Searching over a decade for this piece! Can you help?

[digitaljordan]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and pleased to meet you all 

I have a very difficult question as I need a piece of music identifying and the only reference is in my head! At 37 years old I've been trying to find this piece since my early 20's.. I "borrowed" a classical CD from my parents one day to listen to in the car on a long journey and found the most incredible and emotional piece of music I have ever heard. It became THE track I would put on to de-stress after work and would (in a classic 20-something manor) blast it out with all the windows down!

Unfortunately however, somebody saw fit to steal my car stereo and the CD was inside and since that day I have not heard it again.. except in my head.

I'm desperate now to find it again and have listened to hour upon hour of beautiful compositions but none of them are correct. I believe it is almost certainly either a double violin or violin and cello lead and at some point having gone down the scales the violin comes careering back up to a very high pitch as a bit of a finale.

There is one piece that is close but it isn't it and this is best I can give you I think. It's Bach's Double Violin Concerto - (1). There is a part of it that is similar (on the link below it's between 00:01:36 and 00:02:00) although I believe my music is a little slower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesrqFeq9rU

This is all so vague I know and I doubt anyone will be able to help me but I am so passionate about finding this music and have no been searching for over a decade. Any help would be wonderful.

Many thanks in advance, Chris

[The new erato]

If the style is baroque as in Bach (the accompaniment should give some clues) I would start searching in the slow movement of some Vivaldi concertoes. There are some wonderful ones for two instruments. Have you done that?

[digitaljordan]

Thank you for the reply. I've mainly focused my search on "violin" or "double violin".. I'm not that knowledgeable on styles etc so I'm afraid I haven't really known where to start. Having recently picked the search back up however I think the cello was more prevalent as I remember there being a lot of bass notes with the violin plus a full string accompaniment. Do you have any specific pieces in mind?

[The new erato]

Vivaldi have several, but it shouldn't take long to decide if they fit with your general memories of the style:

Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECg7NFnt_Zc

in which case a further youtube search might be fruitful.

[Parsifal]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and pleased to meet you all 

I have a very difficult question as I need a piece of music identifying and the only reference is in my head! At 37 years old I've been trying to find this piece since my early 20's.. I "borrowed" a classical CD from my parents one day to listen to in the car on a long journey and found the most incredible and emotional piece of music I have ever heard. It became THE track I would put on to de-stress after work and would (in a classic 20-something manor) blast it out with all the windows down!

Unfortunately however, somebody saw fit to steal my car stereo and the CD was inside and since that day I have not heard it again.. except in my head.

I'm desperate now to find it again and have listened to hour upon hour of beautiful compositions but none of them are correct. I believe it is almost certainly either a double violin or violin and cello lead and at some point having gone down the scales the violin comes careering back up to a very high pitch as a bit of a finale.

There is one piece that is close but it isn't it and this is best I can give you I think. It's Bach's Double Violin Concerto - (1). There is a part of it that is similar (on the link below it's between 00:01:36 and 00:02:00) although I believe my music is a little slower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesrqFeq9rU

This is all so vague I know and I doubt anyone will be able to help me but I am so passionate about finding this music and have no been searching for over a decade. Any help would be wonderful.

Many thanks in advance, Chris

Was the CD of music by one composer, or one of those "most beautiful melodies of all time" compilations?

Was the piece for full orchestra or for a small ensemble of instruments

How long was the track?

If it was a compilation there is a good chance that it is one of the classical greatest hits like Pachelbel's Canon, Bach's Air on the G-string or the Albinoni Adagio.  You can sample releases such as this one:

[asin]B0000041SX[/asin]

If course, you could also ask you parents if they remember the CD you pinched from them.  Maybe they're still looking for it. 

[spooky]

Perhaps if not baroque, then it could be Brahms double concerto

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Concerto_(Brahms)
The Double Concerto was Brahms' final work for orchestra. It was composed in the summer of 1887, and first performed on 18 October of that year in the Gürzenich in Köln, Germany.[1] Brahms approached the project with anxiety over writing for instruments that were not his own.[2] He wrote it for the cellist Robert Hausmann, a frequent chamber music collaborator,[3] and his old but estranged friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim. The concerto was, in part, a gesture of reconciliation towards Joachim, after their long friendship had ruptured following Joachim's divorce from his wife Amalie.[4][5] (Brahms had sided with Amalie in the dispute.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKpSDBvn9w

[Szykneij]

Corelli might be a possibility:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8aLJcL7J4

[Szykneij]

Also, this piece (attributed to Albinoni) has the descending line motif and similar progression at the slower tempo you mention. It's a composition that appears on many compilation CDs. --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4