Most achingly-beautiful music

Another strong vote for Lux Aeterna. This is great stuff. I find it quite peculiar that here I am, a 50 year old one-time Deadhead Jew with a growing fondness for sacred choral music. My Dad calls it Sacred Schmaltz. I love the place this music takes me to.

"The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" by Traffic (Steve Winwood). Hauntingly beautiful and mesmerizing.
I got to hear/see Steve Winwood perform this live at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California, last Tuesday, July 1, from the 3rd row, just right of center.
I was in heaven!
(CD's great, to.)

--Steve

"Me so Horney" by 2 Live Crew.

"Baby's got back" by Sir Mixalot.

"And Justice for all" Metallica.

You're all freaky! :)

Not quite achingly beautiful, more like lilting ear candy, but Morten Lauridsen's 4 minute piece called Dirait-on sure has captured my fancy. It's the last of several pieces from his cycle called Les Chansons des Roses, which are poems by Rilke that Lauridsen set to music. I have 3-4 recordings of it now. As I said, it's ear candy. Might be the next Pachelbel's Canon (I regret to say).

Elgar - Sospiri
Sigur Ros - ( ) esp. track 6
Grainger - Variations On A Theme From County Derry (Danny Boy)
Dvorak - Symphony 9, 2nd movement.

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