Classical music that makes you cry

[CallOfTheRiled]

Sometimes I hear classical music on the radio that is so beautiful it makes me want to cry (in a good/ therapeutic way!) The problem is, I can never remember them later. I know Adagio for Barber, Strings, and Bruch Violin Concerto, but would love some others. Thanks

Elgar's Nimrod

This is a nice version:-

Can't go wrong with a bit of Strauss's Four Last Songs - beautiful soaring orchestration, full of extensions and chromaticisms that are just so scrunchy your ears practically curl while listening to them:

Agree about Nimrod btw - love that tune. When I was a young and dickish teenager I tried to convince myself that I liked one of the other variations better, just so that I could go against the grain and prove how superior my ear was, but actually of course it really is the best one.

Elgar's Cello Concerto.

(That's just one song on my link btw - haven't uploaded them all - it's the most famous - and deservedly so.)

Yes Nimrod for me too.
Also the chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.
Not classical but the theme to 'White Horses'.

"The Banks of Green Willow" by George Butterworth. Another loss to WW1, lost far too young

Thank you! I'm bookmarking them on YouTube to listen to in peace.

Henri gorecki. I will try and find my favourite.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4

Symphony no3

Agree with Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Handel's Largo.

the Rose Aria from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

By Thee With Bliss by Haydn

Britten's Sea interludes - I'm not actually sure which one my favourite one is, I think it's Moonlight

Lots and lots of Purcell, particularly and

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy8iNUn13M
Every time.

Sorry, another agreeing to Elgar's cello concerto

ALL of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. I am srsly. Just get the complete ballet. It is absolutely gorgeous. Here is the ending, which I defy you to watch without crying (ok, ok, I know you said music, but it's ballet music, so you might as well watch the dancing as well);

Pachelbels canon....my wedding music

Happy tears, I hope, Purple?

I came on to say Nimrod and Elgar's Cello concerto

Yes to Elgar's cello concerto, especially with Jacqueline du Pre:-

Faure's In Paradisum - used in the last episode of Morse

Ooo lots

Shostakovich Symph 5 3rd Movement

Brahms 2 1st movement (so beautiful)

Mahler (all of it!)

Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D 1st movement

Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 final movement.

Copland Appalachian Spring

Mozart's clarinet concerto:-

Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni. You'll recognise it when you hear it!

Yeah defo happy tears. Recently married and v loved up :-)

Allegri's Miseri and the Bruch violin as well.