Favourite piece of music

Un bel di vedremo from madam butterfly

Che Gelida manina from la Bohème.

That’s just off the top of my head.

Lucca, both of those were played at my sister in law's funeral last week, she adored opera, and had chosen the music. It was a lovely reminder of a very dear lady.

Almost too difficult to choose, but

Eric Satie - Gymnopedies and Gnossiens

Rodrego - Concierto de Aranguez

Vaughan Williams - Lark Ascending

Fleetwoodmac - Albatross

I also love many of the above.

Rodrigo

Flower Duet from Lakme.
Zadok the Priest - such a fabulous build up.
Ave Maria.

Life on Mars - David Bowie. The strings, arranged by Mick Ronson are just sublime. The song never fails to move me, even the first note gives me goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo&ab_channel=DavidBowie

Cantique de Jean Racine by Faure

grannysyb

Lucca, both of those were played at my sister in law's funeral last week, she adored opera, and had chosen the music. It was a lovely reminder of a very dear lady.

How wonderful. I’m absolutely not an opera expert but it does touch my heart I have to say.

The First Time Ever I saw Your Face...The Stereophonics
Chasing Cars....Snow Patrol
Nessun Dorma
Labelled With Love...Squeeze

I could go on and on.

Not my favourite piece of music but it never fails to give me goosebumps is “These are the days of my life” by Queen Freddie’s farewell really. Coincidentally I’m just watching it on Sky Arts tonight so that’s me in bits

youtu.be/6ZmROMci9CQ

Bruch violin concerto.

St. Matthew Passion - J S Bach in fact anything by Bach

Dido’s lament - Henry Purcell
Spem in Alium - Thomas Tallis
Piano concerto no. 1 - Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano concerto no.2 - Dimitri Shostakovich

And many many others.

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

The third movement of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony
Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem
Sanctus from the Armed Man by Karl Jenkins)
The Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly
Sull'aria by Mozart (the piece featured in The Shawshank Redemption
The John Williams music played over the end credits of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which morphs into When You Wish Upon A Star

Really too many to list, and certainly many already mentioned above

Acker Bilk "Strangers on the shore". Love all things clarinet anyway, but that gets to me the most.

The Armed Man a Mass for Peace composer Karl Jenkins (2 Cellos).

I also love Barcelona sung by Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Cabal. What a voice she has!

grandMattie - I share your love of Bach, especially St. Matthew Passion. When i was about 15 I sang in a choir which was my introduction to clasical music.
and many more the same as others. especially Beachboys.
gulligranny's first choice - Rachmaninov.
Borodin string quartet no.2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1b8YZj0f4&list=RDlz1b8YZj0f4&start_radio=1

Fennel, the Borodin is just meltingly lovely - excellent choice.

Song to the Moon from the opera Rusalka. I absolutely adore it. I have a CD of Lesley Garrett singing it.

Bach Double Violin does it for me every time. The best piece of music ever written, I have to stop whatever I am doing and listen,

Infinity2

Song to the Moon from the opera Rusalka. I absolutely adore it. I have a CD of Lesley Garrett singing it.

Oh, yes!

There are too many to mention, but for its sheer exhuberance, Bach’s “Prelude in E major” for piano. It’s only three and a half minutes long but it gives me a tremendous lift.
Parry’s “I Was Glad”;
Like Dinahmo Ravel’s G major. The second movement brings me to tears.
“Norfolk Rhapsody” No 1 by Vaughan Williams;
“Coronation Scot” by Vivian Ellis. Wonderfully evocative.
“Wouldn’t it be Nice” because I love The Beach Boys.
“Songbird” sung by Eva Cassidy.

I must confess to also being rather fond of Ian Drury singing Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick ?

Infinity2

I must confess to also being rather fond of Ian Drury singing Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick ?

Nice one. He's sadly missed.

I love the Elizabethan Serenade by Ronald Binge and of course many of those already shared.