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For me, there are too many to share but here are a few!
One of my favorite recording's of all time! Never fails to put me in a good mood!
Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony with Leonard Bernstein Conducting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgBtAD5daM&t=785s
Perhaps an unexpected recording is
Steve Reich's Sextet
This piece is played by all friends of mine from the Yale School of Music, and to be honest there are very few pieces as groovy as this one! Extremely uplifting for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgX85tZf1ts
And lastly a purely funny piece:
Mozart - "Leck mich im Arsch" - Canon in B flat for 6 Voices, K. 231 / K. 382c
(Not only the words are funny, but it is actually a very catchy tune! Really amusing to think about Mozart writing this and putting so much effort into it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk&t=2s
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The last movement from Ravel's orchestration of his own Ma mère l'oye - "Le Jardin Féerique" (The Fairy Garden) - rarely fails to lift my mood, and just as often brings me to tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIR2um4zh4
And if I were to name the last piece of music I ever wanted to hear before leaving this Earth... as many contenders as there are for that spot, it would have to be this one:
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Prokofiev piano concerto 3 especially when Argerich plays it....
I'm not sure "uplift" is what most listeners get from it--I just find it so playful, almost bratty at times.
https://youtu.be/BS0SwRoYAW0