...makes me want to cry. Also, Sade's "Pearls" - if you've got a kid, it breaks your heart. I'm getting teary just thinking about it. |
Last night, I popped in a newly purchased nearly mint LP (Goodwill, .99 on sale for .49). The LP was Beethoven: Konzert fur Violine und Orchester D-dur op. 61'. Christian Ferras violin, and the Berlin Philharmonic with Herbert von Karajan conducting. DG Records (German press).
It the finest classical music I've (newly)heard in 25 years. I'm still buzzing ten hours later. |
Korngold's movie themes, Robin Hood, etc |
Someone needed to bring them up. |
henryk mikolaj gorecki symphony no. 3 'symphony of sorrowful songs' |
1.Epitaph/King crimson(music and words in a perfect harmony)
2.Michal Nyman/Miserie(no words)soundtracks from a Greenway's movie Cook,thief,wife and lover
3.Traktory/Plastic people of the universe(primitive song of pain from living in Orwell's world)
4.Sunday Morning/Velvet Underground(innocent start of velvet revolution) |
Barber's "Adagio for Strings", Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up", Moody Blue's "Driftwood", and sorry for one extra, but Steeleye Span's "Gaudete". |
Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio for Strings -- and half a jillion others. |
I'd say the second movement of Bruckner 7th. Or maybe the adagio of the 9th. |
Morten Lauridsen - "O nata lux" and "O Magnum Mysterium" (choral music) |
Dvorak: New World Symphony;
Wilco: damn-near all of it |
Also, Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No1, and Solvejg's Song from Suite No.2. And "Meditation" from"Thais" by Jules Massenet.
John Dean |
It always brings tears to my eyes when my father sang to us when we were young then " One day, when we were young one wonderful morning in May; you told me you love me, one day when we were young........ Sadly missed my father who passed away 8 years ago
Michael Ko |
Christmas around 2000 or so I heard a girl sing that I do not even know if I have her name correct but I think it was Denice Graves. she sang a song that I am not sure the name of either, I think it was "Come back Mary and Follow" that left three men literaly in tears each trying to hide it from the other and two were defensive lineman for the Auburn Tigers. I am unfamiliar with this singer, but I am sure others know her well as she sang at the memorial for thee World Trade Center I think it was. My point being she has a voice that is as gifted as as any music, that can be produced by any instument on earth, by any person. |
Hello,
I love this thread. However, all I ever listen to is achingly-beautiful music. So, I'm going to list 12 but from a vast array of music types.
1. Bartok--Piano Concerto in F (#2). Gena Anda/DG or the Janodo/Naxos verions. Listen to the 2nd movement (Adagio-Presto-Adagio). That introductory string phrase just kills me inside. I have 3 versions of that work and looking for more. Man should never be able to transverse emotion that effortlessly.
2.Wagner--Tristan und Isolde. On vinyl, find the Decca/London with the VPO under Solti; on CD, find the DG Originals with Karl Bohm and the Berlin. In particular, I like Act 3 from the prelude to the last part of the eternal aria 'Isolde’s Liebestod'. Very heart-moving music.
3. Bill Evans-With Symphony Orchestra. Here is the master of impressionistic jazz with a full orchestra playing Bach, Granados, Scraibin, and more. I have a affinity to his piece "Time Remembered" and this version is a tear-trampler.
4. Miles Davis--Kind of Blue. Here, I'm refering to the Bill Evans composition Some Other Time (Flamenco Sketches). The music sublime with an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.
5.Beethoven--Missa Solemnis (Santus, Benediction, Agnus Dei). At a time when Beethoven was deeply in the trenches of defeat, this piece came about. You really feel the sorrow and the 'giving up' he felt at that time. It's 40 minutes of a 90+ minute question to God: Why me?
6. Milt Jackon--Reverence and Compassion (Here's to A Rainy Day). Such emotion! Such a coherence of harmony. Remarkable temperance of the vibraphone.
7.Bill Evans-Symbiosis (MPS). Just beautiful.
8.Keith Jarrett--The Koln Concert (Part 2a)...the last 6 mintues of this piece build to this heartbreaking climax, as of the end is never fully resolved.
9.Bach-Christ lag in totesbonden (christ lies in death's arms). This piece will grab you with sorrow Johann intended to put into it.
10.Miles Davis--Iris and Mood (from E.S.P.). Just listen...trust me!
11.Hindemith--Piano Sonata #1. Listen to the third movement, Lebhaft. It's so emotion....typical Hindemtih.
12. Diana Krall--The Girl in the Other Room. Listen to Almost Blue's prelude. Sounds very simlar to #11.
Marty |
I'm not a classical type of guy (so, sue me!), but David Bowie's "Heroes" always brings tears to my eyes. One of the most hauntingly beautiful pop/rock songs I've ever heard. |
- Tsai Chin singing "Mindlessly Waiting" from her "Old Songs" album in Mandarin Chinese.
- Evgeny Kissin playing Chopin's Fantaisie in F Minor.
- Jacintha singing "Autumn Leaves".
- Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
- Rurouni Kenshin OVA soundtrack "In Memories 'A Boy Meets a Man'". |
Tonight's Shelter From The Storm concert. |
id say the swan theme from swan lake there is so many from tchikovsky i dont know where to begin also 2nd movement from the 5th synphony some rachmaninov and also vaunhn williams 5th synphony |
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"MOZART, MOZART!!" cried signori Saleri. |
Lisa Gerrard - Duality
Pergolesi - Stabat Mater, Decca, Scholl and Bonney
Ella Fitzerald - Jazz 'Round Midnight' - Polygram |
geez Slappy,i got a good laugh on that one ,ive pictured the same thing!with me its more like sitting in the sweet spot drooling when i play Sade!i get visuals when i listen to her, |
1) Richard Strauss, Last Four Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) sung by Lucia Popp, on Sony with Thomas conducting LSO: play it late at night, and if you cannot get that recording don't bother. 2) Nathan Milstein's Bach Solo Sonatas/Partitas. 3)Quan Zhou and Edmund Battersby playing Romance in F minor, op. 11, on Dvorak: Music for Violin and Piano, Vol 1, on Naxos. 4) Josef Suk and Julius Katchen (and only them) playing the Brahms Violin Sonatas. |
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Gonglee3,
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I picked the moniker "Cello" due to my love of the instrument. Unfortunately, I don't play. I have dabbled in several instruments, but never the Cello or Violin.
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I also have a great passion for the Violin and Viola as well.
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Anne is one of my favorite Violinists. I have quite a few of David Oistrak's LPs. I also love and collect Henryk Szeryng's LP's. Some of his recordings are just incredible.
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Rgds,
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I had to revive this again - Samual Barber Adagio
Also its the main theme to the movie Platoon. Just beatiful |
I too like Anne Akiko's playing - I went to school with her - and she was as nice as beautiful even then. I play the cello - do you play also?
Her playing is different from the usual New-York style of Isaac Stern group - softer and sentimental in approach. Pleasure to find a musician who will follow a different drumer - we enjoy variety this way.
I love the sound of David Oistrach's violin - so rich and deep - pierces my heart and not just my ears on a good system. |
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Dvorak Romance for Violin and Orchestra (Anne Akiko Meyers playing violin)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, "The Lark Ascending" - romance for violin and Orchestra (Anne Akiko Meyers).
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Both pieces are on an out of print CD that has Anne Akiko Meyers playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, both pieces above and Massenet's Meditation.
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This is just a gorgeous, gorgeous CD that is worth looking for on eBay. Anne’s playing is just heavenly and the music is to die for.
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Dvorak New World, Moody Blue Nights in White Satan (or practically any other Moody Blues), Saint-Saens Sym 3 Organ. |
good suggestions Boa2.
and im all for jamie cullum. his cover of "high and dry" is fantastic but he totally ruined "Lover you shouldve come over" |
ill look into those two - thanks Boa2 |
Isn't it? One of my top-10, for certain.
If you like that, try out Nick Drake "Pink Moon".
I really enjoy Tim Buckley as well! |
i know and love that one too. that whole album is beautiful |
Artg & Joymechanicalboy,
Skip about 4 songs down on the same album..."Lover,
you should have come over." What a weeper! |
ditto joysmechanicalboy's choice! |
"last goodbye" jeff buckley. also one of the best songs of all time. |
On any given day, my list will change. Woe is me, there is too much good music! Here is today's list.
1.Bach, Liebster Gott, wenn will ich sterben? The recent Suzuki/Bis release has A+ sonics and B+ performance (Herrewehge on Harmonia Mundi is even more touching, but dated sonics) As you listen, think about the joyful, eager anticipation with which death was anticipated at that time.
2/Schutz - Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kretz,( Suzuki/Bis is a good bet, the older John Elliot Gardner is better, but dated sonics again.
3. Beethoven, symphony 7, 2nd movement- Live performance by Mario Venzago and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, June 2003- This was the most beautiful performance of any music, live or recorded, I have ever heard. Wow! I was stunned, and fighting back the tears. Telarc needs to come to Indy and see what's happening here! |
I'd have to second Papertrail's choice, "Brothers in Arms" definitely an emotional and beautiful song.
I can’t imagine a Vietnam veteran who could listen to that without losing it. I was never in the war, but I’ve had to turn it off a couple of times to avoid falling apart. I admit it. |
Antony and the Johnsons, "Now I am a Bird". Angelic voice, nicely recorded. |
Drubin, Newbee, find the Delos recording of the Voices of Ascension (downtown from you, Drubin, in Manhattan) singing the Durufle Requiem, I think you may find that to your liking as well. They're style of singing (flat tone) serves the plainsong origins of the Durufle perfectly. |
the first track on Rufus Wainwright's "Want Two" is not bad.
There is a fine heart string puller on Tom Wait's recent "Real Gone" called "The Day After Tomorrow" what about Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko "Suspended Night" the whole of that album is full of hauntingly beautiful music. These are few examples from recent purchases but the list could go on and on. |
Mendelson Symphony #5 the Finale. It's very beautiful to me. |
Me too. Dar Williams "The Honesty Room" comes to mind. |
You can't buy too much music! But FWIW, how embarrassing can it be to be browsing thru a record store and see something thats really appealing, buy it and when you get home find out you have a copy. Been there, done that! :-) |
Oh s**t! I just realized I have that, and on hybrid SACD no less. Have to give a listen tonight. (I buy too much music.) |
Drubin, HMC901292 "Faure/Messe De Requiem".
The other version by Herreweghe with larger orchestral forces is HMC901771. This includes an excellent Franck Symphony in B minor. Both are scaled down from the typical performances and are very enjoyable if for no other reason than that. But their are other reasons! :-) If you've got a spare $18 buy both. |
Newbee, can you provide more information on that specific recording? There are at least two by Herreweghe on HM and I want to get the one you are referring to. |
Faure's Requiem, in the original version, by Herreweghe on Harmonia Mundi. This is one of the most intimate, serenely beautiful, and works in the catalog (that I have ever heard). Sounds nothing(!) like the fully orchestrated version, or even Herreweghe's later version made with large forces, which is also excellent by any standard. I would choose this for my own memorial service! |
A fellow A'goner just turned me on to the 1986 recording of the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir performing the Rachmaninoff Vespers. If ever there was achingly beautiful, this be it. A must-have if you like choral music. MOS 18733. |
...from Saxophone Colossus is incredible. Much late-50's Art Pepper will give you goosebumps....Coltrane's A Love Supreme is up there of course....Anita O'Day singing "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two" in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day always kills me..."Perfect Day" by Lou Reed stikes me as a perfect song...and TOOL's Aenima is awesome... |
