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?

Another who saw the title and came for the Sistine Chapel comments.

Sorry OP!

Sistine chapel was my first thought as well!

If you want a real tearjerker try Dido's lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Extraordinary piece of music.

Dammit I came here to ask about the Sistine chapel too! 😂

Can you recommend some pieces? I know nothing about classical music and have no idea where to start

“Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis” by Vaughn Williams gets me every time.

Yes to the Potter Waltz, it's on my funeral list
Also Albinoni's adagio, but much too poignant for a funeral.

“Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis” by Vaughn Williams gets me every time.

Oh, me too, @daisym00n. I first heard it on that film about Hannah Hauxwell and for me it will be forever bound up with that image of her trudging over the dales.

I really don't know what happened there with my emboldening.

How about a little Lacrimosa?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs

Oh I love the Lacrimosa! And I also love Ave Verum Corpus.

Barber’s Adagio for Strings leaves me with a lump in my throat every time I hear it.

OP, it's normal to feel emotional when hearing particular pieces of music. That's the composer's intention anyway.

Try the slow movement of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.

Or the one that always gets me going - Eric Coates' Saxo Rhapsody.

I love a good requiem.

Mendelssohn’s 6th string quartet makes my heart feel like it is shattering into a million shards. He wrote it as a requiem for his sister and you can hear his grief etched into every note.

Beaten to the Sistine Chapel by hundreds, dammit

It sounds unreasonable to cry at classical music to me. I'd only weep at it if I was made to listen to it but I'm a peasant at heart so not really best placed to comment.

Lux Aeterna and Barber's Adagio for Strings were played at my husband's funeral. I can't listen to them now without crying.

I've always felt a bit ambivalent to classical music. Some was quite pretty, some was moderately stirring... that sort of thing. But I went to the Proms once (a Bach orchestral thing) and oh my god. I was really close to the violins, and I could feel the vibrations through my seat and it was massively emotional. I ended up having tears pouring down my face by the end.

(There was no sistine chapel style wailing though.)

OP, try Allegri's Miserere, preferably in a quiet, darkened room.

The part of Beethoven’s seventh symphony that appeared in the Kings Speech messes me up every time for some reason. And Carmina Burana. And so many more.
I’m a bit of a cynical bird but it’s testament to the power of music

Never ever visit the Sistine Chapel

Haha my first thought too 🤣

Of course YANBU. Music is sublime for hitting you right in the emotions.

I feel sorry for people who aren’t moved by music.

Hahaha yep I was going to say don’t, whatever you do, visit the Sistine Chapel!

I expect that’s got very old by now...

Also came to comment about the Sistine chapel

Lots of Einaudi moves me to tears!

OP I am with you....music stirs my soul like nothing else....big bands..choirs and classical all reduce me to a weeping mad woman....