What piece makes you CRY?

[jhon]

What piece makes you CRY, either when playing or listening to it?

Here's mine:

BACH-GOUNOD: "Ave Maria"
BEETHOVEN: Arietta from (last) Piano Sonata, Op.111 
CHOPIN: 1st Ballade
RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess

I'll add later...

[JCarey]

Ahhh, the ending of the Rach 3... absolutely beautiful. And then there is the Godowsky Sonata, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, The "Organ" Symphony by Saint-Saens, and I sometimes cry when I play Liszt's sonata, but I always feel so refreshed afterwards.

[thalbergmad]

Godowsky-Saint Saens-The Swan.

Floods of tears

[hodi]

rachmaninov - 2nd piano concerto
schumann - piano concerto
chopin - first ballade
tchaikovsky - june from seasons

[Jacey1973]

Debussy - Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune

Tchaikovsky - the scene from Swan Lake (a duet for violin and cello) when Prince Siegfried and Odette dance together

Bach - 2nd movement of 3rd sonata for cello and piano

Chopin - Nocturne in C# minor

Tchaikovsky - 1st mov't of 6th symphony

Tchaikovsky - 1st mov't of Violin concerto

Bruch - 2nd mov't of violin concerto no. 1


Will probably think of more later...

oh..can't believe i nearly forgot:


Britten - War Requiem during the...

Ending - From the "Let us Sleep now..." in Libera me when you have the main choir going up and down scales, with soprano, bass (or baritone?), tenor, boys choir, full orchestra, chamber orchestra and organ) it's soo powerful (i sang it in choir last year and it's the best concert i've every been involved in, just standing in amongst all those singers/instrumentalists - there were literally about 350 of us, amazing - i actually couldn't sing at one point cos i thought i was going to cry).

Plus the choral acapella ending of the Requiem Aeternam and Libera me are so moving, the textures/harmonies are wonderful - give it a listen!

Love the Agnus Dei too although it makes me cry 

I think what makes the War Requiem all the more sad is its subject. If you read the poems by Wilfred Owen alone they are sad enough,when you hear the poems set to music they become all the more poignant. Britten had the idea of bringing in a boys choir to represent the young boys who gave their lives to WW1. Their choral parts are often eerie sounding (enhanced by their high pitch), as though they are singing from the dead, like restless spirits. I think Britten originally wanted the boys choir to be off stage from the other ensembles to give a feeling of distance.

[shasta]

*Leslie's Cape Breton Lullaby
*Bach's Bist Du Bei Mir
*Pergolesi's Stabat Mater (Quando Corpus Morietur)
*2nd movement of Chopin's E minor concerto
*The Adagio from Mozart's "Gran Partita"
*A little spanish lullaby my father used to sing to me

[rob47]

2pac - Changes
Aerosmith - 'Don't want to miss a thing' from Armageddon


possibly because they have a mental association with breaking up with girlfriends.  Come on, everyone makes the mistake of playing sad music when they break up.  But it only makes things worse.
 

oh and also, pathetique second movement used to.  Or at the last summer Olympics in teh two man rowing thing, when that guy from germany (i think), his teamate had died earlier in the season, and he was wearing the armband to honour him, and then it looked like he wasnt going to win but adrenelenasized his way through and won it?  well when they showed it in slow motion i cried. hahahaha.

And also rach prelude op.2 no.3  But thats a differnet sort of crying. 

[llamaman]

No pieces make me cry. Pavane for a Dead Princess, and The Swan (Carnival d'animaux) make me sad though. I would have had a lot of trouble if Ave Maria made me cry though. I had to play that on the piano for mass.

[Teddybear]

Respighi - Pini di Roma.

T

[apion]

Tchaikovsky - 1st mov't of 6th symphony

Bruch - 2nd mov't of violin concerto no. 1

Ditto.  I'll add the 1st mvt of Brahms VC when performed with intense emotion.

[6ft 4]

The faure requiem - the sanctus with the high violin is incredibly moving.

[ako]

Any "romantic/touching" piece can make me cry when done well...I guess I cry a lot. Some specific examples...

1. When I'm practicing the Schumann/Liszt's Widmung, I'd cry and had to stop to wipe my face before continuing sometimes.

2. When hearing my friend sing her soprano solo in Liverpool Oratorio written by Paul McCartney.

3. Sacred music such as "Spriti Song", "As the Deer", etc....

[pies]

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[exigence]

Modern: the score to K-19: The Widowmaker.

Classical: doesn't make me cry, but is definitely saddening:

-Albinoni, Adagio in G minor
-Bach, Chaconne from Partita #2, D minor - that solo violin is amazing
-Tchaikovsky, a couple of parts from the 6th - I haven't listened to that in forever...
-Chopin, Nocturne in C minor (more moving than "crying" music)

-Schumann, Traumerei
I have the "Horowitz in Moscow" DVD, and I almost tear up myself watching that crowd of Russians do the same.

The end of Immortal Beloved at/around the 9th premiere is pretty touching, too.

[steinwayguy]

First piece was Horowitz's Traumerei

Since,

Chopin 1st Ballade
Beethoven Hammerklavier, Adagio Sostenuto
Beethoven 111, Arietta
Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto, end of the third movement
Schubert D.960 (Claude Frank live, oh   my   God...)

[Kassaa]

First movement of Rach3, after the first theme comes back and modulates. THat's is such a HUGE climax.

When I first listened to Liszt's Romanesca, I almost cried.

[quantum]

The end of Immortal Beloved at/around the 9th premiere is pretty touching, too.

Deffinately that. 


Beethoven Op. 111

Chopin Sonata No.3 - 3rd mvt. 
Concerto in F minor - 2nd mvt. 

[rob47]

 Ican't believe this blatant lying!!! You all cry to Aerosmith at some point in your life..who are you kidding?

[Nightscape]

Some people here cry to Aerosmith, others just cry at them.

[vaiva]

A piece alone can't make me cry.  I have to be in a bad/down mood in order to reach tears while listening to a piece.  But that has never happened. 
I guess I'm a very happy guy.

it's almost the same to me. Usually i don't cry. Of course, there are a lot of pieces that influencing me a lot, that make me sad, make me to think in high substances, make my hart beat very often.
i cry just in special cases, influenced by my life's events.
and i don't guess, if i'm happy or not.

[Siberian Husky]

Roberto FortySehven i feel you on that 2pac changes...those piano chords in the begining just scream "re-evaluate your life"

"wake up in the mo'nin n i ask myself
is life worth livin should i blast myself?"

but uhhh...

-Chopin prelude no 20..i want this played at my funeral


PS: Dear Chinkface roberto...did you ever come across that Asian parody of 2pac changes?..that "Got rice?" one?

[pseudopianist]

I get really emotional so I have quite a few pieces

Chopin:

Ballades 1,4
Preludes 4,15,24
Etudes 10/3 (When Cortot plays this piece... WOW),25/1,25/7,25/5
Nocturnes 62/1,9/1,9/2,48/1 Almost everyone
Piano concerto 1 and 2

Liszt:

Sonata in B minor

Scriabin:

Prelude Op 11/11


Bach:

WTC Fugue in B major Book 2
Air - Orchestral suite 3
Concerto in F minor (The famous Largo movement)


And much more.

[minimozart007]

To name a few:

Beethoven's Op. 96 Violin Sonata
Chopin's Op. 36 Impromptu
Bach's P+F No. 13 from WTC bk 1
Bach's P+F No. 24 from WTC bk 1
Bach's P+F No. 22 From WTC bk 1


I must confess the C# minor fugue from that book is emotionally stunning.  However, it is not the type of piece that makes me cry.  It does make me commit suicide ( oh wait why am i still here ).

[Goldberg]

I was really overwhelmed the first time (and the subsequent 15 times after that, in a row) I heard Schoenberg's "Survivor from Warsaw" piece a few months ago. I had never heard anything even remotely similar to it!

But, yeah, pretty much if I'm in the right mood, almost anything can put me on the edge, though it's rare that I actually cry. Other examples might include parts of Durufle's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture and "Siegfried Idyll," parts of Bellini's "Norma" opera (for instance, the closing section) and also parts of some of Mahler's symphonies, like the final moments of the 9th. There are thousands of other examples, though, because as I said it mostly depends on the mood to start out with!

[Dazzer]

rach Vocalise. 

and mvt 1 of rach fantasie-tableaux 2pianos.

[Bouter Boogie]

Chopin piano concerto nr. 1 - 2nd movement
Mozart piano concerto nr. 21 - 2nd movement

[nicolo]

Crying is strange with me.  The strange part is that little things in music & sports can make me cry and more strange is ... and not too much else can.
Here's a strange one & I would love to know if this type thing has ever happened to someone.  Chopin's Etude 25/11 with it's very tender poetic name....Winter Wind.  Usually when I hear this, I get moved, blown away, frozen by the drama....but never tears as it's not that kind of peice right?  Well the other  as soon as it opened up into the forte, I completely lost it...out of nowhere.  And I know what it was....not that I needed to be practicing it for an hour prior to hearing the CD but that helped, since I was as 'close' to the peice as I could get. 

Regardless, the reason I completely lost it was because ... it was at that moment when the forte ripped through the room that I was able to actualize the full talent of a musical genius, operating at the highest level... an absolute masterpeice, that for one moment in time, has revealed itself fully to me.  Normally I just glimpse the work I guess, even though I don't think I'm just getting a glimpse, but when that happens, it's a whole different experience.  And this can happen with any composer.....dunno about Aerosmith though

But a normal answer that I don't think was mentioned.  The 18th Varriation by Rach as I don't hear that much Paganini in there!  And of course when the orchestra picks up the melody it's to die for, but my favorite part is a single chord and it's 5 note lead in.  A single A flat major chord minus the sounding of E flat, preceeded in right hand by The melody modulates to an A flat major chord minus the sounding of E With Ab in the bass preceeded by (Ab - Ab - G - Ab - Bb).  I like Kappel in this better than even the maestro himself.  Kapell & NY Philhm  Rodzinski - 1945 just killer.

[6ft 4]

Beethoven op.109 3rd movement main theme ofcourse!!!

Also 2nd movement of Beethoven's op.2 no.1

[jhon]

What piece makes you CRY, either when playing or listening to it?

Here's mine:

BACH-GOUNOD: "Ave Maria"
BEETHOVEN: Arietta from (last) Piano Sonata, Op.111 
CHOPIN: 1st Ballade
RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess

I'll add later...

More...

Traumerai
Londonderry Air
Paganini Rhapsody 18th Variation
Autumn (Chaminade)
Elegy (Faure)

[steinwayguy]

More...

Traumerai
Londonderry Air
Paganini Rhapsody 18th Variation
Autumn (Chaminade)
Elegy (Faure)

Is that the Elegy for Cello and Piano?

[mikeyg]

The "Ballade of fallen angels" from Cowboy Bebop episode 5

[Teddybear]

Respighi - Pini di Roma.

I remembered another one: Bach Violin Concerto in a minor BWV 1041, 2nd movement. If it's played by an ultrasuperb violinist it beats the crap out of everything else Bach ever wrote. Imho.

T

[mikeyg]

here is a link to the song, if anyone is interested

[AvoidedCadence]

I agree with the people who said you can't just turn on/play the music... you have to be in the right mindset already.  That said:

Scarlatti: sonata in d minor op 54 (Horowitz)
Brahms: PCI, slow mvmt (Rubinstein)
Chopin: trio from scherzo of 2nd sonata (Gilels), 3rd scherzo (Rubinstein)
Beethoven:  quartet op 131, fugue op 133, late songs, sonata op 102/1, 106, 109, scherzo/trio  and finale from 9th Symphony (Karajan), missa solemnis
Rachmaninoff:  sonata op 19, 3rd concerto mvmts 1, 2 (Horowitz), Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus
Mozart: several Richter and Horowitz recordings.
Various Italian/German arias and songs.
Ravel:  PC in G, 2nd mvmt (Michelangeli)

[yamagal]

Sibelius VC

Mozart Requiem

Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Rachmaninoff 3PC, 3rd movement

Various opera arias, also lieder, etc.

and lots of other stuff. 

For me it depends not just on the piece, but on the performer.   

[globetrotter]

Well that whould be
Overture "1812", op. 49, (Overture solennelle), Tscaikowsky, the opening strings part...
That would be what Greeks used to call "Catharsis" in art.

Ps. congrats to nightscape128 for his punny witticism! I laughed in tears:)

[jhon]

Is that the Elegy for Cello and Piano?

Yes

[steinwayguy]

Yes

Oh I played that. Absolutely phenomenal piece.

[arpeggiosnake]

Many avant-garde piano pieces make me cry. They sound *** horrible... 

[6ft 4]

rofl yep.....having to sit through a whole Mahler symphony is pretty tragic tbh.

[gouldfischer]

Bach - 2nd movement of the Double Violin Concerto.

[espresso]

Gluck - Melody
Franck - Prelude Choral and Fugue
Schubert - Klavierstuck No. 2 in E-flat
Schubert/Liszt - Serenade
and some other Schubert/Liszt song transcriptions
Beethoven - 2nd mvt from Emperor concerto

[026497]

Chopin:  Nocturne in C sharp minor
played by W. Szpilman(A Jewish surviver under Nazi rule)
 

[mlsmithz]

I don't cry easily, although I get most of the way there during, off the top of my head, the last bars of Chopin Etude Op.10 No.3, the transition to major near the end of the Shostakovich B-flat minor fugue Op.87, and the return to E-flat major two-thirds of the way through the Liszt Concerto No.1 (that last one I can't explain).

[Bouter Boogie]

Chopin piano concerto nr. 1 - 2nd movement
Mozart piano concerto nr. 21 - 2nd movement

I forgot to add Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte (Ravel) 

[jonjon]

Oh I played that. Absolutely phenomenal piece.

What part did you play - cello or piano?

[steinwayguy]

What part did you play - cello or piano?

piano.


I forgot to mention,
Brahms - Rhapsody in E-flat, Op. 119 No. 4
Rachmaninoff - Preludes in B Minor and B Major, Op. 32 No. 10-11, when paired together

[rhapsody in orange]

Hmm the opening of Chopin Nocturne Op9/1 (the one in Bb minor)

[jamie0168]

Rach. Prelude Op.32 no.10 in B minor

[pianocrazy]

Chopin:  Nocturne in C sharp minor
played by W. Szpilman(A Jewish surviver under Nazi rule)
 

me too. you must have watched "the pianist".

oh. and the maidens prayer as well, with lots of emotion.