hauntingly beautiful music

[badger]

There are certain songs that really move you emotionally. There have been a couple in my life that I've found to be incredibly moving to me. I want to add more to my list, what are your favourite songs that move you?

Some of mine from past and present (and yes, some are corny!!), all can be found on youtube:

Carla Etude - Elton John (I used to listen to this on continuous loop for hours when in school and I wrote my best papers doing so)

Requiem - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Summer - Antonio Vivaldi

Every Day - Carly Commando

Like the Sun and Dentro Me - Ryandan

Dream - Priscilla Ahn (this makes me think of my dog and makes me cry, but it's also very beautiful to me)

[crazycanuck]

I'll have to find some of them~

There are two songs that I can't listen to nor watch the videos:

"The Dance" Garth Brooks (great song just i cry everytime i hear it, the video's cool though)

" These Are The Days of our lives" Queen (It's the last video Freddie ever made & the sight of him so frail is hard to watch)

[Biciclista]

Strauss Horn concertos

Niel Gow's laments (fiddle tunes)

Pavane for a dead princess by Ravel (I like it on french horn)

[salsabike]

Bach's cello suites

[Biciclista]

Bach's cello suites

oh yeah!

[NbyNW]

Meditation de Thais by Massenet

It was performed at a memorial service for a friend. Very moving, and I can't hear it without also thinking of him and his family.

[jobob]

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

[uforgot]

Strauss Horn concertos

Niel Gow's laments (fiddle tunes)

Pavane for a dead princess by Ravel (I like it on french horn)

A French Horn that is played well is certainly a beautiful instrument!

[OakLeaf]

yeah, like Mr. S., "hauntingly beautiful" music isn't what really moves me emotionally. I tend to go for the big Romantic pieces - things like Liszt's Les Preludes or First Piano Concerto, any Brahms symphony, that sort of thing.

Popular songs that I can't actually listen to without crying are ones that trigger the old feelings of loss and rootlessness from my childhood - Dixie Chicks' "A Home," the video of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," ekoostik hookah's "Ohio Grown" especially when I've been away for a while (and in spite of its goofy bridge).

[KathiCville]

Meditation de Thais by Massenet and Bach's partitas for cello, both mentioned above.

Plus Arvo Part's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. The first time I heard it I was driving and had to pull over to the side of the road to listen. I wish I could find that particular recording, because the tolling bells were richer than the ones on Part's Sanctuary.

The main theme to the film Schindler's List, composed by John Williams. Always brings tears.

The boys choir Libera---"Always With You" from their album Angel Voices. Other pieces on the same CD.

Also the theme from the French film "Veronique, Veronique."

[uforgot]

I consider this beautiful, but not hauntingly so...before my math/physics teacher life I was a band director. In college we had to pick a symphony to analyze, so I picked someone I wasn't familiar with, Prokofiev. A blind date but a successful marriage since! I love his music, especially Symphony No. 1. (Classical symphony). I've also tried to talk many a bride into walking down the aisle to Mussorgsky's Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. It sends chills down my spine. I only succeeded once and it was beautiful! My niece's wedding and I arranged the piece. Started with accoustic guitar and flute for the bridesmaids (It was outdoors and I had to work with what her friends could play) and when Anna appeared, heavy organ. Brought tears to my eyes but I didn't miss a note! (I played the organ) Everyone loved it.

[beccaB]

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!

[tulip]

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

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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.

[SadieKate]

I love early music--Renaissance and Baroque

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