Teary - Eyed while listening to ...............

I think the lastest piece that made me teary eyed was Rachmaninoff 3rd concercto. It seems to me, when properly played, that the song is very emotional.

I know there are others, but only one is coming to me now.

John Corigliano's Cantata 'OF Rage and Rememberence' makes me burst into tears when it reaches the end. The aleotory part whee the choir is able to intone the names of loved ones that they lost is so eerily heartbreaking... and when the boy soprano sings the opening to the 23 Psalm in Hebrew, gah, I'm a goner.

If you hear nothing else of Corigliano, you owe it to yourself to hear this piece. It's a real tear jerker. That and unearthly beautiful.

None. Though the 'Je souffre, je souffre' moment in the second part of Berlioz's Damnation de Faust, in the Solti recording, always vaguely gets me, and the viola pizzicati in Mendelssohn's Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream once broke my heart. I still haven't figure out why, though, and it hasn't done so since. But I'm an emotionless bastard...

*Berlioz teleports from http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/...ars-14433.html into this thread*

Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette, the "allez rêver d'amour" followed by the "scène d'amour"...


Soooooooooooooo undescribable...

The "allez rêver d'amour" bit is the most powerful for me... Distance... Unreachable joy...

Bah, can't really explain.

well, let me be one of the few to put a more contemporary piece in the list:

the 2nd movement of Elliot Goldenthal's oratorio "Fire, Water Paper"... it's just one of those powerfully emotional pieces, full of intense drama and conflict, and it has a resolution that just tears my heart out.

My own music makes me cry the most. I'm very self-reactive.

I hardly ever cry over music. I do experience INCREDIBLE emotions of joy, longing, tension etc but nothing that makes me actually cry.

For example, I ABSOLUTELY love Beethoven's Funeral March from the Eroica and the Grosse Fugue.

Two of my favourite pieces of music, both which brought extremely intense emotion to the forefront of my listening.

Alas, no crying.

Actually, I just heard someone mention the Rach 3 and I second that as well.

I absolutely adore it. But still, no tears.

For me, the final measures of Mendelssohn's Elijah. I remember driving casually, CD playing, and suddenly ...... the music ... the symbolism ... hit me like a hammer. Sob fest ensued.

Mahler's second (fifth movement) does it for me. I think Debussy could very easily do it were I to listen to more of his music...

BACH'S CHACONNE for solo violin!!! It's like man's greatest imitation of the music God Himself would have written! I come so close to crying almost every time I listen to it...