Music to reduce you to tears

This brings tears of joy, spreading good will and making lives better

guerrilla art attacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmwRitYO3w

The Man With the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush

The surging piano leading into the chorus just does it for me.

Puccini: Turandot 'Signore ascolta ... Non piangere, Liu'

I tried to brace myself when we went to see it at the ENO last December, but I'm afraid that when it came to it you would have thought I'd been peeling a heap of onions...

This version is a live recording from the Forbidden City, Beijing. Sung most beautifully by Barbara Frittoli and Sergeij Larin. (If you don't understand Italian, the language of the libretto, don't worry ... there are Spanish subtitles.)

My favourite recording is the Decca from 1973. In terms of this duet, Caballe at Liu and Pavarotti as Calaf. And of course Sutherland as Turandot. Magnificent!

'Love That Burns' - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
'Little Wing' - Jimi Hendrix
'Chains and Things' - B B King
'Moving' - Kate Bush

Post PG Genesis reduces me to tears, but not sure that is what this thread is about so one of my choices would have to be



and, of course, this

The last scene from la Boheme when Rodolfo learns Mimi has just died and calls out her name - savagely heartbreaking.

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Originally posted by Chillkram:

'Moving' - Kate Bush

Several on "The Kick Inside". What a wonderful début album that was. She has produced some great music since but nothing has topped that one for me.

Joe

Not sure why exactly, but I always get a bit emotional at Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid Live At The BBC and in particular One Day Like This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xaeXnxlM

And ROTF: good call on the Pogues - Band Played Waltzing Matilda

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Originally posted by Joe Bibb:

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Originally posted by Chillkram:

'Moving' - Kate Bush

Several on "The Kick Inside". What a wonderful début album that was. She has produced some great music since but nothing has topped that one for me.

Joe

Agreed Joe.

Mark

Where to start? The best music can and will always trigger some emotion; this is the goal for me at least. I hold music that can reduce you to tears in high regard as it doesn't get better than this. It is profound to know that despite the many hundreds of years that may separate you and the composer you can still connect and relate to the very same emotion they might have felt. The music is the key to a very real emotion deep down where words do not exist. I can be reduced to tears by any form of music, it doesn't matter. If I connect somehow with it, it's basically all over. That may be from Neil Young, Johnny Cash, or Led Zeppelin. It may be from the likes of Palestrina or Josquin Des Préz to Bach to Prokofiev and everyone in between.

Rachmaninov was incredible at relaying emotion. Here is seven pages of brutal turmoil/struggle (the fast notes) with a glimmer of hope reaching out above (the melody). Music in a minor key is especially important to me. This is an example of music that breaks me down on two levels: the emotional impact first and then on a technical level (the amount of human energy required to create and then play this. It is unreal and a video cannot capture what is a stake here but I find this one is very good. Hats off to Nikolai Lugansky!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLDse5R8dQ

Where to start!

When I am laid in earth from Dido & Aeneas - sung here by Janet Baker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

And for something totally different, my partner chose Matt Munroe singing "Softly as I Leave You" for his funeral (he passed away 6 months ago and told me in a letter that this was for me) - will I ever be able to listen to it again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...KTf3o9UM&feature=fvw

Dear Flyme,

I listened to both of these. So very moving.

Not in anyway to compete, but I send you, here, a link to Flagstad singing Dido's Lament as well, as being half-Norwegian myself I naturally enough found Flagstad before Baker.

This is different - stoical, noble, and defiantly heroic singing which is still intimate and so deeply felt.

Please, I hope you can enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQKgfzACq94

Best wishes from George

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Originally posted by Redmires:
The Man With the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush

The surging piano leading into the chorus just does it for me.

A song she wrote when she was only 13, Amazing.....

rutter's requiem
the two sopranos (or is it a soprano and coltralto) singing together towards the conclusion of mahler's 2nd

Thanks GFFJ - beautiful.

Although the entire Symphony no 2 'Resurrection' by Mahler is superb, the emotional climax is certainly found at the end of the fifth movement

Tord's "Tears Transforming" in concert last night actually moved me to tears. Just beautiful.

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Originally posted by munch:

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:
Tord's "Tears Transforming" in concert last night actually moved me to tears. Just beautiful.

Was that concert out doors?

No. Indoors at the Vancouver Performing Arts Centre. We had second row seats. Brilliant.

Hi,

For me among others:
1. Schumann 4 movement from his 3 Symphony -Renania,

2. The original ( not orchestral ) Adagio from Barber's string quartet,

3. The song " Into the west '- from the movie The return of the king- Lord of the Rings,

4. 3 movement 3 Symphony -Saint Saens,

5.Any Symphony by Bruckner,

6. Schostakovitch 11 Symphony, 2 movement.

And many others that I don't remember just now.

Bye,

Fabian

Arleen Auger singing the Kyrie from Mozart's Mass in C major - L'Oiseau Lyre 425 528 2.

Jerimiah by Starsailor chokes me up - especially as it's a true story.

Best regards

rr

Katie Melua - The Closest thing to crazy &
I cried for you.

Regards
Antonis

This hits that soft spot for me every time.






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