Most achingly-beautiful music

Ultimately, we listen to music to be moved, for example, to be elated, exulted, calmed or pained. Which are the 3 most affecting pieces of music do you find the most affecting?

hungryear07-24-2000 2:12am

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jimmdavis Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 63 posts 11-01-2005 at 03:07am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Dvorak: New World Symphony; Wilco: damn-near all of it
spurzheim Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21 posts 11-05-2005 at 02:35am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Morten Lauridsen - "O nata lux" and "O Magnum Mysterium" (choral music)
siegfried Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15 posts 12-01-2005 at 04:32pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I'd say the second movement of Bruckner 7th. Or maybe the adagio of the 9th.
todds7 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 18 posts 12-10-2005 at 03:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio for Strings -- and half a jillion others.
mrmitch Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 359 posts 12-31-2005 at 09:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Barber's "Adagio for Strings", Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up", Moody Blue's "Driftwood", and sorry for one extra, but Steeleye Span's "Gaudete".

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