I would really appreciate any music recommendations for instrumental music (non-verbal if not non-vocal) that inspires very powerful feelings of wistfulness, yearning, dreaminess or sadness...

Since it's only instrumental, the song should not have any lyrics or words. The human voice can still be present, but only as an "instrument" in itself... Pure voice, no words to shape it.

It should also preferably be slow music. Nothing with a heavy or fast beat.

I recently listened to this piece performed by the Madras String Quartet, which is very tenderly, agonizingly woeful... I think it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

The Wheat from the Gladiator soundtrack is like that, too. A lot of Lisa Gerrard's work is, actually.

Please suggest other instrumental music that has moved you in similar ways. It can be of any cultural origin: Chinese, Indian, European, African... Any origin at all.

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Excuse me, but I'm mainly gonna recommend game music. 😮

Hope that doesn't bother you?

01 (I think this has a very wishful tune to it?)

Aerith's theme♥
Terra's theme♥
Tifa's theme~♥

Those are theme songs for three female characters.

Cloud Smiles (feeling when a heavy burden has been lifted off your shoulders)

Anime music:

VII [instrumental] (haunting tune -- even has doors creaking!)

Try and check out the famous SK pianist Yiruma. These are my favorites of his.

River Flows in You
Kiss the Rain

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Thank you, darcyaglow.

I don't mind game music at all, Dr. Love. Music is music... If it suits the mood I'm looking for, then that's all that matters. Thank you very much.

In fact, since you reminded me of game and anime music, I feel that Shadow of Doubt from the Escaflowne soundtrack is very beautiful. 🙂

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तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय
मृत्योर् मा अमृतं गमय
ॐ शांति शांति शांति

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Midnight Sonata (the best)
The whole soundtrack to "Le Portrait de Petite Cosette"
Symphony 25 in G Major (Mozart)

An excellent movie with all of Mozart's classics is Amadeus. I'd strongly suggest it.

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I'd recmend the soundtrack to Schindlers List. Itzhak Perlman and John Williams both worked on it, it's really a piece of art. But the music is incredibly sad and moving (even more so if youve seen the movie)...

You can listen to Perlman play a performance of the main theme here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWVV_GnRIA&feature=related

And then track #8, Auschwitz-Birkenau, which to me is one of the most haunting pieces of music I've ever heard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOy6t6TGAg&feature=related

This would be so much easier if music with lyrics in other languages was alright.

I would point you to Mozart's Requiem (Latin). Still one of the saddest works I've ever heard.
Or, Schubert's Der Leiermann (German). I actually cried the first time I heard it.

Anyway, you should really just check out anything from the Romantic era (circa 1820-1900).

Chopin's Nocturne no.20 in C#minor is very sad...especially, when played by Olejniczak (the movie The Pianist is about him). Most anything else by Chopin. Poland in the 19th century was not the ideal place to be.

Mahler's Symphony no 1 is very "dreamlike." As is Debussy's Sunken Cathedral (La cathédrale engloutie). In fact, most of Debussy's music is fairly dreamlike (he wrote in the "impressionistic" style, named after the art movement).

Movement 4 from Mahler's Symphony no.5 is full of yearning and sadness.
Also, Mahler's Symphony no.6, all of it.

Sorry about that...I was really excited that someone else wanted some instrumental music. I hope that you enjoy these recommendations. If not, then please forgive me.

i personally listen to a LOT of experimental, super chill, ambient style music.

there's this quote: "ambient music doesn't demand your attention but rewards it."

so, to me, you don't have to completely pay attention while listening...
rather, you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the entire experience of the music itself. <33

you really should give these bands a try:

tycho - dictaphone's lament or the disconnect
bonobo - silver
cepia - hoarse
sigur ros - ny batteri or gobbledigook
boards of canada - left side drive or macquarie ridge

hopefully, you might like one... or maybe two. (:

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Soundtrack to a Lost Film by Eternal Morning 😃

Soundtracks of Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume

Music Box Memento: [Arranged Version]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q9qe1yxY8Q

Music Box Memento: [Music Box Version]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0LW6geXpXs

I suggest listening to the Music Box Version first as it is short, just to have a lil taste if you like it.

The first thing I thought of when I saw this topic was Pink Floyd's The Great Gig in Sky

It does have some vocal, but that's only in the very beginning and the singer is more like just saying it and not singing. I was probably not really useful, sorry about that.

also check out: explosions in the sky. their music is beautifully entrancing. (:

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Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano pieces are otherworldly.

So many of chopin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk&feature=related

Symphony 25 in G Major

i like that one too : )

moonlight sonata beethoven :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck&feature=related

Dies irae by toscani :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbMzp86tOc&feature=PlayList&p=3D205CB628E4E6D7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17

mozart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_YSEbAWA0Y&feature=related

vivaldi :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCXjDuYQTA

Well i know it's not what asked but here one vocal i liked when looking in tenor work today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrDfqoYzNo