Liebestod, and that music from Raging Bull...Please suggest other Music

[masmdu]

I don't know much about classical music or opera but I love the music from Raging Bull and the Liebstod Aria.

For some reason I can't get into classical/opera if there is singing...

Please suggest other pieces that are as stiring and beautiful as the two I've mentioned here.

Thanks Y'all!

[bif]

1. Samual Barber-Adagio for Strings

Georgeous piece of music--although it's been a bit overused in my opinion.

[Bertha Venation]

6. I second the Barber Adagio -- try to find it for CHORUS

it'll blow you away. The choral work is underused.

Just about anything by Barber will please you.

If you like choral music, check out "Lux Aeterna" by composer Morten Lauridsen, recorded by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Sublime.

[Xandor]

2. Ralph Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending

Beautiful, beautiful piece that evokes a feeling of, I dunno, bucolic English countryside scenes or something. I could listen over and over.

[Ilsa]

5. You beat me to this one.

I love Vaughan Williams.

[bif]

3. Albinoni

Can't remember the name of the piece. Someone help mne out here.

[Ilsa]

4. Mahler's

Ninth Symphony, last movement (can't remember the name of the movement);

Mahler's Fifth Symphony, I think it is the fifth movement, it is only about five minutes long. (Edit: Adagietto movement)

Jules Massenet's Meditation from the opera Thais (you know it already; slow violin solo with orchestra)

Resphigi's Pines of Rome, a tone poem, exquisite, especially the last movement (very powerful). Imagine the last movement, that you are lying on a pallett, two thousand years ago, just before sunrise, and you hear an army (legions) marching, but you aren't sure it's your army, then you realize it is your army coming home, over the hill, returned in victory.

Mascagni's Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, La Valse

Try Die Walkure' (The Ride of the Walkyries, music only, then try it with the voices. Imagine nine beautiful, statuesque women, none less than 5'10", singing so powerfully "Hoyo toy yo!") It will convert you!

[Xandor]

8. Daphnis and Chloe...

Yes indeed! Always sends me into another realm altogether.

[masmdu]

7. Great!...keep them coming...and Thanks.

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