Which pieces of music do you find really moving?

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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.

Also Days In The Sun from Beauty and The Beast (2017)

Beethoven, Symphony no 6 (Pastoral). All of it. Every single note. Ooh yes me too, Gallico -I find it so uplifting :)

The William Tell Overture by Rossini. The melancholic interplay between oboe and flute in the first few bars is beautiful. Then, without a care in the world, that gentle, contemplative music is swept aside by triumphant brass and strings, never to return !

Meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet is sublime. Also, the first two movements of Gymnopedies by Eric Satie. My favourite.

The William Tell Overture is superb! So perfectly described flo.

Thankyou Vanguard. One does so try .

‘River flows in you’ - piano by Yiruma.

Played at my mum's funeral.

Savvy. Neil Diamond recorded a very credible version of Suzanne on his 1971 album, Stones. Although Leonard Cohen wrote it, ND very much makes it his own.

On YouTube, there is a sequence from Parkinson, circa 1980. It features Larry Adler on harmonica and Itzhak Pearlman on violin. The pair perform an impromptu duet of Summertime by George Gershwin. I'll say nothing more, other than, watch it for yourselves and make up your own minds .

Reverie by Debussy and my live is like a red red rose, both played at our daughters funeral.
Many others linked to films such as Hedwigs theme and swan lake (Billy Elliott)

*my LOVE

Nights in white satin
Sweet disposition
Wings - birdy
Wherever you will go - the calling
You could be happy - snow patrol
Too many. So many could spend all night but I'd be in tears!

There are so many beautiful examples listed here, many of which I already know, and others that I’ve noted.

For me, there’s one piece that isn’t a professionally produced piece of music. I’ve managed to track it down via google. There was an episode of “Who Do You Think You Are”, which followed the story of Natasha Kaplinsky as she found out about her paternal family who were Jews who lived in Poland.

Just those last five words, in the context of WWII, needs no further explanation. Natasha, and her father’s cousin Benny, went to the village of their forebears, to the synagogue where their family worshipped, and probably died. It’s derelict now. Benny sang a short version of the Kaddish.

Sometimes music expresses what we can’t say. Sometimes people sing to ensure that voices aren’t forever silenced.

Love theme from Cinema Paradiso

Has anyone said My Humps - Black Eyed Peas yet?

Following on from PP on the first page who said Yorktown from Hamilton - It's Quiet Uptown.

Why My Humps Fauche?

The Nutcracker Suite: No. 14 Pas De Deux

Someone else mentioned Frank Sinatra's A Very Good Year - that does make me teary too.

kooshbin
I remember that episode, I cried through the end of it.

There is a fantastic TV program called Scotland's music by Phil Cunningham, only seen it once, have never managed to catch a repeat and it doesn't seem to be available on DVD. In the episode called "Love and Loss" Margaret Bennett, a Gaelic singer and mother of Martyn Bennett, a piper who died of cancer, sang the Gaelic lament she had sung at his funeral. It was heart breaking. didn't help that I watched with my brand new ds sleeping on my lap, even dp was struggling to keep his composure

Dogsong 2, The Be Good Tanyas
No Hard Feelings, The Avett Brothers

Elgar's Cello Concerto - gotta be Jacqueline Du Pré though
The Thought Of You by Al Bowlly
Bach's Ave Maria when sung by choir
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms
Myfanwy when sung by male voice choir
Closer by Kings of Leon
Rolling in the Deep by Adele
Suzanne & Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
While my guitar gently weeps by The Beatles

Endless!

Brendani9 I am one of the dwindling number who heard Jackie play the Elgar in concert. What an experience!

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
Pie Jesu
Ave Verum Corpus

Igneo

It's on YouTube

God this is one long funeral soundtrack this thread

I'm not one for classical music, please don't judge my random choices! .

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. I just love the song and the haunting sax solo. I can just get the mood of the person in the song totally.

I'll be seeing you. I'm not sure who this is by, but my Gran chose a version being sung by a female singer and it was played at my Grandads funeral. Even now just typing the song title, I'm welling up. Such a beautiful sad loving ding if you listen to the lyrics (which if course I can't or I'd be in floods of tears).

On a happier note whenever I drove to my IVF appointments I'd play Rizzle Kicks 'down with the trumpets' really loudly on the final 5 mins of my drive. Always made me smile and lifted my spirits so it's my kind of happy anthem.

ding?! song. Bloody random autocorrect.