Instrumental / classical pieces of music to cry to

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The title sounds sad doesn't it! But I mean this in a healthy 'emotional release' kind of way. Keeps me balanced.

I currently have a favourite piece of music that often moves me to tears and very occasionally I like to submerge myself in it and let the tears come.
It's called Shape of my Heart by Michael Logozar and it's absolutely beautiful.

I'd love some suggestions for other pieces like this if anyone has any? I can't keep listening to the same piece over and over again.
Do others do this too or am I a very sad individual?

Gorecki's third symphony - the 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'. It's even sadder when you understand the lyrics. Part of them come from the scribbles of a young Jewish girl caught by the Gestapo - 'mama, please forgive me'.

I first heard it at the Proms in 2013 along with Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony (the Pathetique) and Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs. I was an emotional wreck when I left the Albert Hall that night.

Adagio for strings
Pachabel by canon

Soave Sia Il Vento from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart is so sublimely, divinely beautiful that I can't listen to it without welling up.

There are quite a few others but this is my no.1.

The theme from Schindler's List by John Williams.

Bach's cello something or other. Yoyo Ma's version is particularly beautiful, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason has a lovely version too.

Faure requiem.

On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter is my suggestion

Nimrod by Elgar is very moving. There's nothing wrong with emotional release OP if you don't overdo it, then you can get on with your day feeling better balanced IYSWIM.

Place making

Gymnopedie no 1 - Eric Satie

Brahms Rhapsody for Alto. Actually Brahms German Requiem too. Some of the choruses are just heartbreaking.

Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations

Faure's Requiem.

This is sublime, if a tad too slow in this recording.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y

Posted too soon. Dido and Aeneas: Purcell.
When I am laid in earth.

I Giorni by Ludovico Einaudi

Allegri's Miserere. Chopin's Nocturnes. Any Rachmaninov (he had a knack for changes in the music that flick my "begin shivering and goosepimpling all over and eventually start crying" switch) — try the 2nd Piano Concerto, which the tune for All By Myself was nicked from.

Le Badinage by Marin Marais - this is a wonderful performance:

Allegri's Miserere

Symphonie Espagnole by Lalo

I second this.

Agree with Dido and Aeneas.
A Celtic Lament - John Foulds
Kol Nidrei Max Bruch

And maybe the slow movement of the Bruch violin concerto

The main theme from Schindlers list.
I'm rubbish at links but look for the version 'recorded in Europes largest synagogue' on YouTube - it's quite something.

A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth.

The first few bars of music must be among the most poignant ever written. Especially with the overlay of our knowledge of what was to come for him and his generation.

Another vote for Allegri's Miserere. It's so hauntingly beautiful it makes me emotional.