Lux Aeterna by Edward Elgar
Lux Aeterna lifts you up by the soul.
It’s music with the wow factor from the very first chord and I get goose bumps every single time that I hear it.
Here are 3 minutes and 47 seconds during which it’s plausible to believe in a heaven - and in the human spirit for sure.
The version on You Tube here has some rather cheesy-seeming clips at the start (though it gets better, I think, and then grows cheesy again), so if the piece is new to you, you might like to listen to it with your eyes closed or just daydream through it.
I don't think you'll find it hard to daydream.
I have the version in this cop-out best-of choral collection here, which is worth a bob or two in any money, and listening to which I often draught my posts for TJ.AT.
Which might explain a thing or two…
It’s a choral version of Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma variations.
