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

Just want to know from a lot of DIFFERENT people - What piece(s) moved you so much that it sent real tears down your cheeks - or is everyone made of stone ??

Mine in Correct Order

Mozart: Requim
Beethoven: Symphony No.9: Mov. IV
Berlioz: Requim
Verdi: Requim



Akhil G.

Well no pieces have broken this stone.
But I am usually overwhelmed, with most good pieces.
Like Mahler's 2nd
Hindemiths Symphony in Bflat
Beehtoven symphony N.6 N.7
Mozart's Jupiter symphony?
Michael Torke's Green
Mahler's 6th
Richard Strausses tone poem Death and Transfiguration. (Tod und Verklarung)
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Dvorak's 9th
Tchaikovsky's 6th
Arvo Part's 1st and 2nd and the end of his 3rd
One of Chopin's Nocturnes Cminor n.1?
Scherzo in Bminor
Brahms Symphony n. 3 or 4
A few Beehtoven Sonatas.
Frederic Rzewski's improv with Joel Hoffman and this guy with curly grey hair who's name I can't remember played and tore an accordion apart.

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music

A lot of pieces have at some point, actually (though none of them consistently)...

Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
Elgar, Symphony No. 1
Borodin, Symphony No. 2
Haydn, Symphony No. 44 "Trauer"
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
R. Strauss, Horn Concerto No. 1
Rheinberger, Piano Concerto
Bruch, Scottish Fantasy
Brahms, Horn Trio
Schubert, Cello Quintet
Brahms, Clarinet Quintet
Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 2
Schumann, Piano Quintet
Brahms, A German Requiem
F. Strauss, Nocturno for Horn and Piano

Hmmm... i look like im made of stone, i never cried to anything.
The closest i ever got to crying when listening to a piece was my eyes getting a little wetter than usual - and that happend with Tchaikovsky's 6th.... amazing music.

im actually having a hard time thinking of exact piece, although i do cry quite often to music.
i think a certain section in beethoven's 3rd piano concerto sometimes makes me cry.
i cant think what else atm

Here's My Tchaikovsky Sob Festival List:

1:Symphony Nr.6 "Pathetique" (Movement IV)
2:Concerto For Violin & Orchestra in D

My Strauss List:

All 4 last "Songs" or "Lieders" - Only for the reason that It was the music that was played at his own Funeral (Apart from other pieces played at his funeral that is ).

What Human Could Go past "Don Juan" ?? - The sheer joy and Vivacity of the 1st Minute to the heartfelt conversation throughout the rest of the piece.

Akhil G.

Do keep the list comming ........... I must see .... all the different pieces people cry to and then compile one final list and listen to it on a really dark and rainy day ..... I'd really need buckets then !!

I rarely cry to music, the middle section of Grieg Piano Concerto Mvt3 moved me very much though, it felt like flying through the hardanger fjords on some kind of mythological creature... So beautifull.

Well I can't say I cry to music, but I am moved by so many pieces, here is a short list:

Beethoven:
String Quartet No 13 - Mvt 5 "Cavatina" (Closest I've ever come)
String Quartet No 15 - Mvt 3
Piano Concerto No 4 - Mvt 2
Symphony No 9 - Mvt 3 & 4
Moonlight Sonata, Mvt 1

Puccini:
Tosca: E lucevan le stelle (The Corelli recording is my favorite)
La Boheme: Si, Mi Chiamano Mimi
Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo
Turandot: Nessun Dorma

Mozart:
Ave Verum Corpus
Serenade No. 10 in B Major, K. 361, "Gran Partita": Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 21, Mvt 2
Clarinet Concerto In A Mvt 2

Chopin
Prelude in E Minor

Handel
Xerxes: Ombra mai fu

Haydn
String Quartet in C Major, "Emperor," Mvt 2
Symphony No. 44 Mvt 3

Andrea Chénier: La mamma morta
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba

Elgar
Nimrod from "Enigma Variations"

Mahler
Symphony No. 2 - Mvt IV

Terrega
Recuerdos de la Alhambra

I'll just stop there, but there are so many others...

Some more

Mozart - Symphonies 40 & 41
Beethoven - Missa Solemnis
Brahms - Symphony No.1
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Nielsen - Symphony No.4