The first track is the version we played at Lynne's funeral & has also been played by me many times since. Lynne loved trance music & one of the first tracks she showed me was the Ferry Corsten remix - Some tears, but trying to keep smiling - nice thread, Bobbisox :-)
I had this played at my Mum's funeral and want it at mine. Mum was Welsh and our local rugby club had an affiliation with a Welsh club who had a choir who always sang this. It sends shivers down my spine
We went to the Royal Albert Hall to see the 1000 Voice Welsh Choir some years ago. They were banked up either side and in front of the organ it was incredible and spine tingling
I can never hear Bedřich Smetana's 'Vltava', from 'Má vlast', without seeing every bend and turn of the river, and every ripple and swirl of its movement.
The most well-known recording (and the one that's always played on Classic FM) is by the excellent Prague Symphony Orchestra. However I feel that this performance, by the Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra under Nejc Bečan, is even better at capturing some of the symphonic poem's more delicate tones: