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.

Off the top of my head:
-Get it over with, Rihanna
-'Dil se' soundtrack, especially Ae Ajnabi and Satrangi Re
-Living a Boy's Adventure Tale, Ah Ha
-Le voyage de Pénélope, Air
-Summertime, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

No it's all good now she's 18 and mended well! but we havnt if you see whet I mean. Getting there though, but as parents it's tough as they are your life. Dd was in a coma and doesn't remember much about it so better so. She's doing good.

contrary do not wake that baby

Boulder to Birmingham, also by Emmy lou Harris about the death of gram parsons

sorry loving didnt mean your dd crash was lovely

TSS love that from Matilda.

Gabs of course not xx

Joan Baez diamonds and rust

This version of Danny boy by johnny cash

open.spotify.com/track/4yNMpFnKTB3K8pJaZ2qwTP?si=cTnXStru

Unchained Melody by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( The only version of that song I like )
Everybody Hurts by REM ( when it was used in an anti drink drive campaign in Australia I sobbed like a baby, particularly at the pregnant lady screaming for her husband who was killed by a drink driver when she was given the bad news )

Vanellope, Annie's Song gets me howling every time.

See also 'the letter' from Billy Elliot.

It sound really silly, but when Rapunzel sings "I see the light" from the film Tangled, it always makes me cry...

Agree with most of these
Comptine d'un autre été.

@Teddy1970 ME TOO. It's gorgeous.

Forgot to add You'll never walk alone

Great thread!

Ones that I haven't seen mentioned so far;

• Arrival of the Birds; The Cinematic Orchestra (used in the Theory of Everything)....absolutely love this
• Lux Aeterna; Clint Mansell (used in Requim for a Dream)
• Song to the Siren; This Mortal Coil (used in the Lovely Bones)
• May it Be; Enya (used in Lord of the Rings)
• Now we are Free; Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator)
• The Aviators; Helen Jane Long

I also agree very much with;

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence; Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Hoppipolla; Sigur Ros (theme tune from BBC Planet Earth and my wedding song)
• I Giorni and Nuvole Bianche and Divenire; Ludovico Einaudi

And as a lapsed raver/electronic/trance fan, I also love these two in particular;

• Energy 52 Cafe Del Mar (Michael Woods remix)
• Saltwater; Chicane

I've got lots, but 'wishing you were somehow here again', from Phantom of the Opera really makes me cry. My dear Dad and I both loved that show and used to listen to 'Phantom of the Opera' really loud in the car. Going to see it with him in London a few months before we discovered he had brain cancer is a special memory for me and after he died that song holds such a special significance to me.
Also 'Little Fall of Rain' from les Mis.

Black by Pearl Jam, the pain of lost love

God Save the Queen, I just well up, even worse not being in my own country. Im not even a royalist.

In the Bleak Midwinter along with many other hymns sung at Christmas, I love watching carols from Kings no matter where in the world I am, and get all emotional.

A lot of really cheesy songs from the 70's remind me of family who have all passed away, and my gran always having the radio on.

Jerusalem, so rousing.

'Touch her soft lips and part' by William Walton. Possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever composed imo.

Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Bruce Springsteen's love song If I Should Fall Behind - DP wants this played at his funeral - just cried reading lyrics, couldn't bring myself to play it.

Great thread, lots to look up. Think all my others have already been mentioned.

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

TSSD is this the one that comes on when she's making pancakes with Miss Honey? Love that scene :)

Nimrod
The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended - because I have heard it at so many funerals, I suppose
The last scene of Fidelio

Little Donkey sung by small children, whether related to me or not, always brings a tear.

Likewise, Local Boy in a Photograph by the Steroephoncs never fails to get me, even before I had reason to relate.

And lastly a personal one, The Beatles In My LIfe, we played it at my father in law's funeral. It's a beautiful song and it evokes all kinds of memories and feelings. When I hear it I picture a photograph we found of my fil and mil, pre children, bouncing along the runway somewhere they'd just landed in in Spain. All that youthful enthusiasm and beauty...:-~ (

Fragile by Sting.

Dreams by Cranberries
Fields of Athenry
No One But You - Queen (especially when sung in the We Will Rock You stage show)
Canon in D

I'm glad it's not just me peachgreen..I thought I was being daft!