Music that is sad, yet beautiful at the same time. Hauntingly Beautiful (?)

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Haven't read through the thread, so these might have been mentioned:

Schubert: Piano Trio no.2. Especially the second movement. It's amazing. This is one of Schubert's last works, and he was dying from syphilis as he composed it. Listen to the whole, to how the gentle, sad melody slowly builds in intensity to a devastating climax, then dies down and ends as it begun. But beware - you WILL have this melody in your head forever after just one listen. The best recording I have found of this one is by La Gaia Scienza on a cd from Winter&Winter. It's expensive, but very worth it. The performance is great and very intense, and it has some of the best sound I have ever heard on a cd.

Hm, wanted to make a long list here, but just realized that nothing tops Schubert's 2nd piano trio for "hauntingly beautiful". There's place for a couple more, though:

Schubert again. His Fantasy for Two Pianos.

Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio. The first movement is just... incredible. And it's very long, so stay with it. Another melody you'll never forget. It has the same kind of very gradual build as Schubert's piano trio. I find this music almost painful to listen to, but it's very cathartic in the end. You need to listen to the second movement too to get the whole effect, of course.
 
John Tavener - Funeral Canticle (featured in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6JY6jgJfo (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PcMqSUpVy8&feature=related (part 2)

John Tavener - The Lamb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpVGBSS65o

John Coltrane - Naima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAq0XhXG8E&feature=related

Clint Mansell - Death is the Road to Awe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0NBPRMe2E

Elliott Smith - Between the Bars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qu5ZT8WrCg&feature=related

My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (and a lot of other songs by MBV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iT5EuTlHOM&feature=related

Slowdive - Alison (and generally a lot of other songs by Slowdive)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol787NjpBS4

Opeth - Benighted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIIGsf-i_g

Yoko Kanno - Adieu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XalMIYYgHt0&feature=related

Yoko Kanno - Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrmA-nZjTh8&feature=related

Sheik's Theme from Ocartina of Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yc7kp_ETGU

Yoko Shimomura - Dearly Beloved (from Kingdom Hearts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25QXnhVijQ

The piano adaptations of Nobuo Uematsu's music for Final Fantasy. Like, for example, "To Zanarkand" from Final Fantasy X.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgCrwvHPw-M
 
Amir0x said:
i always come into threads about a lot of classic music to try to locate this one classical music track I heard when I was a little kid. It was played during the ending of this really short astronomy daily that would air on PBS telling you about what planets and stars you could see in the sky during that time of year. And then later I encountered it while playing some shitty multi-puzzler named HoyleGames 2006 or something, but it didn't have the name of the classic track on it anywhere.

I always fail :(
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That's the show with Jack Horheimer or however you spelled his name. I have fond memories of that show and he used to sit on the rings of saturn while telling you about whatever meteor shower was coming up soon (normally the reason I watched it).

Anyways, I post virtually the same songs in most sad music threads, so here we go again:
Land Of Talk- It's Okay
This Bitter Earth/On The Nature of Daylight
Here's the original version of that song from which the vocals were taken from: Dinah Washington- This Bitter Earth I think it's hauntingly beautiful in its way, too.
Eric Whitacre- October

I've got more if you want to hear, but I hate posting long lists without saying much, so I'll keep it short for now.
 
PigSpeakers said:
That's the show with Jack Horheimer or however you spelled his name. I have fond memories of that show and he used to sit on the rings of saturn while telling you about whatever meteor shower was coming up soon (normally the reason I watched it).

Anyways, I post virtually the same songs in most sad music threads, so here we go again:
Land Of Talk- It's Okay
This Bitter Earth/On The Nature of Daylight
Here's the original version of that song from which the vocals were taken from: Dinah Washington- This Bitter Earth I think it's hauntingly beautiful in its way, too.
Eric Whitacre- October

I've got more if you want to hear, but I hate posting long lists without saying much, so I'll keep it short for now.
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dude was a champ.

what he wrote on his gravestone:

"Keep Looking Up" was my life's admonition;
I can do little else in my present position.

a champ.
 
Heh, I was up till 4 last night going through the thread. Listening to every song, then delving deeper into the artist.

Seems like my quest shall continue tonight also.

Amazing recommendations Gaf, keep them up. 'salute'
 
Great thread!

Minor contribution for now, but since playing MoH:Frontline a decade ago I can't think about the WW2 western front without thinking about this song. One of Michael Giacchino's best and definitely hauntingly beautiful.

Arnhem Knights
 
I'm going to post two Kraftwerk songs, both hauntingly beautiful;

First one is a journey on a train. I get so emotional when I listen to this one. The song is played with the passion of a billion supernovas. Headphones HIGHLY recommended. It has 4 stages;

1- The Bells of Time

2- The Journey

3- The Farewell

4- Chaos

'SnobFace'

(The song starts at 1:45)

Kraftwerk - Kling Klang


Kraftwerk - Franz Schubert / Endless Endless


The Trans-Europe Express has reached its last stop. And now the train must travel alone to its future, awaiting its future destiny.
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teruterubozu said:
I love Lisa Gerrard, but I can't stand that other dude's voice in DCD. It's unnecessary.
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....you are dead to me... 'runs'

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Yeah sorry about that, I know it's not a popular opinion among Dead Can Dance fans, but Brendan Perry's "bard-style" voice adds an unnecessary degree of pomposity to the music that just doesn't sit well with me. Some of the songs that he sings by himself are unbearable. I saw them live in the early 90s. It was a good show though.
 
teruterubozu said:
Yeah sorry about that, I know it's not a popular opinion among Dead Can Dance fans, but Brendan Perry's "bard-style" voice adds an unnecessary degree of pomposity to the music that just doesn't sit well with me. Some of the songs that he sings by himself are unbearable. I saw them live in the early 90s. It was a good show though.
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No need for apologies, my good sir. All is well, 'tis your opinion.

I was just taken back, since I have personally not met anyone who doesn't like his voice in DCD. Something it does get a little too much HHHHHHHRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, bu it works for me overall.

Also, you introduced me to Kate Bush. I can never hate you. I am forever in your debt.
 
Mahler's 9th symphony, 4th movement: Adagio, Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend (very slowly and held back). A beautiful slow movement. It's hard to describe the mood accurately, iirc, Bernstein thought it was about Mahler's own death and he might be right. The last note is marked "ersterbend", dying away. It's very long (this version runs for almost thirty minutes) and not exactly easy listening, you do need to listen to it a few times to understand it but it's so, so rewarding.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIwypCFayBQ&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNnfddxCcx8&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fu_iZwDNM
 
Kashiwa Daisuke - Stella

36 minutes of magnificence.

In the first few minutes of "Stella", Kashiwa Daisuke uses the sounds of running water as a sample interlaced with his omnipresent piano and strings. He takes that sound, however, and breaks it up so that the running water no longer runs and instead limps. Music often flows like running water, and with this sample, Daisuke lays out his musical philosophy immediately, showing that he will take the most flowing, beautiful music and chop it up as he pleases. If Daisuke's piano and strings represent a piece of glass, untouched and perfectly clear, then his samples and beats represent a huge sledgehammer with which he destroys the glass and laughs as the glass shatters and falls to the ground. His aim, so precise, causes the glass to fall into a perfect shape in its shattered form, much like Picasso's cubist paintings or Dali's melted clocks.

Each piece of glass, its own unique shape, holds inside its own musical motif. Yet as the shapes of glass all fit together, so do the motifs. In this, Daisuke creates organized chaos of epic proportions, perhaps the most epic the electronic world has seen.
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