what music connects you to the heavens?

Were I a Christian - which I most certainly am not - when I first heard this piece, one might say that I thought I had died and gone to heaven, I was so deeply and profoundly moved.

Many(MANY) years ago when a student at Washington U. in St.Louis, Mo., while strolling across the campus one fall afternoon, as I neared the chapel its organ instructor(I later learned) abruptly and at full volume it seemed begin performing it without interruption, thru to completion. I stopped dead in my tracks, and just stood there as if rooted into the ground:

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

And though most musicologist I think consider it to be trite, vastly over-rated and performed, it still always lifts me into the highest transcendent realms of what "being/existence", is all about.

Corny? Maybe so; but that's me,

Alberich

I used to only like heavy and death metal, but after listening to some old Led Zeppelin songs, they have completely changed my taste in music. For example, Rock 'n' Roll, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Over the Hills and Far Away, Immigrant Song, etc... This, to me, is the best music ever created... Jimmy Page is an awesome guitarist, John Bonham was an awesome drummer (R.I.P), John Paul Jones is an awesome bassist, and... Robert Plant is an amazing singer. In my opinion, too many teens nowadays listen to purely metal music, like Slayer, Metallica, Ministry, etc... They are not exposed enough to this "real" music, i.e. music with heart and soul AS WELL AS sounding great, like Led Zeppelin. They are the best band ever. The first time I heard Stairway to Heaven, I was obsessed with all metal music, mainly Metallica and Slayer, so I found Stairway to Heaven boring and unexciting. But after listening to it a few times and getting more technical with my guitar playing, I started to realise just how great of a song it is. Led Zeppelin is the best band, because they can take something simple, like a 12 bar blues sequence, and make it sound so good (Rock 'n' Roll). If you haven't already, listen to Whole Lotta Love live off the "How the West Was Won" album, it goes for about 23 minutes, but it is absolutely amazing the way the whole band connects to the blues roots of rock and roll (the genre, not the song :P) as we know it today.

If you mean as in "music of the spheres," then...

Ives: Unanswered Question / 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge', (from Orchestral Set No. 1) / Symphony no. 4, 1st movement.

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet / Triadic Memories, for solo piano / Coptic Light, for orchestra.

Messiaen: The final movement from the Quartet for the end of time (violin and piano) - VII: Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus) / the variations for violin and piano. / Some of the pieces from the organ suite, Nativite de Seigneur / ditto, some of the pieces from Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jesus, for piano.

Stravinsky: Zvedoliki (Le Roi des etoiles) for male chorus and orchestra. / Apollo, for string orchestra.

Dear Wolfie A. Mozart - leaving out so many, but all of the Piano Concerto No. 27, B- flat, K. 595, especially the first movement / Quintet for Piano and Winds, E major, K, 452: II. Larghetto.

Best regards.

At the minute this ethereal recording of seven motets for unaccompanied voices along with the E minor Mass by Anton Bruckner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/8mbd

Also the 3rd movement to Beethoven's 15th Sting Quartet in A minor.

The coda to Mahler's 2nd Symphony as the chorus builds layers of sound with a final statement of the 'Auferstehn' theme

and lately the entire 8th Symphony as well but especially the final "Chorus Mysticus".

If I have to have a tryst with Euterpe, I always gravitate to what makes me a musician, and Opera being our Savage Mistress as mute instrumentalists, I'm spoilt for choice at which altar to worship.

But when heaven is a big party, and an encore turns into a rave for operatic royalty with Abbado at the helm having a ball too in Rossini's incomparable 'Il Viaggio a Rheims'...

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

That's cooking on gaz... :-))

All my very best,

Allegri's Miserere

Salvation Is Created by Pavel Tchesnokov.

The answer here is simple. It is Rafe Vaughn Williams "Lark Ascending".

Any music by JS. Bach

It really touches my heart when I listen to recordings or if I play it myself. JS. Bach is sublime.

Holst "The Planets"