What is your all time favourite piece of music?

You Tube ^ | December 27, 2013 | beaversmom

[beaversmom]

If you had to pick just one piece of music (song or purely instrumental) as your TOP favourite, what would it be? I've got SO many loves, but if I had to choose a very top ONE, it would be The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

It was my first love musically as a child (6 years old in 1973 when I first heard it) and has stuck with me all this time. It is poetic, beautiful, and passionate. It taps deep in me bringing out so many emotions. I absolutely love the opening line..."Hello darkness my old friend..." That is pure magic to me. I love how the intensity of the song progresses with guitar and pace.

Sound of Silence

Tell me yours and why and include You Tube video and lyrics if desired. :)

[beaversmom]

My all-time favorite popular song is Auch Du Wirst Mich Einmal Betrügen (You, too, will betray me someday) by Ilya Livshakoff & His Orchestra, with vocal refrain by Leo Monosson (1930)

Now that is an oldie. Love the pics on video. :)

[beaversmom]

Thank you. Will check out.

[cornelis]

da Vinci: Adoration of the Magi

This painting opens the Tarkovsky film "The Sacrifice."
The film pans from the top to the bottom while Bach's Erbarme Dich plays in the background.

Erbarme dich, mein Gott,
um meiner Zähren willen!
Schaue hier, Herz und Auge
weint vor dir bitterlich.
Erbarme dich, mein Gott.

Have mercy, my God,
for the sake of my tears!
See here, before you
heart and eyes weep bitterly.
Have mercy, my God.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Simon & Garfunkle song is Hey, School Girl, which they recorded under the name Tom & Jerry and released in late 1957.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite popular songs for each decade from World War I to Iraqi War I

• 1910's--Until--Claudia Muzio (1918)

• 1920's--Slue Foot--The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (1928)

• 1930's--Lullyby of the Leaves--George Olsen & His Music (1932)

• 1940's--Rainbow at Midnight--Texas Jim Robertson (1947)

• 1950's--Tie: No Other Love--Jo Stafford (1950)/Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)

• 1960's--Presumida (Smug)--Luis Bravo (1961)

• 1970's--Don't Let Him Touch You--The Angelettes (1972)

• 1980's--Wally Rap--Wally George (1986)

• 1990's--Don't Give Us a Reason--Hank Williams, Jr. (1990)

[ADemocratNoMore]

> I was going to ping you to the Vangelis thread I posted earlier this year, but you already posted on it:

Here's a weird one for you - I must have logged out soon after posting because I never saw a lot of the replies folks had to my post - thanks for the link.

Us there a Freeper ProgRock Pinglist? Something like your all-time favorite piece of music deserves it's own sticky thread, if we ever get something like that on FR.

BTW - You might like this if you haven't seen it - Vangelis - Live in Rotterdam 1991...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57LOkNC0yxY

[beaversmom]

Funny, I just played this one by Vangelis minutes ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LkUIQ5go8

and thought about you and that thread.

Thanks for the live Vangelis. Don’t think I’ve seen that one before. Going to listen more now.

[beaversmom]

And I can prove I just listened...see post on the You Tube thread from me...jeepersfreepers. :)

[PA Engineer]

One song? If there was one, then I would have to choose and instrumental that helped me to sleep in many far away and dark places.

Eyes of the Heart (Keith Jarret) Part 2. I cannot find part one on Youtube. It was in improv that seemed like a modern day Tchaikovsky to me.

[Earthdweller]

Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M

[caww]

Well, it’s just after New Years Eve and I really enjoyed your link to Dances with Wolfs at this time of celebration ...got hung up there listening to all the soundtrack video from that movie..... which also had some close up scenes not seen in the film.

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards did a great work on the piece....and since I’m Scottish Irish you just know I appreciated that rendition as well as all the rest.

Berry does wonderful work and was responsible for my start of selecting/purchasing musical sound tracks. Dances with Wolves was wonderful throughout as you know...as was Out of Africa and others.

As for the Mountaintop story...there’s actually more....I’ll share another time....enough you know a fellow, sightseeing down further the mountain, heard me playing this remarkable soundtrack and followed the sound.

[caww]

I was thinking of older songs I heard as a kid and remembered this song caught my attention...”Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine”...can’t even recall the artist but the song stayed with me.

Amazing how songs when we were young stay in our heads...and we remember when, and where, we heard them.

My mom was a lover of big bands and that era of music so I was introduced to the “good stuff” early on, which I think likely gave me the “ear” I have today as there is very little music I cannot appreciate in some form or another. It’s more about the flow and orchestration of the work and piece..how it moves...for me.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Mary fahl - going home

[Fiji Hill]

I was thinking of older songs I heard as a kid and remembered this song caught my attention...”Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine”...can’t even recall the artist but the song stayed with me.

Helen Morgan, singing with Victor Young & His Orchestra had the big hit in the early summer of 1928. These were also bestsellers:

Can't Help Lovin' That Man--Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra (1928)

Can't Help Loving That Man--Aunt Jemima (1928)

[ChildOfThe60s]

Here is a well done documentary on the making of LA Woman from 2011.
60 minutes. Music and good interviews with the band (including Ray) and those in the production end, Bruce Botnick, Jac Holzman, Bill Siddons. Very interesting.

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

[Zathras]

Hans Zimmer

[william clark]

Classical - Scheherezade

Otherwise, probably Nat King Cole’s rendition of Stardust

[Mr. Mojo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Große_Fuge

[beaversmom]

:)

[beaversmom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BVug_TikI