E - Thanks for all the recommendations. I will start ordering from Amazon immediately! I am a digital only person (computer based, actually), so the vinyl versions are not an option for me, but I believe much of what you recommend is available on cd. I may send you an email as I wade deeper into this music to get more advice from you. Thanks again! |
anytime Bryon, welcome to the world of English Cathedral music. Yes I know a lot of it is Italian, but you will find that the best recordings and performances are british choirs.
I welcome any questions.
e |
Rachmaninoff`s Symph #2
"Dance with a Stranger" - Yanni`s Tribute Album
"Captain of Her Heart"- Double
"Another Park, Another Sunday"- The Doobie Bros.
"Eternity Road"- The Moody Blues
"New Horizons"- The Moody Blues |
PMM, love the Rach,which one is it?
Love the Moody Blues too. |
Rachmaninoff Symp No. 2-Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic Orch. CD, Telarc Label.
Awsome. Just like the Moodies, don`t get tired of it. |
PMM, you may want to try the Rach piano concerto's on London with Ashkenazy.They are wonderful pressings of wonderful music.
Also just got a Harmonia box set of Purcell's opera "King Arthur", with The Arthur Deller Consort.This is a wonderful and sometimes funny piece,and the recording is amazing. These Harmonia Mundi/France pressings are some of the best.
e |
I talk to the wind, Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
Watermark, Enya
On the turning away, A momentary lapse of reason, Pink Floyd.
You ask for three I believe. These three choices have moved me
and provoked me. |
3. Beethoven - Cavatina from 13th String Quartet
2. Pearl Jam - Parachutes
1. Beethoven - Violin Concerto, 1st Movement |
Radiohead, Wilco, AA Bondy and Bon Iver |
Nick Drake, River Man
Allegri, Miserere
Cantique de Jean Racine Gabriel Faure |
Bermudapilot, the Alegri and the Faure and sublime. I count myself lucky to have performed them.
Who do you have doing them.
Don't know Nick Drake.
e |
Bermudapilot - absolutely, "The River Man". Thanks for posting that. Great string arrangements on this and other tracks of this recording.
e - if you aren't familiar with Nick Drake, you are in for a treat (I hope). He's dead but his music lives on (to use a cliche). The River Man is on a recording called, Five Leaves Left. Hope you will check him out. |
Mr Bojangles by Neil Diamond |
Bermuda; You need to play the Allegri this Wednesday, since it was written to be sung on Ash Wednesday at the Sistine Chapel. Don't wash the ash off either.It makes for better listening.
e |
Beethoven's 7th 2nd movement conducted by Seiji Ozawa. |
Valentine's Day by Steve Earle |
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My opening fairwell, Jackson Browne.
All things must pass, George Harrison.
Joni Mitchell. .too many to list. |
"Closing In" and "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap and "Gravity" by Sarah Bareilles. |
Honey Come Back-Glen Campbell |
The Beatles Love in surround. Exquisite.
Sergio Mendez-Fool on the Hill. The whole album is great.
Doobie Brothers Minute by Minute. Whole album again. |
How about "Saltwater" by Julian Lennon? |
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
Tycho: Past is Prologue |
Yoko - flip side of plastic ono band live in toronto |
To Love is to Bury - Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions. The song makes me feel grateful for what I have. |
Barber's adagio for strings always moves me as does Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma. What a terrific thread, I hope it runs another decade. |
Carrickfergus (traditional Irish song) as performed by Van the Man and the Chieftains on Irish Heartbeat... |
CSNY Cowgirl in the Sand, Neil Young doing The Needle and the Damage Done, Velvet Underground Oh! Sweet Nuthin' |
Elgar's Cello concerto played by Jacqueline du Pré...
...or Bach's 5th Suite for Cello.
Something about solo cello that is brooding, haunting, and ultimately moving! |
Pierre Bensusan's Intuite and Altiplanos:
Some of it literally make my eyes well up and brings on that slight hyperventilating that only something extremely moving can do. I've yet to hear anyone do (for me) what he can do with a guitar. |
King Crimson "Epitath" and "In the Wake of Poseidon" Nobody uses a mellotron better! |
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Dwight Yoakum
"It Won't Hurt" acoustic version |
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Barbers Adagio....probably strings. Pink Floyd- The Great Gig in the Sky. Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata, and I don't even listen to classical...much. |
Johnny Frigo with Buck and John Pizzarelli
Live from Studio A in New York City (SACD)
Recorded with a single stereo mic, at the RCA Studios in New York, the music is exquisite and the recording is one of the most natural sounding Live albums that I had the pleasure of hearing! |
OK - so there's not one, top of the heap "most achingly beautiful"...many great recommendations as a result. A couple of things I'm listening to lately that seem to qualify for inclusion:
1) 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) from Springsteen's "The Wild the Innocent and....".
2) Fake Plastic Trees from Radiohead's "The Bends"
Apologies if I'm simply duplicating someone else's earlier suggesions.
Ciao. |
I Know You By Heart - Eva Cassidy |
Sigur Ros "Hvart/Heim", Lisa Batiashvili "Sulkhan Tsintsadze", Arvo Part "Tabula Rasa" (Kremer/Jarrett version), Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Explosions in the Sky "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place", Coltrane "A Love Supreme", Copland "Appalachian Spring", Bach 6 Suites for Cello Solo. |
Funny how things seem appropriate when you're finally paying attention.
I just saw the movie, "Hereafter", by the one and only Clint Eastwood. I'm not aware that it was a 'smash' or even received all that well, but it was magnificent in so many ways; the most important way it was so, was the 'main theme'...and according to the end credits, 'music by Clint Eastwood'...I believe he wrote it.
It's a story about the mystical, magical 'hereafter' which some have described in near death experiences, and the obvious, oft told similarities of these tales.
It's not preachy, or even religious, just a telling of several people whose lives become linked through the commonalities of experience--and the music, the main theme is breathtakingly beautiful.
Eastwood is the master of subtleties (strange after, "Make my day", isn't it?) But he repeats the main theme melody line through the movie, using orchestra, solo electric guitar, piano...and it absolutely took my breath away.
Fans of music and great movies should run, not walk to the video store, (Red Box these days, or Netflix) and rent this movie. Better yet, go to Target...they're selling regular DVD's for ridiculous prices and folks, THIS IS A KEEPER! Don't miss it.
Good listening, (watching too)
PS: For the hornier of us out there, there's an incredibly sensual scene in which Damon and Byce Dallas Howard, (Ron Howard's daughter)are taking cooking classes and have to identify various foods while blindfolded---very sexy stuff, though really PG and only an actively horny mind like mine and Albert Porter's would notice.lol
Funny how that led me to remember my comments on how being blindfolded (for listening tests) causes some emotional/intellectual/sense,disconnect and IMHO invalidates most such tests.
Larry |
Netflix it is. Thanks for the inticing description Larry. |
Bander,
Remember that its a recurring theme...background so it won't jump out at you--however...for whatever reason, it really, really hit me hard that melody.
I do hope you enjoy it as much as I did--both the music and the movie.
Good listening and watching,
Larry |
Beatles' Love DVD-A, Tchaikovskys' Nuycracker Suite, and from way back in the country, the songs and melodies of Hank Williams Senior with his MoJo slide guitarist. |
Soundsbeyondspecs,
Good choices all...gotta love slide guitarists.
Good listening,
Larry |
Carrickfergus-(Jim McCann with the Dubliners) |
All late Beethoven, but in particular:
String Quartet Opus 131 - Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
Piano Sonote Opus 106 (Hammerklavier) - Adagio Sostenuto
Piano Sonote Opus 111 - Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert Part III |
Chopin, "Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58."
Regards,
-- Al |
Forgot to mention:
Dave Brubeck - Koto Song
Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves |
Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony - Beautiful themes to his 7 symphonies and this is my favorite! |
for me it's earth, wind and fire's sun goddess and gratitude album and santana's greatest hits and smooth jazz volume 2. I use these sound tracks to test my various solid state and tube systems and my electrostat and planar loudspeakers. Hearing various instruments is what moves me. I didn't know a few watts on a well made tube amp and tube cdp on an ess heil 1D modified would sound so live! |
