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Beautiful Music

ozguy said:
Without a doubt I would choose several of the great piano concerti. I am completely transported whenever I listen to them (usually when I'm home alone and can turn the volume up full bore!). My favourites would be ....
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Now I'm starting to feel foolish, because every time this topic comes up I shamelessly promote my favourite...

Although Grieg's and Ravel's are two of my favourites also (and I would add some Saint-Saens), for the real "extra smile and wow" for me, it is:

Chopin's E minor Piano Concerto

Followed closely by his F minor Piano Concerto.

I've cried/got goosebumps through each of them at some point...especially when it is played by Piotr Paleczny (my piano idol)....I can't believe it has taken me so long to attempt it myself. The 1st mov't of the E minor concerto is truly "wow"...

The next really great piece I can think of (that isn't a concerto) would be Chopin's Ballade no.4 in F minor. So much beauty and simultaneous complexity of composition, but simplicity of performance (hopefully anyway).
 
gsdx said:
The Largo from the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" with Dawn Upshow (by Henryk Gorecki).

It has to be the most hauntingly-beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
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Oooh! Good one. It is one of the most moving things I've ever heard.

The one thing that ALWAYS gets me is the "Ode to Joy" section from Beethovan's Ninth.
 
Well aren't we a top class line up of men! (*8*)

Some beautiful music here and I've just seen about another $2-250 worth of CD's I need to add to my collection!

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Wow, so many classical music fans. This is right up my alley! :D
These pieces I find particularly beautiful:

Beethoven's 6th - last movement (I'm obsessed with this piece at the moment)
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
The final scene in Strauss' Salome
A lot by Puccini
And almost anything by Bach.

There's a lot more, I just can't think of any right now.
 
A few more:


Beethoven's 7th -- second movement
John Adams' Nixon in China -- Act II ballet and finale
Brahms Requiem -- Denn wir hie haben keine bleibende Stadt
Faure Requiem -- Sanctus (and also Pie Jesu)
Chopin Piano Concerto #1 in e: 2nd Movement/Larghetto
Flying Dutchman -- Finale
Walkure -- Ein Schwert Verhiess mir der Vater (Act I)
Schoenberg -- Verklarte Nacht (Final Part)
Samuel Barber's "Nocturne" (especially Leontyne Price recording)
 
gsdx said:
The Largo from the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" with Dawn Upshow (by Henryk Gorecki).

It has to be the most hauntingly-beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
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I was going to mention this, but you beat me to it. But let me elaborate a little on it. It is Gorecki's Symphony #3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" - three movements for orchestra and solo soprano. I think I have every version that's ever been recorded, but Dawn Upshaw's version is THE BEST, the definitive version. I heard it one night about 10 years ago, in the middle of a sleepless night. I turned on my bed-side radio and heard the second movement. I listened till the end of the entire symphony and then called the radio station and asked the disc jockey what it was. He told me and I went out and bought it the next day.

This recording is what brought Dawn Upshaw to everyone's attention. And I think, probably Gorecki, as well...

The first movement, with the cellos and orchestra is featured in the film FEARLESS (with Jeff Bridges) during the slow-motion airplane crash scene.

Many times when I can't sleep, I will play this CD with my portable cd player and headphones. I find it so beautiful and calming to listen to.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorecki

http://www.amazon.com/Henryk-Gorecki-Symphony-Sorrowful-Songs/dp/B000005J1C

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw
 
I canNOT give just "ONE"!

OK, so here you have my TOP 10, like on the tonight show with Dave!

  1. Serge Prokofieff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - This is apparently the one everyone knows among Prokofieff's piano concertos. But really there's good reason, because this one gets under the skin and stays there from start to finish. And the third movement is the best part, which is rare. I first heard this on PBS. Go PBS!
  2. Serge Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 - No not the concerto, the sonata... Every recording I have of this piece mixes the two versions Rachmaninoff produced 17 years apart. You can find your own hybrid version, and I'm sure it will still be great. Third movement isn't as cool as the first two though.
  3. Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5 - I don't know about its claims to divinity, but it's joyously choppy.
  4. Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel - I never went to the Rothko Chapel while I was in Houston (I did see it in pictures), but I can only imagine that it is not as delicate on the senses as this awesome little piece commissioned to complement the chapel's interior visage. I knew Feldman was super after hearing Coptic Light but that piece kinda gives me nausea after a while.
  5. Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - Three poignant vignettes to capture the spirit of three shamelessly Romantic Bertrand poems. The poems are pretty lucky to have the music attached to them.
  6. Gabriel Faure: Elegie for Cello and Piano - It is so obvious what this piece is trying to do. But it does it well, and I still love it.
  7. Dmitri Kabalevsky: Piano Sonata Op. 45 - Dark and lucid and bitter and sweet. He gets my most underrated early 20th century Russian composer award.
  8. Serge Prokofieff: Piano Sonata No. 7 - Lingers in the air long after it's gone.
  9. Henryk Gorecki: Totus Tuus - The only choral piece on the list, and I dunno, it's always been a fave.
  10. Philip Glass: Echorus - Whenever the old funeral rolls around, I want them to play this at it.
I hope I did NOT disappoint you when I gave you so many I like; but a true lover of music canNOT trim down from ALL that's available.......

Cheers!(*8*) (*8*) :kiss: :kiss:
 
There's a bit of music from the Lois and Clark soundtrack, from the pilot, where Clark is talking to his dad about how much he wants to fit in and be normal. The music speaks of such longing, it actually moves me to tears every time I hear it. :cry:
 
I'd better add a few more favorites:

Symphonies 4,5,7,8 and 9 by Anton Bruckner
Any of the great Masses by Joseph Haydn
Any of the late symphonies by Haydn
Any of the late string quartets by Haydn (are we seeing a trend here...?)
String quintet C major by Schubert
Symphony no 9 in C ("The Great") by Schubert
Beethoven: all symphonies, concertos and chamber music
J. S. Bach: pretty much everything

and a few oddities:

"Krzesany" by Woijiech Kilar
Piano concerto by Carlos Surinach
Violin Concerto no 1 by Sergei Prokofiev
Passacaglia for organ by Diderik Buxtehude

Oh I could go on and on...

-T.
 
teadrinker said:
Violin Concerto no 1 by Sergei Prokofiev
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Sublime, especially the skittering harmonics at the end of the first and third movements. I once saw a famous violinist frantically tighten up the strings on his fiddle during the tutti in anticipation of that passage. I'm pretty sure I saw beads of sweat on his brow. :-({|=
 
How about Smetana's Moldau/Vltava? The final section gives me goosebumps as well when you can almost literally "see" the Vysehrad castle rise out of the water...

There's also a number of Mozart Piano Concertos I forgot about. My favourite being the "Jeune Homme" concerto, no.9 in E flat major and no.17 in G major (I like happy Mozart, lol).

I would like to say something of Brahms too, but I'm not sure what. His Hungarian Dances when played on the piano are particularily powerful (not sure why orchestrated versions aren't as powerful for me).
 
Jupiter from The Planets by Holst. One of the movements is used for "I vow to thee, my country."

Since we're all here, can anyone tell me who wrote the piece used for the tango scene in the restaurant in Scent of a Woman, and also its name? thanks


-d-
 
JumboJimmy said:
I find classical music to be kind of boring unless if they remix it.
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Ironically, when looking at the music itself, classical music (or serious music that includes Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, etc) is several orders of magnitude more interesting than pop (including rock and anything "popular").

I'm sure it's an acquired taste....I happen to have the opposite when it comes to classical ...most "classical remixes" for me are soooo boring... they're all synthetic, have no warmth in sound, beat the theme to death, etc. and most of the time it's just a way of playing the music without facing the difficulty in them...like this:


Why hasn't Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto been mentionned yet btw?

 
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