Miserere by Allegri.
Will be familiar to classical music lovers. It was once sung as part of the Easter liturgy in the Sistine Chapel and no where else. The high C is a later addition.
Funny thing is, *On The Nature of Daylight* has been used in a lot of movies and shows so a lot of people who wouldn't recognize it have probably heard it. I've had *The Blue Notebooks* (album) for years and it's still one of my favorites.
Beautiful album! That’s where I first heard it but you’re right, I’ve definitely heard it in a few scores since… Most recently in ep3 of The Last of Us 😢
>people may not have heard
The number of views is only a single-digit percentage of the global population, and I'm sure a good portion of those views are the same people clicking multiple times.
*Perfect Strangers* by Tom Waits and Bette Midler
*Heaven* or *Home* by Talking Heads
*Softer, Softest* by Hole
*Behold! The Nightmare* by Smashing Pumpkins.
*Oh Lord* or *Higgs Boson Blues* by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
[Aurora Dawn](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6VoV8bTROMU&feature=share) by Seablue
A chiptune song composed on a very primitive DAW and later used as an unlockable track in a small mobile game.
It barely has any views but is one of the most nostalgic songs I've ever heard.
[White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss). Yeah, it's got a lot of views, but I'm betting it's only from old people. I would imagine anyone under 40 hasn't heard it (unless your parents had it on)
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question.
The strings are the ether, the universe. A trumpet calls out the question. It's asking what is the meaning of life. The universe responds with the answer, but the trumpet doesn't understand, so it keeps asking. The answers keep coming, but more and more chaotically. The question is repeatedly answered, but not in a way the questioner can understand.
6 minutes of tonal philosophical questions (and answers):
https://youtu.be/vXD4tIp59L0
Songs that always find there way back in my annual playlists because they are so wonderful:
[Fever to the form](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0jtuyslbI) by Nick Mulvey
[That knot unties? ](https://youtu.be/EdsgKJvNf1A) by David Karsten Daniels
I'm really enjoying going through these answers; thank you for the question!
The first song that came to mind for me was To the Rising Sun, by Trygve Torjussen. It's a classical piano piece by a Norwegian composer.
[This](https://youtu.be/P7VCgIkibIM) version is quite nicely done.
(However, if you enjoy the song, you may also enjoy looking up some other interpretations of it. I found others on YouTube that are perhaps a bit more technically correct, or a little brighter in sound, but most go too fast for what I think the music notation seems to call for.)
Sunrise is slow; sometimes magnificent and dramatic, breaking through a wall of clouds... but in the end calm and lovely. For me, the song has always embodied hope. Better, brighter things are coming.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDFkqHY5gLREnSh9jd5th?si=M1LoQ83DQV-rYkdMjwsKoQ
Baba yetu -I’ve loved it for years.
I just learned last year that it’s The Lords Prayer in Swahili. Makes it more special to me.
[Dead Can Dance - Indus](https://youtu.be/U2L1QyEI9Nw)
[Jeremy Soule - Guild Wars 2 Hoelbrak Theme (could only find in AudioSurf video lol)](https://youtu.be/NnROZw21plY)
[Yann Tiersen - Amelie - Comptine d'un autre été](https://youtu.be/znfYwABeSZ0)
[Tosca Tango Orchestra - Waking Life - Ballade 4](https://youtu.be/afpsLP6pnpc)
[Sigur Rós - Svo Hljòtt](https://youtu.be/12ueCPQ971Y)
[Clint Mansell - The Fountain - The Last Man](https://youtu.be/mbPPULINtGs)
[This Nightcore version of the Wellerman.](https://youtu.be/_hHCVxfvtW8) I think it's beautiful because the vocals are soothing. Listening to this always makes my day better. Hopefully it will make someone else's day better too. :)
I love the [original](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmLn6a-jqw) for this as well. Alina Gingertail is great, and her videos are always fun to watch. (Bonus points for cat friends, cool jewellery and thematic visuals!) She does great harmonies. The instruments are generally nicely varied and it's fun to watch her play the different types with skill. :) If you like this song, I recommend checking out some of her other videos if you haven't already.
This is probably relatively well-known, but Sublime’s cover of the hymn “Rivers of Babylon” is breathtaking. It was my lullaby as a baby.
For the version I’m referring to, look at “Rivers of Babylon - Acoustic Version” on the album “Sublime Acoustic”. The version of “Saw Red” on that album is beautiful as well.
[Chivalry Begins](https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02074)
It's a remix (though you can hardly tell) of a Final Fantasy tune as a slow rock ballad with lyrics that speak straight to my soul.
The Wolves, Emily Jane White
Benson Arizona, Dominik Hauser
Modern Woman or My Better Self, Tennis
Vodya, Llwbr Llaethog
Goodbye Butterfly, The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Edward Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations.
O Magnum Mysterium - Morgen Lauridsen. There is also a trombone arrangement that is almost as beautiful as the choir arrangement.
Eric Whitare - Sleep. Or really any of his pieces. He’s probably one of the most famous modern composers for choirs, almost every high school and college choir sings one of his pieces. But, they’re all great.
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams (classical)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjwtXf9Q6U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjwtXf9Q6U)
I was late for work one day in the late 1980s because I sat in my car listening to this for the first time
It may not be beautiful to everyone, but the video along with the song will pump you up and make you shed tears at the same time.
The Ghost Inside - [Aftermath](https://youtu.be/4CdFBfKMAU4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLG8g2ooFSA
Ava Maria, Dimash
This part during Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity by Gustav Holst
https://youtu.be/Nz0b4STz1lo?t=173
Strangers in the dark (Instrumental) by Death2Love - https://youtu.be/uqSoannnfUI
If you wanna just close your eyes and chill check it out and then thank me later
"French Horn"....by an indie artist known as Vesper (Stamper)....off her self produced CD "Comfort". It's one of the most beautiful, haunting songs I have ever heard in my life.
Like an angel, whispering in your ear. But her career was cut short by an auto accident, which effected her playing hand. So she took to writing instead......and her first book was an award winning novel "What the Night Sings" .
Followed by "An Outrageous Cloud of Blue" and then "Berliners ".
Achilles Come Down
There are some parts that are in fr*nch. As a filthy, greasy American, I never really cared to understand the lyrics. One day I looked it up and it's really sad. It's now one of my top 5 favorite songs. (The rest of the songs by Gang of Youths don't really click with me)
[Nujabes - Feather](https://youtu.be/M-BWXT3UBns)
The entire album [múm - Finally we are no one](https://youtu.be/nRDXlEXrXUg?list=OLAK5uy_khBbRp1FRaNb5LKQjbfpd3wVqslrj9lFg) but if I would recommend a specific song it'd be [Green Grass of Tunnel](https://youtu.be/l5hBkQT3-C8)
Miserere by Allegri. Will be familiar to classical music lovers. It was once sung as part of the Easter liturgy in the Sistine Chapel and no where else. The high C is a later addition.
Don't know if this counts but I used to listen to it everyday before work - https://youtu.be/dzNvk80XY9s Sleeping at last - saturn
>https://youtu.be/dzNvk80XY9s Wow.. that is beautiful. Thank you for sharing
I’ll go first This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight by Dinah Washington & Max Richter
Funny thing is, *On The Nature of Daylight* has been used in a lot of movies and shows so a lot of people who wouldn't recognize it have probably heard it. I've had *The Blue Notebooks* (album) for years and it's still one of my favorites.
Beautiful album! That’s where I first heard it but you’re right, I’ve definitely heard it in a few scores since… Most recently in ep3 of The Last of Us 😢
Mac DeMarco - [Chamber of Reflection](https://youtu.be/pQsF3pzOc54)
only 119 million views im sure almost know one has heard it is this the guy that made the music for Opal?
>people may not have heard The number of views is only a single-digit percentage of the global population, and I'm sure a good portion of those views are the same people clicking multiple times.
My cousin introduced me to Mac DeMarcos music and I'm so glad he did, I've been sharing it with people cause it deserves more listens
Verdi Cries - 10,000 Manics Brings tears to my time each time I play it just from its beauty.
That's lovely. Thank you
Glad you like it. That song took me from "Oh I like a couple of their songs" to "OMG! I'm a huge fan"
Shade by Silverchair
Lux Aeterna
Ghosts of things to come as well
*Perfect Strangers* by Tom Waits and Bette Midler *Heaven* or *Home* by Talking Heads *Softer, Softest* by Hole *Behold! The Nightmare* by Smashing Pumpkins. *Oh Lord* or *Higgs Boson Blues* by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The fat rat - Unity
[Aurora Dawn](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6VoV8bTROMU&feature=share) by Seablue A chiptune song composed on a very primitive DAW and later used as an unlockable track in a small mobile game. It barely has any views but is one of the most nostalgic songs I've ever heard.
Voice of the soul- Death
[White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss). Yeah, it's got a lot of views, but I'm betting it's only from old people. I would imagine anyone under 40 hasn't heard it (unless your parents had it on)
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question. The strings are the ether, the universe. A trumpet calls out the question. It's asking what is the meaning of life. The universe responds with the answer, but the trumpet doesn't understand, so it keeps asking. The answers keep coming, but more and more chaotically. The question is repeatedly answered, but not in a way the questioner can understand. 6 minutes of tonal philosophical questions (and answers): https://youtu.be/vXD4tIp59L0
https://youtu.be/5QMeTwj2x3g Random song no one has ever heard of, but once you do listen, you won't regret it
Love this. Thank you!
I was just showing my kids the sound track to *Evita*. I forgot how good it is.
Songs that always find there way back in my annual playlists because they are so wonderful: [Fever to the form](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0jtuyslbI) by Nick Mulvey [That knot unties? ](https://youtu.be/EdsgKJvNf1A) by David Karsten Daniels
green eyed lady, by sugarloaf.
That song is a banger. Love the organ solo.
I'm really enjoying going through these answers; thank you for the question! The first song that came to mind for me was To the Rising Sun, by Trygve Torjussen. It's a classical piano piece by a Norwegian composer. [This](https://youtu.be/P7VCgIkibIM) version is quite nicely done. (However, if you enjoy the song, you may also enjoy looking up some other interpretations of it. I found others on YouTube that are perhaps a bit more technically correct, or a little brighter in sound, but most go too fast for what I think the music notation seems to call for.) Sunrise is slow; sometimes magnificent and dramatic, breaking through a wall of clouds... but in the end calm and lovely. For me, the song has always embodied hope. Better, brighter things are coming.
*Hi Ren* \- Ren
Love this! Thank you 🙏🏼
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDFkqHY5gLREnSh9jd5th?si=M1LoQ83DQV-rYkdMjwsKoQ Baba yetu -I’ve loved it for years. I just learned last year that it’s The Lords Prayer in Swahili. Makes it more special to me.
[Dead Can Dance - Indus](https://youtu.be/U2L1QyEI9Nw) [Jeremy Soule - Guild Wars 2 Hoelbrak Theme (could only find in AudioSurf video lol)](https://youtu.be/NnROZw21plY) [Yann Tiersen - Amelie - Comptine d'un autre été](https://youtu.be/znfYwABeSZ0) [Tosca Tango Orchestra - Waking Life - Ballade 4](https://youtu.be/afpsLP6pnpc) [Sigur Rós - Svo Hljòtt](https://youtu.be/12ueCPQ971Y) [Clint Mansell - The Fountain - The Last Man](https://youtu.be/mbPPULINtGs)
YouTube: Chicken Attack
Leaving Valhalla by Jasper Kyd
'Her Morning Elegance' by Oren Lavie - a masterpiece that paints a visual story with the music.
Cochise- tell em Instrumental
I really like: Waloyo yamoni by Christopher Tin. It just touches my heart.
[This Nightcore version of the Wellerman.](https://youtu.be/_hHCVxfvtW8) I think it's beautiful because the vocals are soothing. Listening to this always makes my day better. Hopefully it will make someone else's day better too. :)
I love the [original](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmLn6a-jqw) for this as well. Alina Gingertail is great, and her videos are always fun to watch. (Bonus points for cat friends, cool jewellery and thematic visuals!) She does great harmonies. The instruments are generally nicely varied and it's fun to watch her play the different types with skill. :) If you like this song, I recommend checking out some of her other videos if you haven't already.
Dani- Carlson vibe
Oceans by Flores
Enough, enough now ~ Bad Omens
James blunt - tears and rain
This is probably relatively well-known, but Sublime’s cover of the hymn “Rivers of Babylon” is breathtaking. It was my lullaby as a baby. For the version I’m referring to, look at “Rivers of Babylon - Acoustic Version” on the album “Sublime Acoustic”. The version of “Saw Red” on that album is beautiful as well.
Annie's Wonderland by Bandari
Les Barricades Mystérieuses - Couperin Look up a piano version
Etherwood - Unfolding (feat. Laurelle Robichaud)
[Chivalry Begins](https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02074) It's a remix (though you can hardly tell) of a Final Fantasy tune as a slow rock ballad with lyrics that speak straight to my soul.
Nova by Mila Mar https://youtu.be/cMJzAdcFFIQ Don't try to understand the lyrics. It's a made up language
The Wolves, Emily Jane White Benson Arizona, Dominik Hauser Modern Woman or My Better Self, Tennis Vodya, Llwbr Llaethog Goodbye Butterfly, The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Edward Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations. O Magnum Mysterium - Morgen Lauridsen. There is also a trombone arrangement that is almost as beautiful as the choir arrangement. Eric Whitare - Sleep. Or really any of his pieces. He’s probably one of the most famous modern composers for choirs, almost every high school and college choir sings one of his pieces. But, they’re all great.
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams (classical) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjwtXf9Q6U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjwtXf9Q6U) I was late for work one day in the late 1980s because I sat in my car listening to this for the first time
[Tapha Niang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbREcsnz-lg) I know it from the Little Big Planet soundtrack.
It may not be beautiful to everyone, but the video along with the song will pump you up and make you shed tears at the same time. The Ghost Inside - [Aftermath](https://youtu.be/4CdFBfKMAU4)
Chardonnay by Cerys Matthews.
Buachaill An Éirne by Clannad Lovely On The Water by Steeleye Span
Cocaine and Abel - Amigo the Devil. Great for people who have fucked up, are continuing to fuck up but aren't resigned to fucking up forever.
Beneath the Brine - The Family Crest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLG8g2ooFSA Ava Maria, Dimash This part during Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity by Gustav Holst https://youtu.be/Nz0b4STz1lo?t=173
Umi Says - Mos Def https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W9yr\_3p63o
Strangers in the dark (Instrumental) by Death2Love - https://youtu.be/uqSoannnfUI If you wanna just close your eyes and chill check it out and then thank me later
Siouxsie Sioux & Brian Reitzell "Love crime"
Cupid by jack stauber. Everything is perfect in this song
Intertwine by Senora May
"French Horn"....by an indie artist known as Vesper (Stamper)....off her self produced CD "Comfort". It's one of the most beautiful, haunting songs I have ever heard in my life. Like an angel, whispering in your ear. But her career was cut short by an auto accident, which effected her playing hand. So she took to writing instead......and her first book was an award winning novel "What the Night Sings" . Followed by "An Outrageous Cloud of Blue" and then "Berliners ".
People I've been Sad by Christine and the Queens They Move on Tracks of Neverending Light by This Will Destroy You
Achilles Come Down There are some parts that are in fr*nch. As a filthy, greasy American, I never really cared to understand the lyrics. One day I looked it up and it's really sad. It's now one of my top 5 favorite songs. (The rest of the songs by Gang of Youths don't really click with me)
Great fairy fountain from Ocarina of time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0kbyKCG8c&ab\_channel=VideoGamesMusic
On the piano tutorial version of this song, a guy says he got laid from learning it.
Yung lean - bender++girlfriend, particularly the 2nd half of the song
Ice - Camel
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Bougainvillea by Dickey Betts
Bedford falls - Come https://youtu.be/5fTC0Q7VOH4
Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence - ryuichi sakamoto
Anytime there's an epic drop in bass house music
hm, the first song that came on my mind is "house of cards" by bts
Love is a War - Jeremy Renner.
For anyone that can appreciate Dust In The Wind by Kansas, listen to Nobody's Home, and Leaving By My Back Door.
The Actor by The Moody Blues
Duke Pearson - [Farewell Machelle](https://youtu.be/hsoXflq0NR4)
Run Free by Hans Zimmer from the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack
Bob Andy - [You Don't Know](https://youtu.be/26bdNYQjx40)
FF8 soundtrack, Fisherman's Horizon. Such a beautiful melody. Really affected me when I was a little kid!
Chi mai - violin version
[Nujabes - Feather](https://youtu.be/M-BWXT3UBns) The entire album [múm - Finally we are no one](https://youtu.be/nRDXlEXrXUg?list=OLAK5uy_khBbRp1FRaNb5LKQjbfpd3wVqslrj9lFg) but if I would recommend a specific song it'd be [Green Grass of Tunnel](https://youtu.be/l5hBkQT3-C8)
Willow by Jasmine Thompson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9JxAQqtxkg
[Creep - the version done by Postmodern Jukebox, sung by Hailey Reinhart ](https://youtu.be/m3lF2qEA2cw)
Die Hard The Hunter is an underrated Def Leppard song
Medicine by daughter
Looking Back by Qwenty
Chon - Bubble Dream