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?

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

Yes, it also turns me into a puddle.

RICHAAAAAAAAAAARD!

sniff

Lux Aeterna and Barber’s Adagio For Strings both used to break me, although now they’ve both been so overused by stupid things (Lux Aeterna and X Factor spring to mind!) that it’s taken the sheen off 😂

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 is a beautiful piece of classical music my parents listened to night after night when I was a child. It made me cry then and still brings tears to my eyes now. It was also the music used in Brief Encounter.

I think I will always associate this music with my lovely mum and dad.

The very first bit of classical music I lived was the slow movement of Beethoven' Emperor concerto. I came home from seeing Dead Poets Society in the cinema, and told my grandad about this lovely piano bit they'd had, and sang it, and he recognised it and gave me the record. It's so beautiful - the way the piano cuts through the strings is just so perfect and sad and it still gets me every time.

*loved not lived. Duh.

Totally understand! To make matters worse my dd is a choral scholar and soloist, I'm a wreck on many a Sunday evening! She's singing a huge solo in two weeks, already bought tissues.

Anything Choral and/or Requiem is written to move - the Passions especially. Mozart's masses/requiem in particular. Similarly Thomas Tallis (especially Spem in Allium). I think most of these types along with Dido's Lament and the sad bits from Dream of Gerontius are upthread.

I didn't see Taverner's Song for Athene mentioned yet. I love that piece.

I also love a lot of single instrument pieces- Bach harpsichord concerto in F minor (second movement), Debussy's Sails, Several of the Bach Cello Concerti.

If you have Spotify or similar work your way through the suggestions and flag pieces you like as you are listening for similar types. Spotify recommendations get very samey quite quickly but they can help to start with and there are also lots of playlists around themes (sea, countryside, choral etc).

Slow movement of the Ravel piano concerto in G. Slow movement of Shostakovich piano concerto ❤️.
Schoenberg Verklacht Nacht. The list goes on, I cry too....

Not so much classical but just adore O Mio Babbino Caro and always shed a little tear
Haven't screamed at it though

YANBU OP

Been crying at classical music for years (I'm now 30). Brought up with classical music.

Elgar definitely very emotive

Mozart's Lacrimosa definitely

Faure's Requiem is utterly stunning

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde gets me very teary

Debussy's Clair de Lune

Oh God and Casta Diva sung by the one and only Maria Callas. You'll know it, it's used on the Jean Paul Gaultier adverts. But it's just so beautiful. The story behind it makes it even sadder.

YANBU OP

Been crying at classical music for years (I'm now 30). Brought up with classical music.

Elgar definitely very emotive

Mozart's Lacrimosa definitely

Faure's Requiem is utterly stunning

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde gets me very teary

Debussy's Clair de Lune

Oh God and Casta Diva sung by the one and only Maria Callas. You'll know it, it's used on the Jean Paul Gaultier adverts. But it's just so beautiful. The story behind it makes it even sadder.

Debussy’s Children’s Corner makes me weep. Firstly because it’s exquisitely beautiful, then because I used to play it when DD couldn’t sleep, then because I found out his DD, who he wrote it for, died a year later and finally because I think I’d like it playing when I die. Still really love it though.

I love a good Requiem too... Mozart Grosse Mezze (spelling) is unbelievable - and Handel Reinaldo