The most beautiful thing you have ever heard.

Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli playing just about anything. Perhaps my favorites are Tears, Nuages and Improvisation On Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' Andante

Here's a 30 second sample, best I could come up with . . .

Well I'll say my wife saying " I DO " on our wedding day

{ Do I get brownie points for saying that ? :lol: }

Apart from that music wise .. Mark Knofler in concert

Lately: Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major - Prelude

Just beautiful music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6yuR8efotI&mode=related&search=

I'm not even a real classical fan. Just love this song, learning it on guitar now.

I can't say I have this one song. What I'm currently back into is Rachmaninov. It's kinda hard to find a proper version, this is the most decent one I could find. My mind just keeps going all over the place as the song develops.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zqTrspJngJc&mode=related&search=

On the scenic drive which winds its way up Mount Shasta (in northern California), there is this one particular spot, where if you stop, turn off the engine and listen, the pine trees actually sing.

It's...beyond music. :)

Not of the usual genres I listen to, but one of the most beautiful songs I've ever, ever heard was an acoustic version of Lara Fabian's I Will Love Again. It was pure and clear -- elegant perfection. Piano and vocal and not much else. (Definitely NOT the disco/dance version. :? )

I can't provide a link as I have never been able to find it, and have never heard it again. I contacted the radio station that played it, and was told it was a version only released to radio. That's been quite a long time ago, so maybe it is available somewhere now.

Margaret

Margaret: I'm giving it a look, I'll yet you know if I find it. Did she perform it herself or was it an accoustic cover by someone else? There are a truckload of covers around, already spotted ten or so different nasty club remixes. Could it be the 'ballad reprise' edition?

Arjen wrote: I'm giving it a look, I'll yet you know if I find it. Did she perform it herself or was it an accoustic cover by someone else?

It was Lara Fabian singing, confirmed by the emails to and from the radio station.

The sound was ethereal and has haunted me ever since, wanting to hear it again. The lyrics and the delivery were heartbreaking yet triumphant.

The acoustics of the recording were key to the aura. I don't know how to describe it other than it sounded like she was all alone in an empty concert hall with nothing but a piano and a mic.

Please do let me know if you turn it up. Thanks!

Margaret

The Star Spangled Banner seems to put me in a trance. A young woman sang it at Fenway (Red Sox ballpark) last year (?) I think and she knocked me off me feet. I tried to look for a link, they had it on the offical Sox site, but I can't find it anymore. :(

"twilight" by the twilight singers, elliott smith's version of "because", jeff buckley's version of "hallelujah"

So many things:

Debussy's La Mer
Beck's rendition of Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Birds and wind in the trees just before dawn
Tangerine Dream's Rubycon
The Glenn Miller Orchestra playing In the Mood
Suzanne Vega singing Caramel

My children being born.

Nothing quite like it.

Abracadabra - Judee Sill (listen to this and you will never be the same)!!

I was in Florence and a short walk up from the Piazza de Michelangelo (which has one amazing view of the city) there is a small white church. I don't even remember it's name. I walked in and there was no one in the church other than me and a group of monks dressed in their long dark robes all the way to the back behind the altar. I am guessing they were rehearsing as they were singing gregorian chants. I didn't know monks actually still do that. I sat down in the very back row (which was wooden chairs) to not disturb them and listened to the most beautiful music ever: perfectly in tune with percect synchronization with out being too perfect and very etheral. You could have recorded it and sold it but no recording could have done it justice especially when you are actually there listening to it in a small white church just after seeing the most breathtaking view of Florence. When they ended, with out a sound, they all very orderly with no one directing filed out into a part of the church I could not see and then out of the church. The whole experience was transcendental. I just wish I had gotten there earlier to have heard more because it was truly the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. I am not a religious person but it was an amazing moment of peace.