AIBU to keep crying at beautiful classical music?

[MrsPatrickDoyle]

NC.

I'm 51, DC at university, I hate my empty nest and I'm menopausal. That's just for context. On the plus side, DH and I have reinvigorated our sex life. Wayyy-hayyy!

I came to classical music late in life and I can't get over how beautiful some of it is and I can't stop snivelling. So currently I am wailing at Beethoven's 7th symphony. Last night we watched Sense and Sensibility and I bust into tears over Patrick Doyle's theme tune. I also can't cope with his Harry Potter waltz. I've decided I want to marry him hence NC.

Yesterday I was driving to work and Panis Angelicus came on and I arrived at my breakfast meeting with red puffy eyes.

WTF is wrong with me?

I'm just here for the inevitable Sistine Chapel comments and I wasn't disappointed

I came hear to post about the Sistene Chapel 😁

I am often moved by beautiful music or singing though. Also it's more filling up, not actual wailing.

Music is supposed to be emotionally moving, that's the whole point of it.

I think that music bypasses the logical mind, and hits you straight in the emotions, so I don’t think you are being at all unreasonable, @MrsPatrickDoyle.

I grew up listening to classical music, was a trained singer, and studied music at university, and I know there is still a world of music out there that I haven’t heard yet, so I know there is so much for you to enjoy too.

I particularly enjoy choral music - I love everything from Tudor madrigals and renaissance church music to modern choral composers like Arvo Part, Morten Lauridsen and Olivier Messiaen.

If you want tear-jerking, I’d recommend the Britain’s Got Talent performances by Only Boys Aloud - an amazing choir of teenage boys.

I only came on to say don’t visit the Sistine Chapel... but I’m late to the party.

Don't go and see Beauty and the Beast (animated version). That bit when the Beast turns into a Chippendale...

OP, I'm at a similar stage of life and find myself getting weepy at music as well

It's all tied up with something that has been identified as 'the tingle factor' and the effect that music has on our emotions.

You're not unusual at all OP. Many people cry over beautiful music. It touches many people on a very deep level. It's part of the reason that the classics have stayed, the classics.

Music is intrinsic to most cultures and peoples. Small babies love music. It's part of the human make up to make or listen to music.

Even animals like music. Playing music to cows and chickens is supposed to relax them and help up production.

One of my cats would come running to sit by the piano when I played and if he heard someone in the house singing he'd be there to drink it all in.

Yep Sistine Chapel here as well.

Part of Mahler's Fifth was used in the death scene in the film Death in Venice. I sob whenever I hear it.

Elgar makes me cry.

My mother was very into classical music and many of her favourite pieces make me cry too.

Music makes us feel. It's a wonderful thing.

Poor Mahler. He had a very unfaithful wife, which is why most of his music is very emotionally charged.

I feel you. I can’t watch a good balletwithout turning into a snivelling wreck. It’s music to move the soul, it’s not you.

Ludovico Einaudi's pieces get me every time.

Damn, I clicked on this hoping it was the Sistine Screamer. Patrick Doyle has a lovely song from The Little Princess called Take my heart. Gets me every time!

Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz is another one.

Silvercuckoo, completely agree with you re Elgar cello concerto, especially the du Pre/Barenboim thing. My parents loved them and saw them perform a lot. Both their and my parents lives turned to shit and I remember my mum listening to the cello concerto a lot after my dad's death when I was small. It's very haunting, like a theme tune for broken dreams and tragedy and I struggle to listen to it.

I regularly get tears in my eyes at the ballet or listening to classical music, I don't think it's that unusual.

Mind you, I also get tears for marathons which even I think is a bit strange

@redexpat: thanks so much for posting that link - it was beyond sublime! One of the most stirring renditions of Nimrod I’ve ever heard.

That version of Lux Aeterna is magnificent. I get chills when, after the long pause, the voices come back stronger and that last long note sounds like an organ, not 8 voices! I think I actually prefer them to a version with strings.

Another Sistine Chapel spotter here too!

Have you seen the film, The Pianist, OP? That will make you cry buckets.

And re the Sistine Chapel you should cancel the cheque.

Is this the Sistine chapel lady?

No it isn't! 😆