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If you can name a short (<5 mins) piece of music more beautiful, moving but also all-encompassing than Bach's "Air on a G-String" please do so; I can't. Listen
by te0006 9y ago
If you can name a short (<5 mins) piece of music more beautiful, moving but also all-encompassing than Bach's "Air on a G-String" please do so; I can't. Listen to this interpretation before deciding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVSgEdT4KI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cVSgEdT4KI . Love, loss, despair, grievance, new hope, closure - it's all in there in this single, short, compassionate-but-not-sentimental, solemn-but-not-sad, perfectly balanced, ethereal piece.
- MrJagil 9y agoBeen loving this lately https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGybwV3U9W8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGybwV3U9W8
- jacquesm 9y agoThank you both those are beautiful.
- mercer 9y agoSeriously! This is making my Saturday even better than I hoped it would be. I often forget properly listening, and instead end up having the same bunch of Spotify songs on repeat throughout the week. For all the suggestions in this thread I even dusted off my 'really good but uncomfortable' headphones :).
- coldtea 9y agoTry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMVkQ70I88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMVkQ70I88 (Bach) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU (Satie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeAc0oh818s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeAc0oh818s (Beethoven)
- kenny87 9y agoa quite beautiful polyphonic piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPaJLXfd-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPaJLXfd-w. but agreed that some of the most beautiful musical pieces mankind has ever created can be found in the Western classical music tradition. i don't care very much for comparing who is better than whom.
- Moorcountry 9y agoLacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem - more emotion and tragedy than Bach's Air.