Classical music that makes you cry

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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

Not classical but this:

If you around on a Tuesday morning, I think at about 11am (If we are within a series of it) you must catch 'Soul Music'. I don't, as I'm always working then. It is NOT always classical music but it takes a piece of well-known music (often classical though) and explores it's significance through a variety of ways. Sometimes they will interview people who have conducted it, sung it or played it but it is always augmented (if that is not too harsh a word) by personal accounts of people for whom that piece of music has a huge meaning.
It NEVER ceases to move me; it's worth catching even when it's not classical just for the beauty of the composition of the programme. I vividly remember 'In Paradisum'.

Right, I have a challenge now. I cannot link as I've looked for the best version of this which I have on CD and I can't find it on youtube.

It is 'Sanctus' from The German Mass by Schubert. (Best version ever is by the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra)

If anyone can come up with what film this music was used for, prob about 10 years ago, I will send them a bottle of wine or similar. I am desperate to find out. I even wrote to Paul Bagoria (radio 4 producer) a few years ago as I'd heard that piece of music on a programme he'd produced. He wrote the lovely letter back saying he didn't know but he had a personal love of it as his grandmother used to sing it to him as he grew up.

It will make you cry.

Really like that Spem In Alium Adam.

O mio Babino Caro by Puccini. Just beautiful and my Nana's favourite too.

So many of these mentioned here but also,
Purcell, Dido's Lament.

Jellycake can't get your link....maybe my PC though.

I think it's my PC as I've just tried to get tonsatting's link and can't.

I'm glad, farside

That particular version was recorded with five men singing each of the 40 parts individually, then layering the 40 lines over the top of one another in the studio. It gives an almost clinical accuracy. I've heard it described as 'having a beat like an atomic clock' . . . depends whether you like that or not!

I do. I've also heard versions where it's really 40 men and boys singing together, and they're very different - though also lovely.

AdamLambsbreath that's amazing! I had no idea the King's Singers had done this - seriously cool. I do love Spem

Clair de lune- Debussy

Moonlight Sonata- Beethoven

Beautiful!

Jupiter/I Vow To Thee My Country. Really sets me off ... but frustrating when played by DD's primary school orchestra, just rising up into that swelling refrain, when it collapses into discord.

For me it's Faure's Requiem Libre Me, Tchaikovsky' s New World Symphony (played it, loved it forever more!)

But Dido' s Lament by Purcell makes me tear up every time

I recently took part in a performance of Ahoy! Sing for the Mary Rose by Alexander L'Estrange.

There are two movements which are very haunting - Lowlands and Full Fathom Five.

Song to the moon from Russalka. Both my grandparents had it at their funerals (one when I was little, one just under a year ago)

And not strictly classical but the Russell Watson/Hayley Westenra version of time to say goodbye. Even thinking about it makes me well up.

I have no idea why I typed the wrong composer! Must have been a loonnng dayy

That was nice Castilian

(Tenebrae. WOW.)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdymTO9F24 Lord, Let me know mine end] (not a great recording)

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So much, mostly choral music in the Anglican tradition though singing it and hearing the kids sing.

Yy to faire is the heaven. However without small trebles sniggering about " in full enjoyment of felicity" please!

This

And especially this

And the hymn that is the theme.

And just don't even start me thinking about the dream of Gerontius. Not only the amazing music and lyrics but it takes me back to performing it nearly 30yrs ago with the university choir and dame Janet Baker as the angel ....sniffle.

pretty much all of Bach. Cello Suites especially. Particularly when played by Yo-Yo Ma