I've recently re-discovered one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard. It made me cry and smile at the same time, and is without doubt, one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zJ0yVSSvE
I give this music to you, my online family, in the hope that it will do for you, what it does for me. It gives me hope and makes my soul fly!
My best to all of you and your friends and families.
Love and hugs from,.
Catherine Linda Michel
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Mean more
If you told us what it was. Not everybody can view utube.
Adiemus
That youtube link is pointing to the song "Adiemus"
M
Martina
Adiemus
I'm thinking about getting their first Album. Over at Amazon you can get a used copy like new with shipping within the USA for under $10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiemus
Kool sounds. Thanks for posting Cathy!
hugs!
grover
Adiemus by Enya
I prefer the original of Karl Jenkins piece with Miriam Stockley. However, its sub-title was, Songs of Sanctuary.
I think Karl Jenkins did four albums of Adiemus besides his 'Armed Man'.
Angharad.
Angharad
I've always thought that...
Gordon Lightfoot's song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald to be both haunting and emotional, doubly so, since it's a true story.
Beethoven's 7th inning stretch
I love this piece for pure emotion and haunting beauty. There are a dozen versions
of this movement on youtube, but I picked this one for its sound quality,
and for its languid pacing (it's about 90 seconds longer than usual):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5pH4GKYkI
If that version doesn't play (it just didn't for me) try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfNTO_o-3k
And here's a cute 2 minute version by a couple of enthusiastic amateurs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jcEdCMh8A
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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If we're getting into the sublime
I prefer the Beethoven 9th which I've heard live with Rattle conducting the CBSO orchestra and Chorus. I had to walk around for an hour afterwards, I was as high as a kite and couldn't drive. It was brilliant and for me the ultimate piece of music.
However, I can weep buckets during the Mozart clarinet concerto or his Requiem and my heart can soar like a lark, with Vaughan-Williams, Lark Ascending or his variations on a theme by Tallis.
Then I go and spoil my patina of culture by turning up the CD player for Led Zep or Hendrix guitar riff in Voodo Chile. I suppose I enjoy lots of music across a wide range of taste, from raucous rock, fiddling folk, jangly jazz, bruising blues and piddling pop. I cannot however, stand (c)rap which leaves me cold.
Angharad
Angharad
... and we are.
This is a bit of a cheat and not everyone approves of transposing a lied intended for a male singer with piano accompaniment but Bizets orchestration of Schubert's Erlkonig is stunning and Anne Sophie von Otter's is riveting. I just wish I could get it on CD/DVD. Even if you don't like classical music, give this one a try; it really is exciting, I think.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc
Geoff
YUP
It honks my horn almost as much as "We Will Rock You".
I have two other Enya CD's. Orinoco Flow is great when I am on a sail boat. Now being tied up by some big hunk is about as close as I'll get to all the rope on a sail boat. :)
Gwendolyn
I'm not nearly as bad as I wana be. :(
I agree with Angharad
I got Karl Jenkins' Adiemus album (with Requiem and The Armed Man) from Amazon. And Miriam Stockley has one heck of a voice.
Having said that, I play Enya 'Paint the Sky with Diamonds' a lot.
Susie
Sorry
None of that stuff is anywhere near as good as "The Great Gig In The Sky" by Pink Floyd.
KJT
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa - Sing, Sing, Sing
Jeanne and I used to play that LOUD with the windows open while drinking our orange juice in the 'hood. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
one... more... time...
Here's another Beethoven I love. Camper Van Beethoven.
Whoever compiled the still images was being more political
than I believe this gorgeous melody & bittersweet lyrics warrant
(yes they're semi-political, but Jesus!); but if you close
your eyes the guitars, pedal steel & violin are sublime...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60jNs-M6BrI
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
.