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Most achingly-beautiful music

Ultimately, we listen to music to be moved, for example, to be elated, exulted, calmed or pained. Which are the 3 most affecting pieces of music do you find the most affecting?

Marlec@hotmail.com

07-23-00

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07-23-00 Oops, excuse the jumbled last sentence! you get the gist of ... Marlec@

07-23-00 Tchaikovsky, violin concerto; janacek, first string quartet ... Dar

07-24-00 Almost anything by the moody blues pre-1973. one of a kind s ... Treyhoss

07-24-00 Vocalise played by nadja. John_l

07-24-00 Watermark by enya Bobspeak

07-24-00 Guitarist john williams performing carlo domeniconi Eldragon

07-24-00 The slow movement from mahler's 5th Avguygeorge

07-24-00 4th movement(adagietto) from mahler's 5th; barber's adagio f ... Khrys

07-24-00 This could be a long list, but i'll mention only the ones th ... Sdcampbell

07-24-00 Barber's adagio for strings was also used in the platoon sou ... Dkuipers

07-24-00 Please forgive the length of this post: i second (or third) ... Timwat

07-24-00 1. margo timmins, cowboy junkies "powder finger" ... Garfish

07-24-00 Well many of the above pieces would certainly be on my long ... Tubegroover

07-24-00 This was an excellent post marlec !! i have obtained very us ... Et

07-24-00 Et fur elise is by beethoven not chopin. this is a mandat ... Tubegroover

07-24-00 Threnody for the victims of hiroshima-krzysztof penderecki ... Ejlif

07-24-00 I strongly ditto tomwat's jazz selections and add theses: w ... Jorgearroyo@

07-24-00 Janacek's glagolitic mass (helps that i sang it once, so kno ... Tacs

07-25-00: Jnella
I'll include Devorak: Symphony No. 9, Holst: The Planets, Mussorsky:Pictures at an Exhibition and Jenkins: Diamond Music. These discs have alot I'll love to the day I die.
Jnella (Answers | This Thread)

07-25-00 ...also bruckner 4th "romantic"... Eldragon

07-25-00 Jimmy rowles' "the peacocks", on the bill evans tr ... Richardmonk

07-25-00 Tubegroover, may i also suggest mahler 2 final movement, th ... Megasam

07-26-00 My votes are for itzak perlman's "remembrances" an ... Issabre

07-27-00 All of the above are indisputably wonderful pieces, though i ... Marlec@

07-28-00 Mozart need i say more? Mitch

07-29-00 Brahms 4th symphony (second movement); rachmaninoff's 2nd s ... Opus88

07-29-00 For those interested rachmaninov's 2nd symphony (2nd movemen ... Tubegroover

07-29-00 Wrong on 2 counts on that last post. the eric carmen song is ... Tubegroover

07-30-00 To tubegroover: you are right on the rach. 2nd---it's the ... Opus88

07-30-00 The 3rd movement of beethoven's 9th symphony and the slow mo ... Dacostab

07-31-00 Soundtrack of "cinema paradiso," beethoven's 6th, ... Cody

07-31-00 Three more for an encore, .........puccini "o mio babbi ... Megasam

07-31-00 Aphex twin's "selected ambeint works volume ii" c ... Ohlala

07-31-00 Aphex twin's "selected ambeint works volume ii" c ... Ohlala

08-01-00 The most achingly beautiful music: the 1st movement of schu ... Skibetty@

08-02-00 It is awesome to see aphex twin mentioned twice here.psilona ... Osclib

08-03-00 Tubegroover, re: eric carmen's borrowing from rachmaninoff, ... Hcfolm

08-03-00 Hcfolm: unfortunately in carmen's case, it's just the oppos ... Timwat

08-04-00 Thanks hcfolm & timwat i was always curious about those det ... Tubegroover

08-04-00 This was definitely from his 1st solo album. as a matter of ... Tubegroover

08-04-00 I was referring to carmen's "all by myself" (on th ... Timwat

08-04-00 Don't forget to include dvorak's cello concerto. i particula ... Kleiman421

08-05-00 Three more... coil's black light district "refusal of l ... Ejlif

08-05-00 Ejlif interesting choices, 99.9% of people here don't know w ... Megasam

08-14-00 Please don't miss wagner's "prelude to act 1" of b ... Danvetc

08-17-00 I made a post early in this thread, and it's been very inter ... Sdcampbell

08-17-00 Sdcampbell just listened last night to "the king of pe ... Tubegroover

08-17-00 It's nice to see a thread that is so informative and free of ... Khrys

08-17-00 Something i found with the help of npr (all things considere ... Cornfedboy

08-18-00 The more i think about this, the more i recall of music that ... Sdcampbell

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