Best Farewell

The Black Album (2003) is the eighth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, promoted as his final recording before retirement (though he returned with Kingdom Come in 2006). The album features production from hip-hop luminaries including Rick Rubin, Kanye West, Timbaland, The Neptunes, and Just Blaz...

Anodyne is the fourth and final studio album by the American alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, released by Sire Records in October 1993. It was their first and only major-label album. After the album's release and supporting tour, primary songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy dissolved the ban...

Cipriano de Rore’s “Ancor che col partire” is a Renaissance madrigal composed around 1547. This piece, written for four voices and characteristic of Italian vocal music from that era, explores themes of farewell and separation. It gained significant popularity during the sixteenth century due to its...

Finally is Namie Amuro's twelfth and final studio album, released in 2017 as a compilation of new material and re-recordings of her past hits. The album marked the end of Amuro's music career before her retirement in 2018, celebrating her 25th anniversary in the industry. It topped the Oricon chart...

This concert film documents LCD Soundsystem’s emotionally charged farewell performance at Madison Square Garden in 2011. Captured by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, it presents a raw and intimate portrayal of the band's iconic final show. The recording offers fans a lasting record of this signific...

Black Sabbath: The End is a concert film and documentary chronicling the heavy metal band's final show of their farewell tour. Filmed on February 4, 2017, at the Genting Arena in their hometown of Birmingham, England, the performance features original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Bu...

Wilbye's four-voice farewell madrigal from his First Set of Madrigals (1598), notable for its refined simplicity and affective setting of a pastoral parting scene.

Wanna One's only full-length studio album released in November 2018 by Swing Entertainment, serving as the group's farewell release before their disbandment in January 2019.

Jay-Z: Fade to Black is a 2004 concert documentary directed by Patrick Paulson and Michael John Warren. The film chronicles what was billed as Jay-Z's final live performance at Madison Square Garden in 2003, following the release of his album "The Black Album." Alongside extensive concert footage fe...

Dire Straits' 1993 live album documenting their On Every Street World Tour, recorded at European venues during what proved to be the band's final major tour.

“S'io parto, i' moro” is an Italian madrigal by Luca Marenzio whose text equates separation from the beloved with death. Marenzio treats the poem's central contrast between departure and continued presence through expressive melodic gestures, harmonic tension, and coordinated changes among the vocal...

2017 studio album by Deep Purple, their twentieth studio release, initially presented as a farewell record before the band continued performing and recording.

The Doobie Brothers' 1983 live album, recorded during what was billed as their farewell tour, documented the band shortly before their decade-long breakup.

Five-voice madrigal from Monteverdi's first book (1587), reflecting the conservative late-Renaissance polyphonic style of his teacher Marc'Antonio Ingegneri.