The Most Beautiful Piece of Music

[UniqueScreenname]

Most beautiful in recent music:
Maybe this

Whoa...
Now that's a song.

I admittedly know very little about Radiohead and have spent very little time going through their music, but every time I find something of there's that I really like, it is just one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard. That song is included.

[mbrigdan]

I'd have to go withThe hazards of love 4 (The Drowned)
Bring me close to tears when I really listen to it.

[El Queso del Diablo]

Only the most heartrendingly, viscerally beautiful piece of music ever written, Sibelius' violin concerto in D minor, op. 47: http://youtu.be/3OlI0RLQJoU

[ArchaicHipster]

Jon Gomm - Passionflower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw

This guy is so amazingly talented - hands down the greatest and most inventive guitarist I've ever seen, and this piece is six minutes of sheer perfection. To me it encapsulates summer, but is still amazing even in this darker season.

[Darcy]

The Most Beautiful Piece of Music for me is from Cold Play Tracks. "Yellow" To me, it symbolizes the romantic type. It basically says that you would do anything for the one that you love. Every little, tiny thing that your lover does, however insignificant it may seem can actually mean a lot. Everything they do seems wonderful. The love it represents is that reach for the stars, talk all night, can never get enough of that person love. Stars are luminous, heavenly bodies that shine down on the world. When he says "look at the stars, look how they shine for you" it means even the stars to him shine down for that person. Yellow is commonly known as an optimistic, cheerful color. However, it is scientifically the most difficult color for the eye to take in.

Shivers to the bone!!

[rattusprat]

Can I get a left field suggestion in for The Pink Floyd Sound:

A Saucerful of Secrets - the title track from their second album.

If you start listening and think I'm having having a laugh, I'm probably referring more to part 4 - Celestial Voices - the lead in starting at approx 8:25 on the link above, but you should really listen through the whole song.

[Sgt.Artemis]

Ludovico Einaudi - "Divenire"

Discovered Ludovico Einaudi through an old frined of mine, and since then, my admiration for Einaudi's work has only increased. The emotion which he plays with is just breathtaking.

[jobriath]

Good news, I found it!

Imogen Heap will now play with harmony and discord for your entertainment.

I always make silly-looking conductory gestures when listening to this one. Can't help it. Anyone else?

[frogman]

Good news, I found it!

Imogen Heap will now play with harmony and discord for your entertainment.

I always make silly-looking conductory gestures when listening to this one. Can't help it. Anyone else?

That song makes me tear up every time I hear it. It's so emotionally moving.

[UniqueScreenname]

Good news, I found it!

Imogen Heap will now play with harmony and discord for your entertainment.

I always make silly-looking conductory gestures when listening to this one. Can't help it. Anyone else?

Now I feel dirty for liking "Whatcha Say" for the female voice.

[matt96]

I am not fully sure about what I would say, I've narrowed it down to 3-5 different similar ones, but I'd go with this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibfMFnZPeKE

[Black Dynamite]

Agalloch's the White EP is amazing to me.
Sowilo Rune

[Hyphe]

Two pages and still no Mogwai? Tut.

King's Meadow.

[cjmcjmcjmcjm]

Another Messiaen plug: the Quartet for the End of Time.

[SirMustapha]

Two pages and still no Mogwai? Tut.

King's Meadow.

What's your view on Thank You Space Captain? Personally, I found it to be the most proverbially beautiful Mogwai song since Golden Porsche. It took a while to grow on me, though.

[Hyphe]

What's your view on Thank You Space Captain? Personally, I found it to be the most proverbially beautiful Mogwai song since Golden Porsche. It took a while to grow on me, though.

They are both certainly very nice, though neither are particularly beautiful to me. I find Thank You Space Expert too slow and heavy-handed, personally. How To Be A Werewolf is my favourite of all their songs, but that's solely a sentimental personal preference.

[dhokarena56]

The late Eri Kawai's cover of Cruel Angel Thesis from Neon Genesis Evangelion. It sends shivers down my spine, but it is absolutely...well...Just listen.

The first mental image I had when listening to it was of the world ending, and the sun setting over a boiling ocean, and all the world's children standing up and singing the song before humanity was wiped out forever.

[Anaximander]

Based on some of the other posts (many of which I do like BTW...thanks for sharing), I don't expect that rustic, old blues recordings will garner much praise. Nonetheless, Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" ranks high on my list.

[Anaximander]

After some reflection...this would probably also rank high on the list:

Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" from Grace

Rest in peace sir...

[Queen Arasene]

I always thought it was "Climb every mountain" (Reprise if you can find it).
Always gives me the shivers when they get up on the highest notes

[clockworkmonk]

House of the Rising Sun-Joan Baez

Though This is just one of a multitude of versions of this song. Haven't heard a single one I disliked.

anyways, here are more
House of the Rising Sun-Nina Simone

House of the Rising Sun-The Animals

in this list, the newest is the Animals version.

[Ashedfog]

Claire De Lune - Possibly the first composition I have ever been emotionally attached too. I heard it first time when I was about 12 years old and have been in love with it ever since. Been even trying to learn it on piano for the past few months, but I suck too much to do so.

[UniqueScreenname]

I think it's pretty hard on piano. Most of the versions of it I've heard have been orchestral. I've tried to learn it too, but I can't get past the very beginning.

[TimeMaster]

A song that always bring a smile to my face, and sometimes tears to the eyes, is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhoa7oWPPhk

Star Trek: First Contact - Main Theme.

Another great song: Lisa Gerrard - Now we are free. This link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzpW7P83sb4&feature=related

It's inaccurately titled, but it's great. . .especially with that video.

[piwakawaka42]

A few of my favourites:
Farewell by apocolyptica.
Quiet dimension by Colapse under the empire.
The first movment of mozart's 40th symphony
Losing my religion by REM

[cjmcjmcjmcjm]

Incantations by Mike Oldfield (especially part 1)

[darknut]

(the game) journeys Apotheosis, especially when paired with the imagery its supposed to go with, just...beautiful

on a completely different musical note, two Kula Shaker songs i've had stuck in my head a while
Great Hosannah which i think is greatness
and Ophelia a pretty song which is short (dont let the video length fool you)

[ArDeeJ]

Because I'm unable to choose.

Bonobo:

Spoiler:

Stay the Same
Black Sands
Transmission 94 Part 1&2
Animals

Clark:

Spoiler:

Com Touch
Black Stone
Absence
Farewell Mining Town

Amon Tobin:

Spoiler:

Dropped From The Sky (I always get tears in my eyes during the ending)
Calculate
Here Comes The Moon Man
Horsefish

Plaid:

Spoiler:

Missing
Founded
Even Spring (especially the first part)
Hydrosphere

Eskmo:

Spoiler:

Cloudlight
Communication
Siblings
My Gears Are Starting To Tremble

Bibio:

Spoiler:

Clark - Ted (Bibio remix)
Amon Tobin - Wooden Toy (Bibio rework)
Mind Bokeh
Saint Christopher

NOT INCLUDED: Any ambient work by Aphex Twin or Autechre

[Oryx]

Awesome song by Clint Mansell & Mogwai.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgC6215Gko