

Liam Clancy has a fine version of The Orchard too.

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[polly7]

36. Andrea Boccelli has some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

37. May or may not be up your alley...

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]

38. Anything by Yanni, but here is one of his best.

[WCGreen]

42. I use to work with his sister...

She was an accountant at the time....

[markpkessinger]

39. I'll offer four works for consideration . . .

(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&quot
(4) Mahler Symphony #8, in its entirety.

[Arugula Latte]

40. Can't go wrong with "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake

[EastTennesseeDem]

43. "Ladder Song" and "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down"

Two songs with similar subjects, performed very differently. Two of my all-time faves. But they are pretty damn heartbreaking.

[Spider Jerusalem]

44. A few here:

[alfredo]

45. This might do the trick

[Doc_Technical]

46. Soon by Yes

[KurtNYC]

47. Erik Satie

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[demmiblue]

48. A few: Mazzy Star, Mary Black and Loreena McKennitt:

[hifiguy]

49. A couple pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams,

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]

50. Here's four for you.

[KansDem]

51. Here are two more...

Erique Albéniz, "Tango"

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Gustav Mahler, "Adagietto" from Symphony no. 5

I'm thinking of having the "Adagietto" played at my "funeral"

[sibelian]

52. Here are two things that never fail to move me:

[sibelian]

53. Oh, yeah, and these

- (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]

54. More...

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(hmmmmm. it's all about the crescendo at 2:11 which is practically pornographic...)

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(Kate Bush. And her son...)

And some more from Kate:

[sibelian]

55. And some more orchestral stuff

(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]

56. This piece of music never fails to move me.

[whatchamacallit]

57. Can't leave these out

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[auburngrad82]

59. This one might seem odd to you

"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed from the Transformer album. Beautiful song.

[DFW]

60. Several pieces

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]

66. I did something similar when my best friend was in the hospital

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]

61. I love these two

Chopin...

[BrendaBrick]

62. Shirley Horn Toss Up:

OP calls for: Beautiful, moving & affecting...this hits all three notes, imo:

"Green" (Its not easy being Green...)

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Light Out of Darkness:

[kwassa]

64. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd.

from the Messiah, George Frediric Handel

[bigwillq]

65. Robyn "Be Mine"

[BrendaBrick]

67. One of my all-time best "feel-good" songs....hands down ~

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:

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She 'nails it' squarely in her own way, and I completely respect that!