Which piece(s) of music move you deeply?

[accountantpete]

Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention.

 

[Dayvo]

Completely agree with the JC version of 'Hurt'! Very moving and powerful.

As is this, from 'Gladiator' - the final scene, 'Now We Are Free' by Lisa Gerrard!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CppQF_nwn8


They both give me goosepimples every time I hear them!

 

[terry huckle]

This one gets me every time; a true anti war song


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUfVjFmgG0&feature=PlayList&p=901431DC9925A2B0


Apart from that, "World in Union"...the Bryn Terfel/Shirley bassey version I find quite inspiring.

Leonard Cohen`s "If it be your will"

Yes "Hurt" as delivered by J Cash is a good suggestion.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sorry, Johhny Cash singing 'Hurt' doesn't do anything for me but I could be in a minority here....

In My Next Life by Merle Haggard - about a farmer lamenting his failures and, on his deathbed, promising to make it up to his wife in his next life. MH is a great songwriter although strangely enough he didn't pen this one.

Couple of others -

Flyin' Shoes - Townes Van Zandt
The Rock of my Soul - Rodney Crowell
If I had no Place to Fall - Steve Young's version of another TVZ song.

 

[Archie_tect]

As is this, from 'Gladiator' - the final scene, 'Now We Are Free' by Lisa Gerrard!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CppQF_nwn8

That's the one Dayvo- thanks for posting the title!

 

[numbnuts]

the last post
I vow to thee

 

[papercorn2000]

A recording of Dreary Sunday by Billie Holliday - not long before she died. Her voice was nearly shot but still had that fantastic depth and emotion to it.

Otherwise; Cash and Strummer's version of Redemption Songs, most songs by Joni Mitchell - one of the greatest examples of the human voice as a musical instrument, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins etc. etc.

I keep on thinking of more...

 

[Archie_tect]

"Father and Son" by Cat Stevens coming on the radio forced me stop the car to 'regroup' after we dropped our son off at university three years ago.

As will "Flies in the Butter" by Wynnona Judd or "Slipping Thru' My Fingers" by Abba after we drop our daughter off in 2 weeks.... <sniff>

 

[MacB]

Season in the Sun by Terry Jacks:-


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8


Two Little Boys can still bring a teary eyed moment as well

 

[Archie_tect]

....on occasion the irony of my sig is more pertinent than others

 

[papercorn2000]

The Red Flag (sung by Black Flag)

 

[Blackandblue]

Hurt by Johnny Cash (even more so when watching the video).

(Something Inside) So Strong by Labi Siffre

A Time to Say Goodbye by Katherine Jenkins (although most poignantly sung by a neighbour at my daughter's funeral)

 

[Archie_tect]

A Time to Say Goodbye by Katherine Jenkins (although most poignantly sung by a neighbour at my daughter's funeral)

B+B........ <hug>

 

[Archie_tect]

Red and Black..... or Bring Him Home sung by the Les Miserables cast. Still gets me.

 

[Globalti]

Cecil Coles, Behind the Lines, especially movement 3, Cortege. Almost unbearably poignant. Coles was killed aged 29 on the Somme. His daughter, who he never knew, kept the bloodstained manuscript of his first symphony and this is the only recording of the first ever performance of the incomplete piece. Amazingly his daughter studied music under Gustav Holst but was so in awe of him that she never spoke to him. Had she done so she might have discovered that her late father had been a friend and protegé of Holst but she didn't find out until the music was finally perfomed in public.

Details here: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA67293

Listen to it and keep a handkerchief handy.