Most Beautiful Piece Of Music You've Heard

Mattias, hate to tell you this but most of your links are corrupted. I tried stripping out some of what looked like the wrong characters but no joy. Glad you included a Keith Jarrett - he belongs in this thread.

Talking of great pianists, Chick Corea's first Return to Forever song always carries me away, with some of my favourite drumming ever by Airto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2E3W9xygWM

This is something Chick did that I really really enjoy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shWrMVSj_hk
 
and Frost! Nobuo Uematsu makes some incredibly beautiful music in his games. Final Fantasy soundtracks can stand alone as amazing albums. Here's one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIW9lHUihE

I didn't actually know who composed Sudeki Da Ne, though it makes sense, Nobuo Uematsa composes most of the music for Square's main franchises.

Some video game/film scores have struck a chord with me before, they are designed to, but rarely do I go out of my way to find the songs, when I heard Sudeki Da Ne for the first time, Rikki's vocal gripped my heart. .

The title translates to something along the lines of "Isn't it beautiful", it is a song about a brief moment of joy in unrequited love; powerful stuff.
 
This is something Chick did that I really really enjoy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shWrMVSj_hk

Yes, it's magnificent.

My fave rendition of this is on the Round Midnight soundtrack CD with Bobby Mc's amazing mimicry of a muted trumpet - with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxYj28wC3w

Maybe related to Miles's Blue in Green and Trane's Alabama as beautiful, melancholic songs is Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
 
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I really like the songs I've heard so far. Still have a few left to listen to in this thread, but some songs that pop into my mind that I'd like to add here are part 3 of PT's Anesthetize and Exotic Animal Petting Zoo's Arendering. The latter's band name's pretty odd, an a lot of their songs reflect that in a way, but this song is just so special to me and always leaves me feeling inspired.
 
Forgot yet another one - King Crimson's Bolero. It's almost like the evolution of music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUGut4M8Ighttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmj822YNLE

Sorry, I've been hijacking. I'll shut up for a while now :)
I've actually been going through my dad's old vinyl collection lately that he gave me, and this has been the most played record so far. Really good, highly underrated. I've heard it before a long time ago, but never gave it much of a chance until recently.
 
Yes, it's magnificent.

My fave rendition of this is on the Round Midnight soundtrack CD with Bobby Mc's amazing mimicry of a muted trumpet - with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxYj28wC3w

Maybe related to Miles's Blue in Green and Trane's Alabama as beautiful, melancholic songs is Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Kind of funny to think that is the same guy that sang, "Don't Worry - Be Happy."

Also, you can't hijack something that the OP is posting in every two or three posts :D
 
Anyone that has seen Eva has probably heard this, it hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread, so I thought I'd give it a plug.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8

My "most beautiful" piece of music has turned into a rather long list by this point in the thread. I still stand by my original post though, though this song... something about it is truely otherworldly.
 
Just thought I'd post something a bit darker, kind of depressive beauty, a poem for the dead,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajIupYw6Zmw

Well, the band name 'Profound Tears' kind of gives it away!

Rachmaninoff's 18th Variation from 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' is very beautiful, although I'm actually deeply fond of a record called 'Foldings' by a group that include Mark Wastell and Tetuzi Akiyama.
 
Well, the band name 'Profound Tears' kind of gives it away!

Rachmaninoff's 18th Variation from 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' is very beautiful, although I'm actually deeply fond of a record called 'Foldings' by a group that include Mark Wastell and Tetuzi Akiyama.

The album is "...La Naissance d'un Rêve"

The birth of a dream. A reference to the afterlife.

It's quite dark yet profound, very classical inspired, kind of odd they ended up becoming a pop goth rock outfit like HIM.
 
Horrible Infernal Mediocrity? Nobody should ever end up sounding like that!

Just thought of another one. The second of Schoenberg's 'Drei Klavierstucke' entitled 'Massige Achtel'. Just fantastic. And 'Regard du Pere' by Olivier Messiaen. I love my piano music.
 
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