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Chorister
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Elgar Cello Concerto
Bach Double Violin Concerto
Both very moving. I love cello music because it is such an emotive instrument, tugging at the heartstrings. And Bach's intricate interweaving of the two instruments ties my heartstrings in knots.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, especially played on the cello. I listened to this a lot when my father was dying, and it always leaves me in tears.
I love Allegri's Miserere, it is really beautiful to listen to, I have on old recording of King's Choir singing it which is pitch perfect.
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balaam
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If we're in serious music then Circumstances by Rush.
Otherwise I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by Handel. (Except for recordings where the Contralto sings "leaveth.)
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Starbug
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For Unto Us A Child Is Born from Handel's Messiah. Or, for an instrumental by the same composer, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon. I love Handel. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
[ 14. October 2012, 19:53: Message edited by: Starbug ]
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Horatio Harumph
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Gabriels Oboe - Ennio Morricone
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Metamorphosis Series by Philip Glass
I always always wanted to walk down the aisle to Gabriels Oboe, until my Mum chose it as the music for my Grans funeral as she entered the Crem, and as we left. Not sure if I would ever be able to use it now for my wedding, but it is still a piece of music that I absolutely adore, and means a lot to me.
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by leo:
I have just listened to Bach's Matthew passion in one sitting - only 2 3/4 hours. Wonderful.
Wow. I'd need a little lie down in a darkened room after that.
For me, music has to wear its heart on its sleeve if it's really going to move me. Mahler, Bruckner, Wagner and Bach have the highest ht rate with me (and what is it that makes me put Bach with the other three? - I've no idea). Wagner exults me, Mahler pierces my heart, Bruckner throws me all over the place, and sometimes into a fit of gloom, and Bach scares me because he can do anything he likes with my emotions. I have to be very careful about listening to Bach in the car. At the moment, the opening of the Christmas Oratorio is thrilling me. I have to keep reminding myself to breathe.
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Pomona
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The canticles of Hildegard of Bingen, especially Alma Redemptoris Mater and O Tu Suavissima Virga.
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Figbash
The Doubtful Guest
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For sheer exhilaration and generation of positive energy, I wouldn't say you can go much wrong with one of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's crazed allegro fugatos (particularly the 6th and 7th symphonies).
For general encountering the transcendent, I find it hard to beat the finale of Henze's seventh symphony.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
I have to be very careful about listening to Bach in the car. At the moment, the opening of the Christmas Oratorio is thrilling me. I have to keep reminding myself to breathe.
You and me both! I've been listening to the Christmas Oratorio quite a lot lately (ideas for Christmas music, you know). And you're so right about driving while listening to Bach. Sometimes I find myself directing more than driving. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) Ooops.
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Welease Woderwick
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Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts and Te Deum both hit me in different ways.
The Britten War Requiem.
Bach as stated before.
Schubert's chamber music.
Jessye Norman singing Strauss's Four Last Songs.
Ella singing Ev'rytime we say goodbye.
...and one for piglet: Weelkes 9th Service.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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At the moment it's Gabriel Faure. In abundance. I've just bought 4 CDs with his songs and I'm taking the opportunity to go through all of his work that I have, which also includes the piano music and most of the chamber music.
He really is one of my favourite composers. The number of 'ooh' moments is just astounding.
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Alaric the Goth
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Originally posted by balaam:
If we're in serious music then Circumstances by Rush.
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Oh, yes. And The Gates of Delirium by Yes.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Another thought as this song has been a major obsession for the past year: Snowflake by Kate Bush.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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One of the most moving pieces of music I've been listening to lately is This I Love, from Guns 'N' Roses Chinese Democracy album.
The refrain runs:
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So if she's somewhere near me
I hope to God she hears me
There's no one else could ever make me feel I'm so alive
I hoped she'd never leave me
Please God you must believe me
I've searched the universe and found myself within her eyes
Seriously, that last line is just awesome.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Leonard Cohen's 'If it be your will'. It's on his Live in London double cd and it is ... well, very moving. If I want the congo to be in bits at my funeral *that's* what I'll ask for! ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Mrs. S, desperately searching for a tissue
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Adeodatus
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I'm just doing a bit of admin work, and I have the last movement of Mahler's 3rd symphony on my headphones. I once read a review of it in which the reviewer said it's the sort of music you want never to end. They were right. Profoundly moving.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto in C minor, especially the second movement.
Also the second movement of his fifth piano concerto.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Ella singing Ev'rytime we say goodbye.
Oh yes, definitely. When I was an undergraduate I had a wind-up gramophone. If we were ending the evening on a high we'd put on the Soviet National Anthem: if in a mellower mood we'd put on Ella and sit there quietly and contentedly blubbing for a couple of minutes.
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