When music becomes to much (emotionally that is)

[ngibbs]

Just changing tack slightly. What the most beautiful piece of music to you? The happiest piece of music ? :bounce: The saddest piece of music ? For me the most beautiful is The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. Just having a little think on the other two........ :?

Beauty - Victoria "Requiem" (Tallis Scholars on Gimell)

Happy - Beethoven 7th Symphony (Wagner called it "the apotheosis of the dance")

Sad - La Traviata as above

Chris

PS Having said that I think the Bartok 3rd Piano Concerto says more about the mid-20th century than any other piece of music and is beautiful, happy and sad which relects that period of history.

Good call!

 

[davedotco]

Just changing tack slightly. What the most beautiful piece of music to you? The happiest piece of music ? :bounce: The saddest piece of music ? For me the most beautiful is The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. Just having a little think on the other two........ :?

Just listened to Nigel Bl**dy Kennedy play this on tonights Prom.

Given that I can't usually stand the fellow I was very impressed, way over the top on the coda, but d*mn good.

 

[matthewpiano]

Just changing tack slightly. What the most beautiful piece of music to you? The happiest piece of music ? :bounce: The saddest piece of music ? For me the most beautiful is The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. Just having a little think on the other two........ :?

Just listened to Nigel Bl**dy Kennedy play this on tonights Prom.

Given that I can't usually stand the fellow I was very impressed, way over the top on the coda, but d*mn good.

Yes, his 'Lark...' was beautiful tonight. However, he showed his musically vulgar side again in the second half.

 

[davedotco]

Just changing tack slightly. What the most beautiful piece of music to you? The happiest piece of music ? :bounce: The saddest piece of music ? For me the most beautiful is The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. Just having a little think on the other two........ :?

Just listened to Nigel Bl**dy Kennedy play this on tonights Prom.

Given that I can't usually stand the fellow I was very impressed, way over the top on the coda, but d*mn good.

Yes, his 'Lark...' was beautiful tonight. However, he showed his musically vulgar side again in the second half.

To be honest, that was the first time I have properly listened to the guy in about 10 or 15 years, his bl**dy awful Quattro Formaggi really did it for me and I have avoided him like the plague.

There are times when, for me, only Elgar and Vaughan-Williams will do, Kennedy was exceptional tonight, maybe it was the occasion but it did bring rather more than just a tear to the eye.

Mathew, I don't do the second half, what did he get up to?

 

[matthewpiano]

A lot of his foot stamping and shouting, with lots of improvised references to various musical styles within the context of Monti's Csardas. Pretty horrific actually.

Complete agree about his 'Lark...' though. It was beautiful.

 

[Covenanter]

A lot of his foot stamping and shouting, with lots of improvised references to various musical styles within the context of Monti's Csardas. Pretty horrific actually.

Complete agree about his 'Lark...' though. It was beautiful.

I didn't hear it but his previous recordings have put me off him. Such a talent wasted IMO ...

Chris

 

[Sospri]

One of the most beatutful or sad short pieces for me is

Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for piano and strings.....................

 

[busb]

The decency or otherwise doesn't effect how many tears I shed but I obviously prefer to listen to a good system or phones.
I was listening to "Time of your Life" by Paul Oakenfold on Bunkka yesterday morning which I love but it has an emotional effect on my that's not entirely comfortable but difficult to pin down - regret is the closest I can get to.
As for sadness, Taverner's Innocence (can remember exactly which piece).
Music from Classical through to Electronica often really excites the hell out of me, especially low frequencies - I'm a bass junky that only a good stereo gives! I probably annoy other people at classical concerts because I find it very hard to keep still.
It's not the lyrics necessarily. Back in July, a very, very good friend died from a heart attack in the night. I knew this guy since the seventies so we shared a lot of musical experiences together. The loss is even more painful when listening to music we shared.
As for watching films... I get dehydrated!

 

[Electro]

Cyril Scott: Lotus Land op. 47 no. 1 does it for me . This performance has me tingling as I type.

Edward Cohen, piano Recorded live at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Concert Hall.

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

 

[El Hefe]

Strange question, but have you ever been listing to music on a decent hi-fi and either because it reminds you of something or because the singer has such strong emotion comming accross you have to stop listing for a while ?

If I do get into an emotional state, I would usually continue listening to that song rather than stopping.

Especially it involves memories of my late parents...

 

[davedotco]

Enough with all this 'deep and meaningful' stuff.

I have a version of "love will tear us apart", live at Goldsmiths college (I think) that causes me to punch the air with joy when ever it comes around on my gym playlist.

Joy Division might have a certain reputation, but I have always found their live performances strangely uplifting.

Edit for punctuation.

 

[The_Lhc]

A lot of his foot stamping and shouting, with lots of improvised references to various musical styles within the context of Monti's Csardas. Pretty horrific actually.

Complete agree about his 'Lark...' though. It was beautiful.

You bunch of ******* snobs, it's the last night, it's supposed to be fun! I laughed like a drain when he threw the riff from Kashmir in there but then I ain't sophistimacated like wot you are...

 

[Dougal1331]

Christina Aguilera's Hurt, and Leona Lewis' cover of Run by Snow Patrol are the main two for me.

Aerosmith's Dream On can get me on a bad day...

 

[davedotco]

A lot of his foot stamping and shouting, with lots of improvised references to various musical styles within the context of Monti's Csardas. Pretty horrific actually.

Complete agree about his 'Lark...' though. It was beautiful.

You bunch of ******* snobs, it's the last night, it's supposed to be fun! I laughed like a drain when he threw the riff from Kashmir in there but then I ain't sophistimacated like wot you are...

Whilst I agree with you in a sense, as a regular Promenader in times past I find the current style to be over the top and a parody of what was once a hugely enjoyable occasion.

I'm all for having a good time and maybe it is an age thing, but I find the current levels of audience interaction crass and the incessent bobbing up and down to be laughable, not in a good way.

 

[The_Lhc]

A lot of his foot stamping and shouting, with lots of improvised references to various musical styles within the context of Monti's Csardas. Pretty horrific actually.

Complete agree about his 'Lark...' though. It was beautiful.

You bunch of ******* snobs, it's the last night, it's supposed to be fun! I laughed like a drain when he threw the riff from Kashmir in there but then I ain't sophistimacated like wot you are...

Whilst I agree with you in a sense, as a regular Promenader in times past I find the current style to be over the top and a parody of what was once a hugely enjoyable occasion.

I'm all for having a good time and maybe it is an age thing, but I find the current levels of audience interaction crass and the incessent bobbing up and down to be laughable, not in a good way.

Don't go to the last night then, it's on for a couple of months, I'm see another prom instead. Anyway they've been doing all that stuff for as long as I can remember watching it. It's all a little hurrah for Henry for me but I don't begrudge the middle classes their enjoyment.

 

[davedotco]

Don't go to the last night then, it's on for a couple of months, I'm see another prom instead. Anyway they've been doing all that stuff for as long as I can remember watching it. It's all a little hurrah for Henry for me but I don't begrudge the middle classes their enjoyment.

Which is exactly what I do. I used to go regularly, starting back in the early 70's and although noisy, the last night was always good fun and in my view less crass than it is now.

As I said, it maybe an age thing, it is the crowd reaction I do not like so I avoid it, no problem. I do not recall saying that others should not, just that I no longer enjoy it.

That said, I have not been to a last night in something like 30 years, maybe it is better in person than on TV or radio.

 

[The_Lhc]

I will admit, the party poppers get on my tits...

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I guess most songs that move us emotionally are ones that remind us of a certain time, or of certain people, so I won't bother with those, as some are truly awful.

So songs that have an emotional impact without that personal relationship are a little thinner on the ground. OK, these.

Lamb - Gorecki

Brian Eno - An Ending (ascent)

Flaming Lips - Do You Realize

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman

I'm sure there are more, but they are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

 

[The_Lhc]

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman

Oh yeah, the "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time" line kicks me in the guts every time. Not as much as when people spell Wichita wrong though...

People will laugh but there are any number of Bjork tracks that get me going, highly emotional singer in a very different sense to how people usually use that term to describe singists.

 

[BigH]

Not generally a fan of duets but one that does get me is Love Hurts by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman

Oh yeah, the "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time" line kicks me in the guts every time. Not as much as when people spell Wichita wrong though...

People will laugh but there are any number of Bjork tracks that get me going, highly emotional singer in a very different sense to how people usually use that term to describe singists.

I thought I should check the spelling before writing it, but I couldn't be bothered, and as you were online, I knew you'd correct my mistake for me if I had made one.

Thank you The_Lhc.

It's a tune though, however you spell it.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I guess most songs that move us emotionally are ones that remind us of a certain time, or of certain people, so I won't bother with those, as some are truly awful.

So songs that have an emotional impact without that personal relationship are a little thinner on the ground. OK, these.

Lamb - Gorecki

Brian Eno - An Ending (ascent)

Flaming Lips - Do You Realize

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman

I'm sure there are more, but they are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren

 

[davedotco]

This thread is straying very close to country music here, I am not sure that is allowed.

GP was one of those rare singers who could, take a sugary, sentimental, quite awful country and western song, sing it absolutely 'dead straight' and make it sound absolutely wonderful. A rare talent indeed.

Whenever I was in California (not for some years now), if I had a car I would try and take a drive into the Joshua Tree (National Monument) reserve, i can be a bit sentimental sometimes.

 

[Covenanter]

I was lucky enough to be have the opportunity to drive Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles a few years ago and I listened to a lot of country music en route as particularly in the mid-West that's what the radio stations play. I can't say that I grew to love it but I did grow to appreciate the genre and to understand that it has its merits.

Chris

 

[davedotco]

I was lucky enough to be have the opportunity to drive Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles a few years ago and I listened to a lot of country music en route as particularly in the mid-West that's what the radio stations play. I can't say that I grew to love it but I did grow to appreciate the genre and to understand that it has its merits.

Chris

Only driven bits of this road, no further East than the New Mexico state line, must have been fun.

Country music is truly huge in the US and like any mass market musical genre it obeys the 80% - 20% rule.

I originally came to country through the country rock movement of the late 60s early 70s. At that time rock music was very heavily influenced by the folk music of black america, much less so than the folk music of white america, though the influence was quite clear on some bands.

If you are interested and are unfamiliar with them try early recordings by The Band, "Big Pink", "The Band", and of course the The Byrds tour de force, "Sweethearts of the Rodeo". I have plenty of more up to date examples should you, or anyone, be at all interested.

Edited for spelling.