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One Favourite piece of Music?

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mrsmopp Sun 24-Jul-16 09:36:13

Ravel's Bolero.

What's yours?

deMichael Tue 02-Aug-16 16:22:08

What more can a man tell his wife.........

... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDWayLiOEE

TriciaF Tue 02-Aug-16 15:35:23

Jazz - I forgot this one. Wynton Marsalis playing Cornet Chop Suey. Always livens me up when feeling a bit low:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1UC-vCUZY

gettingonabit Tue 02-Aug-16 14:49:10

It's impossible to pick just one piece!

A pp has just reminded me about Barber's Adagio. It used to come on Classic FM when dd was a baby. I used to play it to send her to sleep didn't work, alas.

I don't think anyone's mentioned any jazz yet, so I'm going to go for Don't Know Why by Norah Jones, Feelin' Good by Nina Simone and So What by Miles Davis.

Neversaydie Tue 02-Aug-16 13:27:53

The Song of the Children of Israel (Verdi,Nabucco)Sang it in a massed choir festival at school(an amazing experience)and heard the opera in Vienna with DH
Canon Lan and Cwn Rhondda (sung at my wedding, my childrens' blessings and the funerals of my DPs and my DB)
And I would like to 'go out'with the Bruch violin concerto playing .It is so sensual .

janeainsworth Tue 02-Aug-16 00:37:11

Can't possibly choose a favourite!
I love many of the ones already mentioned, but one that hasn't been - Benjamin Britten, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell.

My choice of something lighter would be La Mer, by Charles Trenet.

Pop music - Rod Stewart, Mama you been on my Mind.

Dotsmam Mon 01-Aug-16 22:51:40

It's All Right Now - by Free. I want it played at my funeral (along with Morning has Broken)

Humbertbear Tue 26-Jul-16 22:27:11

Impossible to choose one. Bach's double violin concerto and Danny and the Juniors 'At the Hop'.
What a wonderful playlist we are compiling here. Can Gransnet produce the CD?

Greyduster Tue 26-Jul-16 19:37:01

I have been struggling with that piece of Mozart on the piano, and though it is not yet spot on (by any means) I am almost at the stage where it doesn't sound mangled anymore! It is a beautiful piece.

Badenkate Tue 26-Jul-16 18:37:40

If I really want to feel mournful, then Barber's Adagio will do it every time.

Nelliemoser Tue 26-Jul-16 13:57:12

Too many for me as well but this short Mozart one has a lovely melody.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFUw9HvRf8
It is also relatively easy to sing compared with many another choral work.

The dreadful Christmas cards spoil the visual effects though.

Indinana Tue 26-Jul-16 13:15:33

And, oh yes Daddima Mozart's Lacrimosa!

Indinana Tue 26-Jul-16 13:12:23

So, so many! Among my favourites are:
-Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
-Samuel Barber's Agnes Dei (Choral version of Adagio for Strings)
-Ma Vlast by Smetana
-In the Arms of an Angel - Sarah McLachlan
-Adia by Sarah McLachlan
-There's a Light by Beth Nielsen Chapman
-Mollie's Song by Beverly Craven

Greyduster Tue 26-Jul-16 13:01:42

Anything by Fleetwood Mac smile.

Katek Tue 26-Jul-16 12:13:17

Today's choice. Offering Chant-Lama Gyurme. First heard on Something Understood with Mark Tully, so peaceful.

Daddima Tue 26-Jul-16 10:46:25

Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition
Lacrymosa from Mozart Requiem
Last movement of Beethoven 9

And many more...

Anniebach Tue 26-Jul-16 10:07:40

I did name my favourite but may I add one more on purely sentimental grounds

'SHE' Charles Aznavour. It was the last record my husband bought me before his death

Greyduster Tue 26-Jul-16 08:46:13

Oh Lord! I don't want to go out to that, NotTooOld! NOOOOOO!

merlotgran Mon 25-Jul-16 23:11:27

Angela Gheorghiu singing the Libera Me from Verdi's Requiem - the middle section.

Jalima Mon 25-Jul-16 23:06:28

Is it a piece of music per day?

Some days it is something happy, others nostalgic, or soaring and heavenly, perhaps melancholy depending on the mood I'm in.
Sometimes it's just a bit of rubbish which lingers as an earworm!

NotTooOld Mon 25-Jul-16 22:52:16

Greyduster and Elrel - I read that as Coronation Street.

Badenkate Mon 25-Jul-16 22:21:49

Come on Willow. I admitted I was a rock chick at heart!

fiorentina51 Mon 25-Jul-16 20:34:06

Too many favourites! Today I choose Shostakovich The Gadfly - Romance.

Willow500 Mon 25-Jul-16 20:27:57

Oh dear - best I don't put mine on grin

grannylyn65 Mon 25-Jul-16 20:24:44

Stansgran, love that song, always reminds me of my mum, who died aged 58☹️

Greyduster Mon 25-Jul-16 20:20:41

It is indeed, Hilda. It was one of the hymns at my d-i-l's funeral service - i don't know who chose it, not DS, but I think I was the only one outside the normal congregation of the church who was familiar with the tune. I was talking to the vicar afterwards and he was, if course, very familiar with the hymn, but didn't know the "Five Variants".