Do you have a favourite aria?

[iKon]

If so, why, and when did you first listen to it?

[The Xeno]

...?
This is headed for a lock unless it is suddenly revealed just what that post constitutes.

[agapooka]

I'd say music section.

[The Xeno]

I figured it was either a girls name, music group, music style, or some manner of albino bohemian fern fungus... just couldn't decide.

[iKon]

sorry. wasn't aware we had a music section

[Spam Bot]

Yes. The Aria from the first movement of Gorecki's Third Symphony. It was taken from a wall at Dachau, and was a lament from someone who had lost their entire family. To this day it brings tears to my eyes, not just the words (which are in Polish anyway) but the beauty of the aria. I have 2 versions of it - Joanna Kowzlowska's and Dawn Upshaw's. Both intense.

[iKon]

Yes. The Aria from the first movement of Gorecki's Third Symphony. It was taken from a wall at Dachau, and was a lament from someone who had lost their entire family. To this day it brings tears to my eyes, not just the words (which are in Polish anyway) but the beauty of the aria. I have 2 versions of it - Joanna Kowzlowska's and Dawn Upshaw's. Both intense.

I know exactly what you're talking about, I have that very version on remastered CD, and I agree - there is something about Gorecki's music that just reverberates through the soul, and not just the contect of the symphony; a very passionate composer indeed.

[Apollo]

What do you think them of Lamb's song Gorecki? I love it, but not for it's ties to the Symphony. I love it for it's own sake. Unlike when most Classics are violated for the pop market - Vitamin C, for your crimes against Canon you are hereby sentenced to death by.... well, by cannon.

[iKon]

I think lamb has a certain hypnotic quality about her anyway which, when she really focuses on her music transcends pop trend anyway, for example, gabriel is absolutely beautiful to listen to when you're trying to wind down.

I actually like faithless for the same reason