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?

YY to Barber as well, strings or vocals irrelevant, tissues required!

My my my that Sistine chapel thread!

I've almost died

Lol first thing that came to my mind was the Sistine chapel too!!

Penis Angelicus

CR. Jilly Cooper

Nimrod from the Enigma Variations does it every time for me. 😢

I am quite sensitive to moving music too! This always catches in my throat, bear with it because I believe it's been recorded in a bus or train station but the resonance is stunning

YANBU - I felt like this when hearing Pachelbel’s Canon in D for the first time and so chose it as our wedding song. I know it’s a very common song for a wedding March but I loved it so much.

It’s hormones. It’s supposed to provoke an emotional response but it can be extreme sometimes.

Also, look up Stendhal Syndrome - the nurses in central Florence see weeping, wailing, fainting tourists all the time!

In fact this is a bit of a better version

Have you seen Somewhere In Time? (Don’t, in your state it may kill you). I can’t listen to that Rachmaninov variation without it ripping me a new one emotionally.

Ohh yes... Somewhere in time...was gong to mention that!

Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, variation 18.

The score to the film, by John Barry, is sublime as well.

I'm a classically trained musician and suffer this kind of thing all the time! Elgar gets me right in the feels, that Nimrod link posted earlier was beauty! His cello concerto when it's du Pre has me in floods.

It's all about the dissonance resolution for me, some chord progressions just trigger my ASMR it's bliss!

Try Schubert's double cello quintet. It's a corker for the feels.

I can't see anywhere WHY there are the Sistine chapel comments. Clueless!

And also this Tchaikovsky - I would have it at my funeral lol ((but I fear it's a bit "much" for a crem!!"

Grass you need to go to the thread linked a few posts in

Screaming in the Sistine chapel should be a song surely...much like that crying at the discotheque song

Quite new to MN (clutches pearls) but have now spent the entire evening reading the Sistine Chapel thread.

I moved on to the "Beatboxing" thread, which was vastly superior in terms of sheer insult value and entertainment.

Am going to bed now. Will catch up with all the other MN Classics first thing in the morning.

DH keeps asking me what I'm DOING on the laptop. He went to bed hours ago in despair.

Thinking of starting an AIBU about spending time on NMs reading old threads.

Unless there's one already....

Damn it, you're 5 pages in. How did I think I would be the first to mention the Sistine chapel!?

Ave Maria does it for me.

@MrsPatrickDoyle I’ve found myself listening to a lot of Classic FM recently (baby likes it in the car) and had a little weep to Spiegel Im Spiegel the other day...

Plenty of music moves me to tears. Not really classical stuff though.

I adore the John Barry theme music for a film version of Jane Eyre

To whoever posted the link to Lux Aeterna- that was so beautiful, thank you.

For me this makes me cry everytime, Lindiwe Mkhezie whenever she sings, I feel as though my ancestors and family members I have lost are speaking directly to my spirit. It's so weird. Music reaches places nothing else can, and speaks a language words can't express.

I chose this piece of music to be played at my father’s funeral in December. Simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4pzdzM3WMTo

Sometimes music, books, films etc make me cry. I try to keep it as tears in corner of eyes which can be discreetly wiped away. It's usually because I'm going through stuff and I'm very sensitive to what I expose myself to.

And I wanted to bring up the Sistine chapel