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

Newest addition: Turn of the Screw - Benjamin Britten.

It depends on my current mood really...though there are a few peices that get me every time

Certain parts of Verdi's Requiem. The opening Requiem bit mainly, and the Lacrimosa too. The beginning of the Dies Irae just makes me want to go and hide behind the sofa though!

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Poulenc - The 2nd movement from his Clarinet Sonata

Wagner - The "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde. Truely amazing music

Elgar - Cello Concerto, pretty much the entire thing. Though it only really makes me cry when I listen to a Du Pre recording.

Bach - Certain movements from his Cello Suites can be quite emotional, depending on who's playing them. The Prelude and Sarabande to the 2nd suite are always like that I feel.

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2, 2nd movement

Gorecki - Symphony No. 3. There's this particular bit, about 17 mins into the 1st movement, where the original theme comes back. Even at the very least, it sends massive shivers down my spine.

"A Little Fall of Rain", from Les Miserables - Anyone who's seen the musical knows what I'm talking about...haha. We did a production of this at my school a couple of years ago, and members of the band were still crying on the 3rd night!

Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack/Street Spirit (Fade Out)/Lucky/Fake Plastic Trees etc. They just seem to have this skill at writing very depressing songs, that are also very uplifting.

Well...that was quite a varied list .

"Most people listen emotionally: everything is heard in terms of the categories of late Romanticism and of the commodities derived from it, which are already tailored to emotional listening. Their listening is the more abstract the more emotional it is: music really only enables them to have a good cry."

Adorno

Music is to me a very emotional experience, so I freely admit that it makes me teary when listening to many types of music. Sometimes it's the music, sometimes it's the memory associated with the music...

I think the only time I've cried onstage was the premiere of my first symphony, at the musical climax of the second movement. I had written the music as a "story" just for the purpose of composition, but the work is not really "program music". When we were playing, my mind drifted to the story I had written and it made my cry. LOL I'm such a sucker.

One of my favorite musical moments, though not a tearful one, is Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, movement 4, "Sunset" - the last 40 or so measures always instill me with a wonderful sense of calmness.

Oh my God.

I think I just found the piece.

Prokofiev's Violin Concerto in D Major - Mov. III (Moderato)

When the whole orchestra comes in on the over-the-top (and used to death by film) lush tutti figure I feel like I'm being torn apart.

lol

Chris :-)

The closest I've ever been to tears whilst listening to a piece of music was the first time I heard Contrapunctus XIV. The recording was by Menno van Delft at the harpsichord.

I feel rather strange having confessed that in wake of all these tales of full-blown orchestral scores, crashing timpani, flurring strings and thousand-strong choruses. I didn't cry, because it wasn't really sadness. Music makes me feel emotions that I doubt one encounters by any other means.

The end of Mahler's sixth always sends shivers down my spine, most recently because there's this feeling of absolute dread and doom there that just makes me want to cry, to help the proverbial "hero" out of the mess, but there's hopelessness, utter remorse for what one knows cannot be redone... it is certainly the single most brutally inexorable finale I've ever heard, and I would challenge anyone for a more pessimistically fatalistic end that's as good musically as is Mahler's.

Zetetic: Of course, crying (or feeling such, for that matter) is in no way only caused by sadness. Most of Bach's pieces that are great feature such contrapuntal mastery and timing that it just transcends everything else if played right. Rachmaninoff called it the "point" of the music: the culmination, climax, that the whole rest of the piece must lead to and reach passably at least. If one does so, it's a true experience, and the climax is easily overwhelming. If not, then one may, whilst hearing it, not understand... and consequently dislike the piece he/she's never really "heard." It's a very interesting thing...

I concur with cavatina. Mozart piano concerto 21 mvt 2 but also "Death of Falstaff" by William Walton always gets me in a reflective mood...sometimes tears

smetana's moldau still gets me.

I can only really remember the last piece I heard that got me teary-eyed, and that was James Wood's "Village Burial with Fire".