what songs / pieces of music literally take your breath away?

[charlie and algernon]

edit: heh, little trigger happy on the posting.

I'm listening to Nessun Dorma and my god, the final cresendo never fails to take my breath away and there's such a wash of joy at the end of the cresendo as the soloist wraps up.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Literally take my breath away? None I hope.

I like breathing and living.

Sorry. :P

[mix]

2. anything by Satie, full stop

:hi:

[BOSSHOG]

3. Indian Sunset by Elton John

Very powerful story (lyrics and music) about the death of Geronimo.

A couple of country songs:

- I'm tired of pretending I don't love you anymore - Travis Tritt
- One More Breath - Joe Diffie

[datasuspect]

4. a moving, stirring piece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4FVYuiWi8

[scheming daemons]

5. LOL... if it LITERALLY took my breath away, I'd be dead and unable to post an answer

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. The climax of The Grateful Dead's "Terrapin Station" n/t

[mix]

7. just drank a beer in Georgia called Terrapin Rye...

as good as the tune
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2372/5948/

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. .

:toast:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I'll have to try that...

if for no other reason than I like turtles. :toast:

[mix]

14. i never had had a "rye" beer before

http://www.terrapinbeer.com/
:toast:

:hi: turtle lover
http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1116804-14-baby-turtle.jpg

[mitchum]

48. Were you just in Athens?

It's brewed just a few blocks away from me

[mix]

55. no, Atlanta (which i love)

[mix]

9. Moonlight Sonata is another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Banop3IwU_Q&feature=fvw

[Strong Atheist]

10. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[Kali]

11. some Sufi devotional music really moves me

especially from North Africa and the Middle East.

[mix]

13. may i have some recommendations please ?

:hi:

[Kali]

23. Omar Faruk Tekbilek is probably easiest to find

there are lots of compilations - I especially like the music from Turkey (partly it is personal because I went there, also that is where it originated)

Mercan Dede from Turkey now living in Canada.

Dhafer Youssef and Anouar Brahem, Tunesia.

Ibn 'Arabí, Morroco.

Of course most famous, from Pakistan Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Has more of an Indian sound that is fascinating, but for me personally isn't as moving.

You can probably find stuff faster than me by just sampling off of Amazon. I rely a lot on a local radio program that covers the whole world so getting my fix of this particular genre is not as thorough as I might like! (you can read that as basically I don't know shit :rofl: )

[mix]

24. thank you much

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Great piece...

:hi:

[elleng]

61. HEY OK, Ocelot!

:hi:

[graywarrior]

16. This blows my fucking mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-ZmAYLeB8

Play it LOUD!!!!

[mix]

17. thank you, i did not know her before

[graywarrior]

18. You're welcome

She's quite amazing.

[rug]

19. Panis Angelicus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7SieaeK93U&feature=related

[enigmatic]

20. "Monument"- The Sound

Adrian Boreland was a sadly underappreciated genius and although the LP "From The Lion's Mouth" is The Sound's masterpiece, "Monument" is their best recorded moment:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/07/monument-sound.html

[old mark]

21. A very different piece of music indeed - "The Stumble", by Freddie King,

the version done by the Blues Breakers about '65 with guitar by Eric Clapton. The guitar breaks are amazing.
He was playing an old Les Paul Model at the time.


mark

[mitchum]

58. A Les Paul through a Dallas Rangemaster...

and it is a great sound :)
Since I don't have a grand to drop on an original Rangemaster, I have to make do with an Analogman Beano Boost...which is a pretty wonderful box itself

[guitar man]

22. Something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsBe1B8jvSY

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Here's one of them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn5ken3RJBo
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

[charlie and algernon]

26. i LOVE that version

an incredibly moving piece of music

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Sends me to some other realm.

:hi:

[charlie and algernon]

57. it's hard to play ANYTHING after that song

there's almost no song in the world that sounds good after hearing this divine work.

[lunamagica]

28. Abbey Road, side B. /nt

[livetohike]

29. "Pali Gap" - Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatrtABXVm4

[RadiationTherapy]

50. South Saturn Delta is my favorite Hendrix album.

Tax Free is another rockin track from that album.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

31. "Hounds of Love" side B................

I still want to marry Kate Bush.

[dembotoz]

65. This still does it to me Wuthering Heights

you can't marry her, i saw her first

[TZ]

32. This gets overplayed in pop culture but it really is a striking piece

From "Carmina Burana"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhG-d_YnhhU

[sarge43]

42. True, but sometimes it works

I love how it's used in Excalibur -- Arthur and his knights riding out to their final battle as the land renews itself around them.

[Red State Rebel]

33. I was going to say Nessun Dorma too - love to blast it in the car!

[Xipe Totec]

34. Madredeus - Oh Sonho

You may need headphones to appreciate this; most standard speakers have a hard time reproducing a voice in such a high register.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMOF-LBEqL8

[Kali]

35. oh oh oh

just heard a cut by an artist that can send me - Al Di Meola

actually lots of many kinds of guitar work can do that.

[DevonRex]

36. "Since I've Been Loving You" live on "The Song Remains the Same" DVD.

That blues guitar is the best.

Led Zeppelin for those who don't know...

[Paladin]

37. Final Movement, Shostokovich's 5th Symphony

Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.....

[DarkTirade]

38. Nessun Dorma and the Flower Duet for vocal pieces,

and I've posted this one a few times, but it is without a doubt the most powerful piece I've ever heard... and had the fortune to play.

Shostakovic's 8th string quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1mz0QP2Qug (1st movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvTTfbpWjY (2nd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OtqABpuV-s (3rd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5qO8bqmQU (4th)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C8GguURkZY (5th)


It starts of fairly slowly, but take the time to listen to each movement in order.

[sarge43]

39. Allegri, Miserere, The Tallis Scholars

Part One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71jgMx0Mxc

Second that on Nessun Dorma

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

45. Oh, yeah. Love it.

They also do a phenomenal performance of Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in Alium. That's another one that gives me the chills.

[charlie and algernon]

56. beautiful!

the high soprano part in the chorus is angelic.

[JitterbugPerfume]

40. Nessun Dorma does it for me too

and Barcelona by Freddie Mercury or Russell Watson. I think I actually like the RW version more

[hippywife]

41. I cast another vote for Nessun Dorma.

With Pavarotti singing. I used it as my processional for my wedding, I love it that much.

[JitterbugPerfume]

43. NO one does it like Pavarotti

:hi:

[hippywife]

44. I concur.

:hi: :hug:

[grasswire]

46. Rhapsody In Blue

Of course. Played by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the original date. It is simply the finest American composition.

Second would be "An American Beauty" rag composed by Joseph Lamb in (IIRC) 1913.

[JitterbugPerfume]

53. the clarinet solo in the beginning

is just hauntingly beautiful

[EastTennesseeDem]

47. "The Moon and Antarctica" by Modest Mouse

The first two songs are very good, very friendly and upbeat alt-rock songs, and then it takes a gradual turn for the surreal, and it gets more and more and more surreal, and by the time "The Stars Are Projectors (the ninth track) is over, I feel like I've been chewed up and spit out into space. The lavishly produced, astonishing musicianship and the accompanying existential songwriting continues to lull me into a trance. And then the final song ("What People Are Made Of") comes roaring in, and it is such a raw, hard, ingenious piece of music ... it just makes the album that much better. My all time favorite album, and there is no close second.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5358-the-moon-antarctica/

[mitchum]

49. John Coltrane's "Psalm"...and I'm not a spiritual person at all

[melman]

51. You Will Be Loved Again

by Mary Margaret O'Hara

[Tikki]

52. Personal and life experience reasons..."Steppin' Out" ...by Joe Jackson..

always makes me cry...but not for sad reasons...not at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbj0w8iOeM
"Steppin' Out"....Joe Jackson

Tikki

[Kat45]

54. Jeff Beck - "Cause We've Ended As Lovers"

Gets me every time.

[RushIsRot]

59. Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat major, Op.29

[Saboburns]

60. Forever Young

Bob Dylan and The Band/Last Waltz

Tupelo Sugar/Van Morrison

[Art_from_Ark]

62. Beethoven's 9th Symphony

especially the choral finale

[anneboleyn]

63. "Eclipse" -- the finale of Pink Floyd's DSOM and Faure's Requiem

Both are absolutely gorgeous and profound pieces of music.

[stewartcolbert08]

64. Yes

Andrea Bocelli, Time to say goodbye! I love this song!