Most inspiriting works (three allowed)

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Here it is, with its usual companion, Stroking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRDCGoQ8xbk

MGV by Nyman too is pretty adrenalinating.

It really is very beautiful - thanks. 
Think I have MGV on a CD somewhere.

[Jay F]

Mahler 3. Mr. Mirror Image has pushed this to the top of my Mahler Awareness Pile.

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the Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

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One of Mozart's Piano Concertos. I don't usually listen to them one at a time. Instead, I'll select "Perahia Mozart" or "Brendel Mozart Concerto" in iTunes and binge on Mozart + pianist for a couple of hours. It almost always does wonders for my serenity/inspiritedness. Today I'm on Perahia's No. 26. I often decide I like his versions best, but this music is bulletproof. I think I've liked every version of every one of Mozart's Piano Concertos I've ever heard. Even when they're just okay, they're still fairly excellent. I don't know what the sound quality is like on the currently available box set of Perahia's Mozart PCs. I bought one of the CDs that had been converted to DSD, and found l liked the original CD sound better, so I never upgraded.

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[North Star]

Bach: Musical Offering
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131
Sibelius: The Tempest

[Ken B]

the Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

That is a great choice, but really an ironic one if you think about the lyrics, and of course the impending disaster. The recording sessions are available on Spotify, and are really interesting.

[Jay F]

That is a great choice, but really an ironic one if you think about the lyrics, and of course the impending disaster. The recording sessions are available on Spotify, and are really interesting.

Yes, very ironic when you juxtapose "inspiriting" with "I just wasn't made for these times." But it's so beautiful, and that's most of what I took in when I bought Pet Sounds when it was reissued in 1974. I lived in DC then, near the Watergate, and very much felt I wasn't made for Watergate times, either. This helped me get through. I listened mainly to the Beach Boys, the Kinks, and Gershwin thenadays, with a Scott Joplin and a couple of Streisand albums thrown in. I really didn't like much of what was current then at all, and had yet to discover classical music.

And yes, with the impending disaster, I feel even more strongly that these are the times for which I just wasn't made.

[Ken B]

Yes, very ironic when you juxtapose "inspiriting" with "I just wasn't made for these times." But it's so beautiful, and that's most of what I took in when I bought Pet Sounds when it was reissued in 1974. I lived in DC then, near the Watergate, and very much felt I wasn't made for Watergate times, either. This helped me get through. I listened mainly to the Beach Boys, the Kinks, and Gershwin thenadays, with a Scott Joplin and a couple of Streisand albums thrown in. I really didn't like much of what was current then at all, and had yet to discover classical music.

And yes, with the impending disaster, I feel even more strongly that these are the times for which I just wasn't made.

Ha! But I actually meant the impending disaster for Brian Wilson shortly after that album. But a nicely played stroke.

[pjme]

For the moment...

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem - the Sanctus , Benedictus and Strange meeting ( I'll never forget that first live performance...)
Johann Christian Bach: cantata Meine Freundin du bist schön - the last minutes with violinsolo ....( and heaven's door opens...)
RVW: Five mystical songs can move me to tears.


(I'm listening to Brahms Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal -male chorus. Bewitches me every single time...)
P.

[Ken B]

RVW: Five mystical songs can move me to tears.

Yes, still after all these years too.

We count three hundred but we miss
There is but one, and that one ever.

A magical setting.

[Jay F]

Ha! But I actually meant the impending disaster for Brian Wilson shortly after that album. But a nicely played stroke.

I see Brian's disaster as originating in that moron from what was it, Creem Magazine, who declared the Beach Boys "Doris Days on Surfboards." I loved all the songs that were supposed to become SMiLe, though I knew nothing of the album or its backstory until 1991, when the Good Vibrations box set came out, and there was SMiLe on Disc 2. Now there's some inspiriting music. The complete "Heroes and Villains" may be my favorite song of all time. If only those damned hippies would have STFU, we could have been listening to the album 25 years earlier. Your view of the situation may differ.

[vandermolen]

Yes, still after all these years too.

We count three hundred but we miss
There is but one, and that one ever.

A magical setting.

Me too (Five Mystical Songs).

[vandermolen]

Bach: Musical Offering
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131
Sibelius: The Tempest

I share your view of The Tempest - especially the complete version on BIS. Sibelius is the only composer whose music I can listen to regardless of the mood I'm in. Something about it reflecting the elemental power of nature I think.