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

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending. And parts of his 5th Symphony.

Yes to The Lark Ascending, a very uplifting piece of music.

And yes to Mahler, especially Symphony No 5:-

Very happy for you then, Purple!

Enjoyed that ballet scene from R&J Cruickshank.

How about Swan Lake with Adam Cooper ...

TheFarSide ah yes Bernstein conducting Mahler. The dream team Love love love them both

Not really traditional classical, but Gabriel's Oboe ...

from Brassed Off. Just as my eyes dry the piece finishes and Pete Postlethwaite's character says "and she calls that wobbly" and off I go again.

Ooh if we're going modern Tavener's The Protecting Veil is lovely.

Love that scene in Brassed Off.

I do miss playing in an orchestra. I've played several of those mentioned. The Gorecki especially was very moving Nerf

Not sure if it counts, actually I'm pretty sure it doesn't but I well up everytime Andrea Bocelli sings con te partiro.

I miss playing in an orchestra too, although I was pretty rubbish.

Thank you for these. I have had the day off and have listened to them through the day. It's made me a bit meloncony! I wasn't brought up listening to classical music and thought it was all a bit 'high brow' for the likes of me, but I love what I've heard today.

Also used in Morse...'Laudate Dominum'
TheFar side, Gabriel's Oboe was used in 'The Mission' with the lovely Jeremy Irons.
Mahler, yes, 5th Symphony
The 'Mad scene' From LuciaDa Lamamoor
The St Patrick's Breastplate
The Farside again, I second Strauss' Four Last Songs...used in 'The Trip to Italy' Not that I watch much telly!

Gah. Melancholy. Not meloncony. Sorry.

Bruch's Kol Nidrei.

Another by Jacqueline du Pré.

Thomas Tallis' 'Spem In Alium'.

Welling up a bit just playing it off YouTube over crap computer speakers!

PS I see from the YouTube listing it's been used in '50 Shades of Grey'. I would like to say that this had nothing to do with my selection

- modern and very simple but I love it.

Yes to Lark Ascending, Barber's Adagio for Strings and several others already mentioned.

Oh and definitely In paradisum and the Hebrew Slave chorus.
THere's another one too but I'm having trouble remembering what it's called...

The very end of Mahler 2 and Mahler 8 - especially if you have sung them!

Oh and dance macabre (johnathon creek theme tune)

Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody. Preferably played by Lang Lang.

The piece that makes me cry is the In Paradisum from Duruflé's Requiem - the bit from chorus angelorum... To me it really seemed like a representation of heaven (I listened to it a lot after my granddad died)
Martin Mass for double choir has a similar effect. I like Pärt too.