Music that screws you up ...

[Benchwayze]

My top 3 'music that moves me' pieces:

2nd Movement of the Beethoven Emperor Concerto (Piano concerto No 5)

Steve

=D>

Thank you Steve. I haven't had time lately to sit crying to music, but this I had forgotten about, so I dug out the CD again!

Cheers
:ho2

 

[JSW]

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

Quintessentially English, if you can hold back a tear by the end, you're a better man than me.

 

[Benchwayze]

It must be Christmas - no one (as yet ) has come in with "blo0dy hell, that's awful!" for anyone's choices. :lol:

I am no fan of Vaughan Williams; generally I find him too 'grave'. So that's as close as I'll come to 'awful!', because it takes all sorts!

Mind you, I do like 'The Lark Ascending' But of course most of us would.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

- I have to confess I think The Lark Ascending is appalling. I can't think of anything else that has me heading for the "off" button so quickly.
+1 for Beethoven's Emperor. Sublime.

 

[RogerS]

:....I can't think of anything else that has me heading for the "off" button so quickly.
...

Bruch's Violin Concerto ?

Brahm's Violin Concerto ?

Back on topic, Shostakovitch Symphony 10 does it for me especially when one considers the context. Things like Stalin's compulsory famine in Ukraine where over a million people died. My mothers' family were fortunate to survive.

 

[Myfordman]

I just cannot comprehend how any music (or sound) can affect anyone in this way (apart from the case where a piece of music is associated with prior personal emotional experience).

 

[Paul200]

John Martyn - Bless the weather. I've got my reasons ;-)

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I saw him twice '70 '71 - brilliant. He had serious pain from his legs when he died, due to diabetes - having lost a leg to it, I felt for him. You know you're in the doggie do's when the Oromorph no longer works... though he said the pain wasn't so bad that four bottles of whisky a night couldn't cure it. I didn't try that.

 

[Paul200]

I saw him twice '70 '71 - brilliant. He had serious pain from his legs when he died, due to diabetes - having lost a leg to it, I felt for him. You know you're in the doggie do's when the Oromorph no longer works... though he said the pain wasn't so bad that four bottles of whisky a night couldn't cure it. I didn't try that.

A complex man and a wonderful talent. Seen him more times than I can remember Phil. He's been the proverbial soundtrack to my life and I genuinely miss him. He was resigned to his health problems and only blamed himself - after a lifetime of hard drinking it was almost inevitable. Doesn't sound like that's the cause of your problems though Phil - diabetes runs in my family and, although I don't suffer, you have my sympathy.

 

[Benchwayze]

I just cannot comprehend how any music (or sound) can affect anyone in this way (apart from the case where a piece of music is associated with prior personal emotional experience).

MM.

It's the same 'mechanism' that comes into play, when a pottery competition judge weeps, when he sees the efforts of lesser mortals! Whether he's weeping in frustration or admiration, might not be 100% clear, but he weeps, all the same! (If you didn't watch the Great British Pottery 'throw-off' you'll be none the wiser) :wink:
Happy New Year

John