Help, please!

[laviniaspeaks]

Dear Brilliant Friends List

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[ukashi_goshi]

Not piano and only an uncle of violin, but viola da gamba is emperor of haunting/yearning/melancholy. Check out Marin Marais' Folies d'Espagne. Here's Jordi Savall's performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73PAo-mgk_g

[laviniaspeaks]

This is lovely. Thank you!

[ukashi_goshi]

Oh, and for something a bit frightening/painful, check out Possessed by the Balanescu quartet. It's longish, but worth listening to the whole thing, because it goes through some extraordinary metamorphoses. It really is like possession, like something worming its way deeper and deeper into the music and forcing it to transform from the inside out. Or (figure/ground problem...) like the music is fighting to free itself of possession, and regaining itself inch by hard-fought inch. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsEM0HGafk

[laviniaspeaks]

OH MY GOSH. I already have this piece of music! It was in a show I was in--Caryl Churchill's Mouthful of Birds! We called it "The Dance of Extreme Happiness," as that was the scene it covered in the show. Wow. How awesome to finally have an artist and name to put to the piece! Thank you!!

[laviniaspeaks]

and it actually was following a scene about possession in the piece. AWESOME.

[ext_805440]

Hmm! I've been trying to find things in y. same Category re: mood and such. One would think that a 17-year violinist would have some more options from that instrument, but I have little...

Something that is quite gorgeous and haunting is Zbigniew Preisner's "Silence, Night and Dreams."

"Requiem for my Friend" by the same composer is also incredible.

[laviniaspeaks]

You rock my face off! Thanks for the recs!

[minigendo]

These were the ones your prompt triggered from memory. Ignore the fact that they're all from video games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTbedt3GUD0

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ls9A_F3XFU

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

[laviniaspeaks]

thank you so much!