Elgar especially 'Nimrod', Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto number 2, Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Debussy's Clare de Lune etc ....
Final act of Otello with Vickers and Serafin, final moments of Peter Grimes( again Vickers), 2nd movement of Barber’s Violin Concerto with Stern and Bernstein and Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis.
There are so many, it’s hard to know where to begin. But it’s hard to top Klaus Nomi’s debut performance — a precious thing, even with the poor recording quality:
Lullaby in Ragtime, either Danny Kaye or Harry Nilsson,
Elgar, Elegy, Op.58
Elgar, Sospiri, Op.70
In the Bleak Midwinter. The Kanneh - Mason version I just heard sounds great, must look it out.
Tecumseh / Tecumsah Valley, Townes Van Zandt, either version but especially the one on our mother the mountain, always gets to me when he sings 'they found her down...'. Not sure why really, just does.
And a lot of Schubert my favourite composer eg the ghostly echo of the theme in the development section of the first movement of d960. Or the opening of the piano duet d940. Or any number of songs!
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