Which pieces of music do you find really moving?

[Tailypo]

Was just thinking about this, and would be interested to hear what you all think.

There are loads of pieces that I find hugely moving. I was thinking back to when I watched Dunkirk at the cinema, and I found the version of Nimrod played on the soundtrack really moving. I (and most of the audience, I think) were crying a little bit by that point. I also absolutely love I vow to thee my country, although I know people think it's a bit controversial. I think it's probably my favourite hymn.

I Vow to Thee My Country and Ode to Joy.

Currently, Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) from Hamilton give me chills and makes me cry. I'm a big sap, though for anything patriotic.

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)

One of the most beautiful pieces of music I've heard is not by a classical composer or something traditional, but by Sigur Ros - the title is Ara Batur.

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Anathema - a Natural Disaster
Riverside - Before
Pain of salvation - Road Salt
dredg - Sang Real

Hence why that's my funeral playlist x

Oh I love Sigur Ros. Untitled 7 and 8 from ( ) are two of my favourite pieces of all damn time!

Time to Say Goodbye. The Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman on. I adore it! That and My Girl but that's my secret favourite song!

Adagio for Strings. I first heard it at a concert when I was about 14 and it moved me to tears!

Highland Cathedral played on bagpipes. It's often played at funerals, and I get a lump in my throats every time I hear it.

Nimrod and Barber Adagio for strings are my two favourite pieces of music.

Gabriel's Oboe from the film The Mission (- I walked down the aisle to it when I got married)
A bit of a cliche now but also 'I dreamed a dream' from Les Mis.

-Nimrod
-the lyrics to This Bitter Earth by Dinah Washington set to Max Richter's On The Nature of Daylight
-The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (since having my DDs)

Ava Maria sung by Andreas Bocelli - we had it at my Mums funeral.

Love theme from Cinema Paradiso

Gabriels Oboe

Pachelbel Canon in D

There are many more

Where Sheep May Safely Graze by JS Bach.
The Lark Ascending by R.Vaughan Williams.
Dat by Pluto Shervington.It was on my 'having babies' tape (1970's)

Canon C

Canon rock sorry stupid phone!

Schindler's list soundtrack.

Bach's Adagio of Viola da gamba sonata BWV 1029 (used in Truly, madly, deeply)
Polognala E Todora (Love Chant) on Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares vol 1 and
Song to the siren by This Mortal Coil
all give me goosebumps (in a good way).
Great thread, Tailypo - getting lots of ideas for music to discover here.

I'm a soppy tart so there are loads, but my stand out ones are:-
The Love Duet - end of Act 1 Madame Butterfly - Puccini
Cello Concerto in E Minor - Elgar

Libera Me - Verdi's Requiem.
When you were Sweet Sixteen - The Fureys - reminds me of my late Mum.
Bibo No Aozora - Ryuichi Sakamoto
64 Zoo Lane theme. 😳 Reminds me of when my DS was a baby. 😍

So many pieces of music make me very emotional, including:

The Last Post

Jerusalem

Land of Hope and Glory

Barber's Adagio for Strings

The music from Amélie

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Silent Night

Calvin Harris - Under Control (It was the first piece of music I listened to after my MIL died, and as I was listening to it, the awful news about missing flight MH370 came on the news). I really like that track, but all the emotions just hit me as soon as I hear it.

Together in a State of Trance - Armin Van Buuren - love this track and used to play it a lot, really loud and was playing it whilst flicking through the tv channels with the tv on silent, when I stumbled upon the BBC news channel and witnessed the carnage at the Brussels Airport in the aftermath of the terrorist attack. Every time I hear it, I can see those scenes and I feel upset and panicked.

And then, bizarrely...

The extended version of the Eastenders theme after an hour long/special episode.

The music from the BBC 24 hour news channel when they put up the 1 minute countdown clock between features or just before a news broadcast.

Beethovens Pathetique Sonata, 2nd Movement. Truly the most beautiful piece of music I've heard, and makes me cry everytime I hear it.

I also cry when my DM plays 'Sheep may safely graze' on the piano, she plays it so beautifully, and it was played at my dads funeral.

Oh, and the theme from the children's show 'Rainbow' from the 80's and early 90's - has me in floods of tears.

Nimrod
Gabriel's oboe
Cavelleri rusticano
Benedictus by Carl Jenkins
To where you are ( G4 version)
I dreamed a dream
Mozart clarinet concerto
Slipping through my fingers Abba
And a few more

My husband says my funeral music list is like a full length concert

Well that was a mistake, just listened to "to where you are" on a YouTube clip and am welling up.

Kintan "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)"

I was going to say that!

It makes me feel too sad to want to listen to it though.