hauntingly beautiful music

The Nimrod variation from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations.
The music of Erik Satie.
Anything by Beethoven
Debussy
Brahms
Mahler
Faure Rquiem

Don't get me started!

Marche pour la érémonie des Turcs by Lully
Adagio for Strings, Barber
Miserere by Gregorio Allegri
Les Pleurs by Ste. Colombe.

I love early music--Renaissance and Baroque

I third Barber's Adagio for Strings....absolutely heartbreaking.
Pachelbel's Canon in D also, but in a less sad way.
I find Japanese bamboo flute music in particular to be hauntingly beautiful and very spiritual.

Medieval Gregorian chants are hauntingly beautiful- especially if performed in a cathedral with the appropriate echoes. I like The Anonymous Four...a quartet of women who perform Gregorian chants.

+1 to Renaissance music as well.

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I love early music--Renaissance and Baroque

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Me, too! I love Byrd's Fantasias for viols. One of the rare times I miss playing.

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Me, too! I love Byrd's Fantasias for viols. One of the rare times I miss playing.

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About six years ago, I devoted a year to playing nothing but the Bach cello suites. It got me playing again, after many years. Now I need to get back to it so I've taken out my cello and like a sad puppy, it's staring at me mournfully.

Hallelujah - k d lang's version
One of my favourite running songs - won't tell you how many time it repeats on my playlists!

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About six years ago, I devoted a year to playing nothing but the Bach cello suites. It got me playing again, after many years. Now I need to get back to it so I've taken out my cello and like a sad puppy, it's staring at me mournfully.

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I solved it by giving all my viols to my dad. :o

I just had to make choices since we don't have 40 hour days.

Bacchanale by Saint-Saens. I have played this in several different venues and ensembles, and each one holds so many memories for me. I love the music for what it is, but it's the memories that make it poignant.

I'm sure that there's others.....

hm, sounds like we have the makings of a TE orchestra here.

Most of the music mentioned above can be found on youtube, sometimes by long dead virtuoso musicians

Wow we have some talented people on here. I am tone deaf so I just appreciate those who can play. I cannot even keep a beat but I do love music.

Oh yeah, +1 on "The Living Years." When that song first came out I couldn't even listen to the radio while I was driving, in case it came on. And Sarah McLachlan's "Angel."

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I second Hallelujah. I saw him sing it in concert here in Oslo this summer, and I had goosebumps and chills the entire song.

I don't know what it's called, but that song with the refrain "You lift me up, so I can climb a mountain". The lyrics are cheesy, the boy band version is awful, but I heard a professional singer sing it solo at a church wedding a few years ago and just burst into tears.

Garden of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jerusalem sung by Jessye Norman.

Nothing compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.

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The song is You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban (one of my favorites)
I don't about haunting, but I do have some faves that move me to tears

With the exception of Masquerade (it's fun but it doesn't move me), anything from Phantom of the Opera (particularly Think of Me)

Love Me-Collin Raye (was on the radio the morning I found out my granddaddy died)

Amazing Grace, Victory in Jesus, On my way, on my own- Lynda Randle

It's only love, candle in the window- Linda Eder (I could listen that woman all day everyday)

And When She Danced- From "Stealing Home"

There is some classical music that I like but I don't know their names...humming them won't work I don't think.

Gary Jules - Mad World (the video is also really cool.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

(originally by Tears for Fears, but this version is good.)


Beck - Lost Cause (also a cool video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNcpuQePPA


Radiohead - High and Dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPDiEz-GcE


These songs all make me bawl like a baby.

there are so many different versions of hallelujah out there. If you go to youtube, there's one by 4 finalists of the Norwegian Pop Idol and that one's nice, too. John Cale also did a version.

Interesting thread.

Although, I now have Hallelujah running on an endless loop inside my head.

Could be worse I suppose. :cool: