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I’ve been listening to my state’s local streaming internet broadcast for NPR’s classical music statation (you can find the stream here). Yesterday they played Lohengrin, as I type this, I’m listening to Leo Delibes: Lakme: Flower Duet. Sometimes life is really beautiful.
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You know what REALLY beautiful... Vangelis!
They have the most glorious, epic, and haunting music out there.
Some of my favorit are: soundtrack for "Cosmos", "Blade Runner", and the best one of all time is "Conquest of Paradise" which was used for the Olypics.
Now, I'm not much of a religious person anymore, but that song makes me feel such spiritual joy I just can't describe it.
Whenever I hear that I imagine the Silmarills being presented to the Valar and the Two Trees of Light rekindled!
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Does anyone here knows Loreena Mckennitt's music? She's a canadian singer (and harpist) whose voice is amazing. You can check some samples of her music at her personal site: www.quinlanroad.com.
Hope you enjoy it.
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I have two and my mom has two that I steal from time to time. I think we have all of them combined.
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MmM Lakme. You want to hear beautiful music? Try Yoko Kanno. She's got some songs that are possitively ethereal.
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I'm a big fan of Azam Ali - former singer of Vas. She's got an album called Portals of Grace that's all medieval tunes in the original languages - Galician, Breton, Latin, Arabic... it's fabulous stuff. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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Barbers Adagio for Strings does it for me every time.
Or anything by John Rutter who is a 20th century choral composer. Try "Open Thou Mine Eyes" or his 23rd Psalm. The words alone for open thou mine eys are beautiful "open thou mine eyes and I shall see/incline thy heart and I shall desire/ order my steps and I shall walk/ in the ways of thy commandments". I'm not christian so to me those words have as much resonance within the bounds of a relationship as much as between a person and their god.
Also becoming a huge fan of Allison Krauss. Check out a song of hers called "That Kind of Love"....beautifully crafted, sweet, with unexpected melodic turns.
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Probably not spelled right but one of her songs Bonnie Shons never fails to bring a tear to my eye and an ache in my heart...ok so maybe I can be a softie Lorenna McKennit that is to say
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I really love classical guitar, all by itself. Vivaldi's guitar concerto in D is the most beautiful piece of music ever written.
Unfortunately, I have a hard time finding it and the version I have I got from a flower shop and has nature noises in the background.
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I also have a great fondness for Lorena McKennit and Enya, although sadly, I can't stand Allison Kraus for some reason. I really wanted to after O Brother, but her music isn't really like that. There are some great spin-off cds, though (O Sister).
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I sang the Flower Duet acapella (sp?) with a friend for a music end-of-year project. It is indeed very beautiful, although we cheated and used the music...
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The opening notes to Bill Evans' piano solo in 'Flamenco Sketches' on Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue". The most beautiful 20 seconds of music ever.
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Does anyone else here find the Choral movement from Beethoven's 5th to be perversely unholy? Maybe Clockwork Orange has just ruined that piece for me...
EDIT: That, along with the Great Gates of Kiev from Mussorgsky's Pictures.
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In one of those 11 CD's for a penny deals I selected "Classical Barbra". It's actually really good.
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quote: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasia-Montagues and Capulets, Love Theme and Finale, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
I played that piece in orchestra and hated it. I think it was just because the bass part was annoying. It was all simple to the point of being boring, with the exception of like 25 measures which were near impossible.
I really like:
Bach unaccompanied cello suites, esp. when played by a bass player.
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat major
Most of the Beethoven Symphonies. Esp. Eroica.
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Hey Hobbes, I've performed at Carnegie Hall too!
And I love all music from Carmen, I definitely agree with that. I sang "Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante" with my voice teacher last year. It's Michaela's big aria. It was beautiful. And I've done more Bizet besides that... it's all great!
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Who is "La Gioconda" by? That's the Italian name for the Mona Lisa. Songs about art? Very cool. Almost as cool as "Pictures at an Exhibition."
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I had just read this post prior to driving home work. I turned on the radio and got to hear most of Shostakovich Festive Overture. I thought, "Hobbes is so right about the ability of music to brighten our lives."
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Dance of the Hours (by Amilcare Ponchielli). (Warning: long mp3, my recording is only the last few minutes, the whole wongs great but it's the end that most people would recognize. And this isn't that great a rendetion but ... well still good)
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hey Hobbes, I love that movement too! In fact, I adore that entire work. Which version of the symphonies do you have?
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