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    Posted: September 30 2017 at 22:56
I can't get past this beautiful melody with the oboe from Bolero from Crimson's Lizard album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC4KoQW9axw&t=5m39s

Please help recommend some other songs/tracks like that.  Also, the closing section of Gracious' Super Nova = simply wonderful as is their song "Heaven".

I'm hungry for more moments like that.  Please feed my fat belly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 10:51
I knew exactly what moment you're talking about even before opening the video. I agree, one of the most beautiful melodies in prog (and to my ears sounds like it later inspired the opening melody of Starless).

Here are another couple of songs that give me the same sort of impression:

Camel - Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
Caravan - L'Auberge du Sanglier/etc. (The opening gives the same sort of haunting feel, and the orchestral buildup closer to the end is more along the lines of the Gracious sample you shared, but with a spacier mood)
Gotic - Historia d'Una Gota d'Aigua (The last half of this song is another gorgeous symphonic buildup)
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles (A lot "brighter" than the King Crimson one, but still has some gorgeous flute melodies)
PFM - Dove... Quando..., Pt. 1
PFM - Appena Un Po 
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Sogno, Risveglio E... (Highly recommended that you listen to the whole Quella Vecchia Locanda album, actually; makes the ending even more powerful in contrast)

And a couple of other examples from King Crimson themselves:

King Crimson - Prelude: Song of The Gulls/Islands (If you aren't familiar with the Islands album yet, I'd advise you to give it a listen. It seems that Lizard fans and Islands fans tend to go hand in hand)
King Crimson - Exiles 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 12:28
A. Roussel - Le Marchand de sable qui passe Op. 13


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZlVWvPo3k
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 15:39
Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield
Sommerabend by Novalis
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 15:51
MARILLION hold many, beautiful prog moments. Rothery's lead in This Strange Engine is just pure bliss.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2017 at 14:59
Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

I knew exactly what moment you're talking about even before opening the video. I agree, one of the most beautiful melodies in prog (and to my ears sounds like it later inspired the opening melody of Starless).

Here are another couple of songs that give me the same sort of impression:

Camel - Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
Caravan - L'Auberge du Sanglier/etc. (The opening gives the same sort of haunting feel, and the orchestral buildup closer to the end is more along the lines of the Gracious sample you shared, but with a spacier mood)
Gotic - Historia d'Una Gota d'Aigua (The last half of this song is another gorgeous symphonic buildup)
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles (A lot "brighter" than the King Crimson one, but still has some gorgeous flute melodies)
PFM - Dove... Quando..., Pt. 1
PFM - Appena Un Po 
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Sogno, Risveglio E... (Highly recommended that you listen to the whole Quella Vecchia Locanda album, actually; makes the ending even more powerful in contrast)

And a couple of other examples from King Crimson themselves:

King Crimson - Prelude: Song of The Gulls/Islands (If you aren't familiar with the Islands album yet, I'd advise you to give it a listen. It seems that Lizard fans and Islands fans tend to go hand in hand)
King Crimson - Exiles 

Nailed.  Guilty as charged.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2017 at 15:04
The entire Moonmadness album by Camel is one, beautiful Prog moment !!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2017 at 09:38
I posted this yesterday in the NOvalis/Hoelderlin thread, and will keep posting it till somebody acknowledges its beauty besides me!  Its lead instrument is not an oboe but a German traditional folk instrument that sounds oboe-ish




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2017 at 11:25
Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

I knew exactly what moment you're talking about even before opening the video. I agree, one of the most beautiful melodies in prog (and to my ears sounds like it later inspired the opening melody of Starless).

Here are another couple of songs that give me the same sort of impression:

Camel - Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider
Caravan - L'Auberge du Sanglier/etc. (The opening gives the same sort of haunting feel, and the orchestral buildup closer to the end is more along the lines of the Gracious sample you shared, but with a spacier mood)
Gotic - Historia d'Una Gota d'Aigua (The last half of this song is another gorgeous symphonic buildup)
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles (A lot "brighter" than the King Crimson one, but still has some gorgeous flute melodies)
PFM - Dove... Quando..., Pt. 1
PFM - Appena Un Po 
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Sogno, Risveglio E... (Highly recommended that you listen to the whole Quella Vecchia Locanda album, actually; makes the ending even more powerful in contrast)

And a couple of other examples from King Crimson themselves:

King Crimson - Prelude: Song of The Gulls/Islands (If you aren't familiar with the Islands album yet, I'd advise you to give it a listen. It seems that Lizard fans and Islands fans tend to go hand in hand)
King Crimson - Exiles 

those are all great recommendations.  Believe it or not, I have all of those.  I love the Gotic one you mentioned with the flute solo.   And yes the QVL violen piece - just awesome.   thanks for all of the recommendations from you and everyone else!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2017 at 11:25
Adding to that is the song "Heaven" and "Super Nova" by Gracious!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2017 at 21:58
Harmonium was already mentioned for Histoires sans Paroles, and indeed that song is just one wonderful melody after another, and I couldn't choose which one I would recommend. However, there's another bit from the band that shines just as brightly, and may even be closer to what I understand you love from that Bolero part (which I also love so much), and that's on the song called Harmonium, from their first album: the ending instrumental bit from that one is just beautiful too. Also, Mike Oldfield has many such moments. If you haven't yet, you should get his first four albums, plus the very last one (return to Ommadawn). Particularly, the opening moments of side 2 of Hergest Ridge, the opening for Ommadawn, the last minutes of side 4 of Incantations, as well as many moments through Tubular Bells (particularly on the Finale part of side 1, plus several parts on about the first half of side 2). Oh yeah, and the Africa 1 section from the Amarok album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 08:16
King Crimson's music has always been quite sublime.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 08:25
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield
Sommerabend by Novalis

yeah there is even an oboe part in Hergest Ridge which is wonderful
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 08:39
None of my favorite prog has oboe! Cry Oh, I forgot about Comus! Big smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 09:18
^ must be an evil oboe!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 09:38
Kayak - Nothingness  ( the whole song is beautiful but the second half is the best moment )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLm7fAGPl8s

Kayak - Bury the World ( the oboe part at 2:15 is magical )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMgh7BdRU0
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 09:57
Three Friends by Gentle Giant, mightiest piece of choral and mellotron work ever grooved out.

the outro of Crime of the Century is mighty and the end of Asylum is also a mighty one by Supertramp
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 11:19
Originally posted by progbaby progbaby wrote:

I can't get past this beautiful melody with the oboe from Bolero from Crimson's Lizard album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC4KoQW9axw&t=5m39s

Are you talking about the cornet in Bolero, or the oboe in the very quiet middle section of Lizard (not included in the YouTube link)? The first is very jazzy, the other is rather exotic (almost Middle-Eastern). There's a big difference in sound between the trumpet-like cornet (a brass instrument) and the mellow oboe (a woodwind/reed instrument). Sorry if this is overanalyzing, but I'm a musician!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 13:27
I suppose its not really 'prog' but baroque psych folk.. whatever.. the lp i'm suggesting is 'Songs for the gentle man' by Bridget St John; it has lots of lovely oboe, flute, harpsicord and gorgeous string arrangements as well as beautiful acoustic guitar and Bridget's lovely voice.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 13:57
^You are a man with great taste! Wonderful album by Bridget. St. John.
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