Music that screws you up ...

[Phil Pascoe]

Dino Soldo's clarinet solo on Leonard Cohen's Gypsy wife makes the hair on my arms stand on end every time without fail. The flute solo from Gluck's Orpheo et Euridice makes me cry without fail because it was played at my daughter's funeral. The adagio from Beethoven's 9th - I cried alone 408 times between my daughter's death and my son's birth listening to that. Toccata and fugue in D minor - the first LP I bought at 12 y. o. - still stops me in my tracks. Anyone who loves Bach should listen to "Sea of Solaris" by Isao Tomita. If I control when I die, that's going to be the music I fade away listening to.
:ho2 :ho2 :ho2
Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits.

 

[AJB Temple]

good post.

 

[Graham Orm]

Adagio for strings by Samuel Barber does it to me every time. I'll be looking yours up Phil.

Oh and Merry Christmas by Slade. :ho2

 

[Benchwayze]

Mahler. The Adagietto from his 5th Symphony (Used in the film; from 'Death in Venice' ) does it for me. Relaxing dovetailing music!

If you really don't know it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Les39aIKbzE
Be my guest.

 

[davin]

Beethovens 7th. Sibelius Finlandia suite and In search of space by Hawkwind

 

[Droogs]

I love listening to Isao Tomita, a true visionary in electronic music. It was A Sea named Solaris that brought him to my attention when the great late Carl Sagan used it in the TV series Cosmos. i also really enjoy his version of Mussorsgky's Pictures at an Exibhition.

 

[Racers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul92QRzInpg

Brilliant version that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when the soprano comes in.

Pete

 

[MIGNAL]

So many. . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCSQd8Nx4mI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvRqBGJw9I

And don't forget our Ronnie from Derbyshire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XgbIhlOvk

And Tom,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdiM8W324qQ

 

[n0legs]

Calon lan, preferably in Welsh but in English is fine with me.Gets me every time. Our own Miss Jenkins does a lovely job of it.
Brian Eno, An Ending. I don't get why, but it stops me dead.
Johnny Cash covering NIN's Hurt, that's another one.

 

[Robbo3]

@ Phil - Thank you for the education. Not heard of Isao Tomita before.
Thought from that first organ note that it was going to be another Phantom of the Opera - but I liked it.

If you like organ music then perhaps:
Widor's - Toccata.
Where the notes keep going down until you think they can't get any lower yet down they go again.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKejfYzB3ak

Saint-Saëns - Finale, Organ Symphony No.3
(couldn't find a decent version but I love the counting in this)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzCN83XLZco


@ Pete - love the Allegri 'Miserere Mei Deus'.
Is this the piece that the Vatican kept secret as it was considered too good for the common people?


@ Mignal - love The Sound of the Trumpet & Elizabethan Serenade.
Spiegel im Spiegel" (Arvo Pärt) / For Lhasa's Birthday is also new to me & I could grow to like it.
Not keen on Tom Waits though.


Some of my favourites :

Smetana - Vlatava/Die Moldau
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor. (Yes, the whole thing).
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfGDqXEFkE

- even the Morcambe & Wise version - where Eric plays all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTfejIbdAMI

Easter Hymn from Cavaleria Rusticana
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjhuGv-CTQM

Delibes - Flower Duet (as used in the British Airways advert)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcWq3D75Uw

Ungar - Ashokan Farewell (unfortunately not the Major John Perkins version)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBuky70rMg

Bruch - Adagio, Violin Concerto No.1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK3_K1C2lYc

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks, Robbo. I remember an elderly guy (now dead) telling me that he'd loved the Toccata from Widor's 5th ever since he he'd walked past a church in the middle of the war that had just had it's roof blown off, but the organist wouldn't stop playing - and that was the music.
Allegi's Miserere was ultimately heard and copied note for note by a certain W. A. Mozart, when it was made available to all and sundry.
There was a great version of Saint Saens 3rd Organ Syphony by Olivier Latry in Auckland Town Hall, but I think it's been taken down - I looked the other day to send to my sister, who's jafa.
Apparently Smetana was a nationalist and he objected to Die Moldau, being a German name. Beautiful.
(my daughter loves the Saint Saens - only because she's watched "Babe" about thirty times. :lol: Both of my children are as most children, musically - Philistines.)

 

[dickm]

What is it with Finlandial? Really gets to me, but AFAIK, there's no Finnish blood in the family.
The real lump in throat song for me is Eric Bogle's William McBride - greatest tribute to all those lives wasted in Flanders.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The Green Fields of France - one of clips showed a military gravestone which reminds me of the ones near me in a perfectly tended clearing in an overgrown church graveyard - nearly all unknown Kiwis, Ozzies, Canadians and Poles. (We're quite close to a wartime airfield.) Some one once said if you think music can't make you cry, go to the Menin Gate at 8.00pm and be proved wrong. It's curious I can listen to stuff I bought at 12 to 18 years old, some are my favourites to this day and some I some I think what on earth was I doing listening to it let alone buying it.
It must be Christmas - no one (as yet ) has come in with "blo0dy hell, that's awful!" for anyone's choices. :lol:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

N0legs - I watched the Cerys Matthews Calon Lan - in a way it was nicer (a lot gentler) than the Kathrine Jenkins one, though she hasn't the lungs.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I forgot "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka. Anna Netrebko could have me if she played her cards right.
And "These are the Days of Our Lives" Freddie Mercury.
J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - H. Otto is on YouTube - Bach might not have played this organ, but he was known to have played other Silbermann's.

 

[n0legs]

N0legs - I watched the Cerys Matthews Calon Lan - in a way it was nicer (a lot gentler) than the Kathrine Jenkins one, though she hasn't the lungs.

Aye fair play Cerys doesn't do a bad job of it, pleased you looked it up =D>

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thank you, n0legs - I'm not in the habit of looking up Welsh music, being a proper Celt.
(Unfortunately, Cornish music is dire )

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The Choral from the 1812.
I could go on for ever - it's my thread. :lol:

 

[StevieB]

My top 3 'music that moves me' pieces:

2nd movement of the Philip Glass Violin Concerto (ignore movements 1 and 3!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsioM3GaAAY

2nd Movement of the Beethoven Emperor Concerto (Piano concerto No 5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2fi3Tvhe0

Shostakovitch 2nd movement of his piano concerto No 2 - the phrasing towards the end of the piece in particular is sublime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMHjo7Jwhk


Steve

 

[Benchwayze]

Phil,


I like the 1812 myself, but I sometimes feel that it too goes on forever! :mrgreen:

Seriously, when my son and daughter were ankle-biters, they didn't like thunder and lightning. The 1812, at full belt, was the ideal thing to smother the storm!
They didn't seem to worry about the cannons mind! Fortunately for the neighbours we bought a detached house! :lol: