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I thought it would be intresting if we confessed to each other about the pieces that have moved us sooo much you just had to cry! either because its so sad or so beautiful...


Heres some pieces that have made me weep

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata esp the adagio, bar 23 to 27 I find always gets me! Its that hunting theme! (even when I was paticing it my eyes started to water a bit! )

Beethoven: Piano concerto No 5, adagio

Beethoven: Symphony 9 and Symphony 6

Mozart: Clarinet concerto in A major (?) adagio

Pachable: Cannon in D ( its just sooo happy! )


Pieces that haven't made me cry yet, but certainly have the potential to!

Chopin: Nocturne no 1 in Bb minor

Chopin: Ballade No 4

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of paganini ( variation 17 or 18? )

Beethoven: Hammerkavier , adagio sostenuto

Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata

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Great suggestions!

I'd like to second Moonlight Sonata and Beethoven's 6th and add Barber's Adagio.

There was an aria from Carmina Burana that used to get me going too.

Van Morrisson "And it stoned me", Bowie "Heroes", Macy Gray "I try". Many tracks from David Gray's White Ladder album as they remind me of a difficult time.

*sigh*

Jan
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Moonlight wrote:I thought it would be intresting if we confessed to each other about the pieces that have moved us sooo much you just had to cry! either because its so sad or so beautiful

Bach, Prelude 1 in C Major
Tchaikovsky, The Swan
Franz Schubert, Ave Maria
Robert Schumann, Einsame Blumen

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You wouldn't have cats but a staffordshire bull terrier.

You would probably have some Speed Garage cds and one of those 'Twice as Nice' cds in your collection... and you wouldn't be on here talking to us lot!

Well, thinking along a more contemporary line, the theme tune for Anna and the King is a very moving piece of music: How Can I Not Love You?

A very memorable one in my opinion.

Celine Dion's rendition of Beauty and the Beast (with David Foster?) is also very moving.

hmm.. music that has moved me to tears:

Barber's Adagio
Faure - Pavane

ooo and opera - especially Der Rosenkavalier.

How highbrow am I??! *chortle*

Lx

I love Kate Bush too! The Kick Inside is my favourite, it's a superb album.

Anyway, I've just realised I missed a biggie off my tearjerker list, it's Isaac Hayes "The first time ever I saw your face". Wonderful stuff.

Jan

Yep, that's it. It's a wonderful song.

RIP Isaac Hayes...

Jan

Chopin's Nocturne in Gminor is the closest that music has moved me to tears, but I think that was more to do with the fact that I was going through an extremely stressed time when I first heard it!

Another beautiful melancholic piece that can almost move me to tears is one called Yamanai Ame (which can be heard here).

Other ones off the top of my head are:
A Silver Mt. Zion - Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky!
The Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
Jeff Buckley - Almost all of the album Grace

Einaudi's "i Giorni" (The Days). I was driving when hearing it on classic FM and I had to stop and just enjoy it. Indeed, it inspired me to take up learning the piano, which I did a few weeks ago after a long absence. I can almost play that piece perfectly now.

'Imagine.' Always poignant.

I also would love to hear an arrangement on the opening melody of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2. Does anyone know of one that exists?

I find Mozart's Mass in C minor very moving - I don't know if it's the quality of the music that moves me to tears or the emotions that are being expressed in the Mass.

The Farué Requiem is also very moving.

And there are two George Michael songs that can move me to tears: (i) I Can't Make You Love Me, and (ii) You Were Loved.

Actually there's a man who's posted a number of videos of himself on YouTube playing classical guitar. There's one that I find exceptionally moving and that's the Prelude in D major by Bach (BWV 1007). It was originally written for cello but it sounds beautiful on the guitar. It's in a major key and I'm sure it's not meant to be sad - but I find it so beautiful in its simplicity that it moves me to tears.

Elaine

Oh and another one HAS to be Rachmaninov's Vocalise