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In the mood for something to really "hit" me. Something powerful yet also beautiful. Usually this would mean classical music IMO and classical is one of my favourite genres but I'm open to almost anything.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)so I'm going to have to find something else...
This has always been one of my favorites of Vangelis. It's tranquil, yet so lovely
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Just off the top of my head, here's some J.S. Bach: Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639), which some may recognise from the 1972 Tarkovski film Solaris
Whisp
(24,096 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)What can I say, I'm an Anglophile.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... and you have impeccable taste. In fact, one of those tunes plays on my phone whenever my wife rings me up.
As for moving music, my offering is from the unfairly maligned prog rock genre, a tiny bit more edgy than classical but packed with power and nuance nonetheless. Those who are impatient may just listen to my favorite guitar solo of all time, like nothing you have ever heard, starting at 2:55, preferably several times because you will not take it all in at once
Whisp
(24,096 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).. and my favorites of her work comes from her time with Dead Can Dance. Anyone not familiar with them should certainly go to youtube and give them a listen, you may hate them but if you love them you will REALLY love them.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Just fantastic stuff.
Before the internet I doubt I would even know about them. There were a couple years in the early nineties where I discovered so much wonderful music I would Never hear on the radio through friends on bulletin boards and such. Enigma was another treasure that I love to this day - the first album. Never tire of some.
bif
(22,708 posts)Including This Mortal Coil.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)i'm putting a space between you and tube because loading is getting prob.
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)Annie Haslam could make an album of singing the white pages and I'd buy it.
Beauty, to me, can also lie in near total discord. This song is one of the most jarring musical portraits of a mind in complete disintegration and grief I have ever heard.
I love the piano work in this ELP classic.
Yes produced one of their best songs ever in 1994.
And there you go with only a tiny fraction of the music which just touches me right down to the core.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)For something longer, one of the Requiems like Berlioz or Faure.
Initech
(100,079 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)The 3rd movement is also very moving and powerful
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Soylent Brice
(8,308 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)My favourite DCD track - The Host of Seraphim
tblue
(16,350 posts)End Titles from the soundtrack of The Joy Luck Club. Always makes me want to cry.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)I'd almost forgotten how wonderful Rachel's music can be.
This is just wonderful.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).. a favorite of mine, perhaps trite and common but moving as well.
on edit: Please don't judge the piece on this performance, I have heard many better!
Paulie
(8,462 posts)If you have never experienced a drum corps show live, you should really try it. Imagine being so surrounded with sound your body vibrates.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)It's rather amazing, I think
progressoid
(49,991 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)here is my own contribution.
I think it's powerful.
and moving.
And how could Carlos Santana's guitar not be beautiful...
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Same for this one, which really should be heard through headphones...
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)For shear message, and I cry every time...
More current but just enjoyable, moving, and to me powerful...
Giving this one a graphic warning due to one scene.
bif
(22,708 posts)If this doesn't bring a tear to your eyes, you don't have a soul.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)
one of the most beautiful and powerful cries of love I know.
Bach's Air On The G String by Sarah Chang, the piece that Procol Harum said inspired Whiter Shade of Pale.
And again American violinist virtuoso Sarah Chang (appointed Special State Department Cultural Envoy by President Obama) playing Meditation by Massenet, with Placido Domingo conducting.
John Coltrane playing "Naima", his love song to his wife.
Jimi Hendrix, "Angel", a love song to his mother who died when he was young and whose death caused him deep pain and loss throughout his young life.
And I always find the words, music, and performance of this tune deeply touching.
cali
(114,904 posts)Ray LaMontagne, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, Alan Toussaint performing The Weight. So much talent, so moving with Levon at the end of his life, beaming.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I get chills when I listen to this --
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Tears of pure screaming terror.
I have nightmares of this guy following me in that relentessly leisurely fashion, strolling along, singing his happily insane murderer's death song, all the while carrying a bloody two-headed axe in his hands.
And I just. cannot. outrun him.
The Horror.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)like in a sequel to that Twilight Zone episode "The Dummy" where Cliff Robertson's dummy becomes life-sized and takes over the act.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)He has an incredible voice. They could use this as torture.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I don't know who does it ? Bruce Cobern? hmmm?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)A Youtube comment: "You know something's good when it's over 200 years old and it still has a million views on youtube."
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Sunlei
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Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Happier version: