hauntingly beautiful music

[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

[lph]

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.

[Mr. Bloom]

Haunting and beautiful: Barber's Adagio for Strings. I believe they used it as the theme for an intense war film (maybe "Full Metal Jacket"???).

I generally tend toward music that is emotionally moving in a happy way rather than a haunting one.

[GraysonKelly]

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.

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.