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Listen to the beginning of "Kwan" from Maurice Jarre's atmospheric score for "The Year of Living Dangerously," and you're going to think you're hearing the same thing, although in the newer treatment, they've emasculated it, taking out everything else and leaving just the beginning.
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I was trying to find something that I had already heard that I felt was nearly identical, and I think the beginning of Jarre's "Kwan" fits the bill -- and they just dragged that part out for their entire piece. I think others are posting music that has a similar feeling (as opposed to the same exact music).
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I personally would nominate Gorecki's exquisite 3rd Symphony, especially the last movement.
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Mark:
And probably the enchanting version of it with Dawn Upshaw (and conductor David Zinman and the London Sinfonietta) that brought that sublime work to the attention of so many of us. (And even cited it a week or 2 ago in another discussion here as a more accessible accompaniment to what Terrence Mallick chose to play during a scene in his "Tree of Life.") I have long included that 3rd movement myself in several compilations I've made over the years for friends, first onto cassette and later CD. Just a few weeks ago I put together a collection of enchanting opera arias for my dentist's receptionist and included that one (if it's a classical work, whether it's the final movement of Mahler's 4th symphony or "In Trutina" from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" or Richard Strauss' "Going To Sleep" from his "4 Last Songs," as long as it includes vocals I usually assign it the genre classification of Opera), and she simply loved it. Back in the days of tape, I was known for my compilations of opera for people who hated opera, and changed a number of minds of people who were convinced that they would never like opera.
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