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Which pieces of music do you find really moving?

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Tailypo · 04/09/2017 23:22

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.

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photographyaddict · 05/09/2017 23:22

steff13 Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story makes me sob every time! Fellow Hamilton fans unite! Grin

GabsAlot · 05/09/2017 23:22

up* reading

AmberNectarine · 05/09/2017 23:26

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve. Always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, despite it being in no personal significance at all.

Also, Isn't she lovely by Stevie Wonder, purely because it's the song my dad used to sing to me when I was a baby and the the song he walked me down the aisle to 😊

Dixiestamp · 05/09/2017 23:29

Ooh yes, absolutely agree with previous suggestions of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis, Gabriel's Oboe, and also for me lots of the Star Wars music and slow movements from brass band test pieces. Who Wants to Live Forever, too, Gabs, I agree- hairs on end time.

GabsAlot · 05/09/2017 23:29

I also love Time To Say Goodbye. The instrumental version was playing in Las Vegas on my then new DH's 40th birthday while we were sitting in a lovely restaurant in the Bellagio, watching the amazing fountains ❤️.

@msvestibule exactly what reminds me too when i stayed there

tararabumdeay · 05/09/2017 23:33

Tell Me It's Not True.

Rainbow Connection.

I Missed the Last Rainbow.

But most of all, and all of the above, it's Nimrod.

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Tailypo · 05/09/2017 23:33

storynanny fellow Leonard Cohen fan here! I only know his most well-known ones (Hallelujah, Suzanne etc.) but he's absolutely brilliant.

I'll always remember when I heard that he'd passed away last year :( I was going through a really crap time, and my lovely Dad came to stay with me for a few days to help me out. He switched on the radio in the morning, and we heard that Leonard Cohen had passed away and that Donald Trump had been elected. A crap day all round.

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ClaraLane · 05/09/2017 23:34

Someone was playing I Giorni in the city earlier today and it took everything I had not to burst into tears.

My Way and Time To Say Goodbye both make me sob because they were played at funerals.

Most recently I've found myself crying to Daddy's Little Girl by The Shires because we've just had our first baby. A Thousand Years also always makes me cry because it was our first dance song.

GabsAlot · 05/09/2017 23:35

rainbow connection oh my god how could i forget

love the muppts think it won an award

ClaraLane · 05/09/2017 23:36

Forgot one - Let Your Hold Heart Fast by Fort Atlantic. This was played in the episode of HIMYM when Barney proposed to Robin and it always makes me well up.

StrumpersPlunkett · 05/09/2017 23:37

Adagio for strings will be played at my funeral. I love it and yet it makes me very thoughtful.
My fave for stirring emotions at the moment is lacrimossa played v v v loud.
Love it!!!!!!

Lotsofsausage · 05/09/2017 23:39
  1. Max Richter - On the nature of Daylight
  2. Neil Young - Heart of Gold (from my dad's funeral)
  3. John Smith - Lungs - listen to the end it's INCREDIBLE
  4. Beiruit - Goshen
  5. Emmylou Harris singing the Steve Earle song 'Goodbye' - about the loss of Gram Parsons
Lovingmybear2 · 05/09/2017 23:44

What a great thread op.Flowers

Mine will always be Abbas 'slipping through my fingers' when we though we were loosing dd after a terrible crash abroad and had to fly to see her not knowing we would be in time. Unbearable even now 7 years later and she's good.

And the wealth national anthem played at muns 90th birthday. She's Welsh but has altzimers and lost to us really but her face lit up and she knew the words! We couldn't belive it.

The power of music

Lovingmybear2 · 05/09/2017 23:45

Bloody hell a soggy mess now Sad

AssignedPerfectAtBirth · 05/09/2017 23:45

Mozart's Piano concerto no 21 (esp the first piano solo)

The Smith's - There is is light that will never go out

ContraryLollipop · 05/09/2017 23:46

Liszt - Liebestraum
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Theme tune from In the Night Garden
From Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing

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Tailypo · 05/09/2017 23:47

This is sooo sappy of me but a guilty pleasure of mine has always been Edelweiss from The Sound of Music Blush (and actually Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins as well). Gets me every time.

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GabsAlot · 05/09/2017 23:48

loving bless you lovely stories

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Tailypo · 05/09/2017 23:48

Ooh Contrary I adore Liebestraum. And the Ballade in G minor by Chopin. It was played in The Pianist, and just floors me every time I hear it. Definitely one of my desert island discs.

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Tailypo · 05/09/2017 23:49

Oh Loving FlowersFlowers

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Lovingmybear2 · 05/09/2017 23:51

Totally op now please stop Grin you killing us

Lovingmybear2 · 05/09/2017 23:52

No it's a great thread talking and sharing helps xxx

Lovingmybear2 · 05/09/2017 23:55

Now need to u tube all those unknown songs and music. Smile isn't music wonderful

ContraryLollipop · 06/09/2017 00:03

I have a sleeping baby next to me so can't listen to these suggestions although am itching to do so!
Loving how awful

TSSDNCOP · 06/09/2017 00:04

It'll sound silly, but I love "When I grow up" from Mathilda.