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@audio-b-dog

... something that lifts my spirit

i can almost understand why you favor the song . it has a certain mood perhaps induced by its slow tempo and the pleasant melody which seems to me to not quite emerge . his voice however i find a bit sharp and common . not quite Luciano Pavarotti particularly at 7:00 . i can not but wonder how the song would fare in the hands of say Cat Stevens the younger . as for lifting spirits Boogie Woogie All Day Long Baby

https://youtu.be/Rf9ZJdIDNiM

as for but one of my own uplifting Chicago 25 or 6 to 4

https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg

also covered amazingly by Leonid & Friends

!https://youtu.be/9_torOTK5qc

or perhaps Cat Stevens’ Mona Bone Jakon / Teaser and the Firecat / Tea for the Tillerman

cheers

Cat Stevens is hard to dislike...

 I like him all...

I will suggest to relax:

Cosmo Sheldrake...

A poet as Stevens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ruo7mI4sAA&list=RD8Ruo7mI4sAA&start_radio=1

@mahgister 

Music can be many things to different people. I don't think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that's all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it's different things for me at different times.

I got up very early this morning and played Puccini arias. Here is what I am listening to now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywEByqEVQRk&list=PLOJWuc3CN301JqbcCyHNPdvOSN0JkJ3f_

@mahgister 

Music can be many things to different people. I don’t think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that’s all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it’s different things for me at different times.

What you just said is common sense and self evident...

But if i come here  and recommend some music, i generally  use the music exemples that move me the most and what move men the most, are what transform them for other reason  than killing times with little pleasure or nostalgia..

I enjoy many thing for example i listen Bob Broockmeyer orchestra  just right now and in the last week...( i like some of his albums)

But it is not of great interest for most, save for me, my taste at the moment, it is some good big bang jazz music  thats all ...I did not feel the urge to communicate  at all cost that i listen Bob Broockmeyer especially ....Or Cosmo Sheldrake  i quoted above only to answer and made an echo for  Cat Stevens and welcoming a new participant in this thread...

 But Beethoven quatuor no 3 which i discovered not long ago that it evocate a fractals, this merit to be communicate to others because i was stunned by this listening and understanding i never enjoy before ..

is this makes me a "snob" ?

No, an attentive listener ... 

And many music pieces all along history awaken some spiritual insight in me which i could communicate to others..

Why i will not communicate about  the most erotic female singer that i ever listen to today ?

Because it has no interest for almost anyone...

I will prefer to describe my astonishment when i discovered Hildegard the Bingen a self made universal genius in music and other fields in the 12 th century ...It matter most for me in the long term than my lust for the most erotic singer i ever encounter...This encounter is anecdotal ... Bingen encounter  is life changing as the pianist Yudina was...

 Am i snob because of this preference for an order of priority?

/=

@mahgister 

I see no reason why you shouldn't mention Bob Brookmeyer. Somebody who has never heard of him might like him. I also listen to Dave Grusin. 

I did want to mention, though, that every now and then I have those elevated moments. Last night was one of them. I streamed an album of Horowitz playing Scriabin. I liked it and appreciated Horowitz's musical intelligence and ability. But I agree with you that the people you recommended had their own inner musical timing and also allowed the music to become ugly at times where it needed to be. I would say in this comparison we're making that Horowitz did not allow his music to become ugly enough. It is difficult for performers trained in the art polishing music into gleaming beauty to delve into the uglyness of composers like Scriabin or Schumann. 

So tell me again who are the two best pianists who play Scriabin. Thanks