While Tchaikovsky"Andante Cantabile from Quartet Op. 11," brought me to tearsat the end of Loom, and still leaves me very wistful.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:37 (9 years ago) Permalink
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:08 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Prude (Prude), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink
some things that come to mind:
basically any & all Hildegard von Bingen
'Spem in Alium' by Tallis
Gregorio Allegri's 'Miserere'
Schnittke's "Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled With Grief" and his Piano Quintet & concerto grosso no. 3
Alla Pavlova, Symph No. 3
Sylvie Bodorová's 'Terezín Ghetto Requiem' for baritone & string quartet, Concerto dei fiori for violin & strings, & 'Hélios'
The Adagio of Schubert's Piano Trio, also his String Quintet
Leoš Janáček's solo piano works, particularly the last movement of 'In the mists' (1912) performed by Håkon Austbø. Also, same composer's 2nd String Quartet, 'Intimate Letters', is haunting and magical.
Darknesse visible for solo piano by Thomas Adès
A lot of Shostakovich, e.g., the 5th symph & the Piano Quintet in g-minor, Op 57 (1945) (iv) Intermezzo: Lento
Lili Boulanger, 'Pie Jesu' & 'Nocturne in F'
the Kyrie of 'Misa Criolla' by Ariel Ramirez
'Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé' by Ravel
'Rothko Chapel' & 'Coptic Light' by Morton Feldman
'Le baiser de l'enfant jésus' from Messiaen's Vingt Regards...
Some of Fanny Mendelssohn's songs, like 'Wenn Ich In Deine Augen Sehe'
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also a lot of vocal/choral music:
'Concerto to the memory of A.A. Yurlov' by Georgy Sviridov
Monteverdi's Madrigals
Symphony No.18 Op.138 by Mieczysław Weinberg
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa's 'Madrigali a Cinque Voci'
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not sure how this thread made it to the second post without a mention of Henyrk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", or for that matter Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". I know, no points for originality, but these are by now classics for introducing popular music listeners to composed/concert music.
― nori dusted (Sanpaku), Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh hell, I'll go all out pop and mention that Zbigniew Preisner's "Van den Budenmayer Concerto", written for Kieslowski's La double vie de Véronique (1991) is pretty amazing...
― nori dusted (Sanpaku), Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's because Górecki's symphony is hackneyed, dull, overrated and cheesy.
I love your other choices though. xp
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Allegri seconded, and since Preisner's been mentioned, this thread ought to include his Requiem For My Friend.
― Lostandfound, Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
Schönberg's Verklarte Nacht, the chamber version, preferably any recording from around the 50s or 60s. My favorite is the Hollywood Quartet's recording.
The late Beethoven string quartets
Shostakovich's string quartets, though the 8th & esp. 15th fit thread title most Peteris Vasks 'Musica Dolorosa' as well as his 4th string quartet
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 15 May 2010 19:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's because Górecki's symphony is hackneyed, dull, overrated and cheesy
No it isn't.
Also, Gavin Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic.
― anagram, Saturday, 15 May 2010 19:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
;)
OH FUCK
Giya Kancheli's 'Lament'!!!!
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 15 May 2010 20:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
And Part's Tabula Rasa too.
― anagram, Saturday, 15 May 2010 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Charles Tournemire's magnup opus for organ L'Orgue Mystique
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 01:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
magnum*
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 01:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
more
― ('_') (omar little), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Luigi Nono - "fragmente-stille" for String QuartetJean Sibelius - A Lonely Ski-TrailMorton Feldman - Madame Press Died Last Week at NinetyAlexander Scriabin - Preludes, Op. 74Witold Lutosławski - InterludeArnold Schoenberg - "Farben" from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
― third-strongest mole (corey), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
also Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question and the "Rockstrewn Hills" movement from the second orchestral set.
― third-strongest mole (corey), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― third-strongest mole (corey), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Were you able to find any of these, Omar?
― delicious demonym (corey), Saturday, 9 October 2010 13:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
good recommendations, based on my youtube listenings...i actually picked up a morton feldman album last week (guess which, lol) and it's pretty amazing. might make another classical run today.
― rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
John Ireland, 'Down by the Salley Gardens' sung by Janet Baker
― jeevves, Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
edit: I think the lyrics are by WB Yeats?
― jeevves, Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 June 2012 04:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
Always puts me in mind of Carpenter's music for Halloween:
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:41 (7 months ago) Permalink