What piece makes you CRY?

[ahinton]

Michael Nyman it was, indeed - and the title given to the music - portentously and preposterously - was The Piano Concerto - to which my retort has always been "but I thought that was by Busoni" (mind you, I also once made a similar remark about The Italian Concerto)...

Best,

Alistair

[pokeythepenguin]

Michael Nyman it was, indeed - and the title given to the music - portentously and preposterously - was The Piano Concerto - to which my retort has always been "but I thought that was by Busoni" (mind you, I also once made a similar remark about The Italian Concerto)...

Best,

Alistair

Maybe it's more like "The Piano"... Concerto.

You know, instead of The Piano Concerto.  Also, I like that piece xD

[point of grace]

it's not that i cry every time i play them, but the pieces that make me feel sad are:
*Pavane for a Dead Princess
*2nd mov. of Grieg Piano Concerto
*Rachmaninoff prelude op. 32 no. 4
and...
*Palestrina missa para el papa Marcello some numbers

[chopinmozart7]

chopin nocturne posthume.
chopin ballade no 1 
chopin fantasie impromptu
mozart lacrimosa
mozart symfony no 20 or 30 i think  

[fhertzbe]

tchaikovsky - june from seasons

Does anyone have the notes for this piece?

I'm surprised, BTW, that Barber's Adagio for Strings hasn't been mentioned in this context. Maybe it's considered too sentimental. But then again, Albinoni's Adagio is sentimental, and perhaps overplayed.

There's an anecdote about Beethoven getting angry with Goethe for crying when he played some of his music at the piano (cited by Adorno somewhere, as being not true but truthful -- crying is a rhetorical effect, not an aesthetic response). On the other hand, who's to make that sharp distinction between rhetorical effect and aesthetic response?

I cried when I heard the Swedish "Fäbodspsalm", at my mother's funeral last spring:

[kelly_kelly]

Anything if I'm in a depressed mood, but especially Chopin (even "happy" major key pieces). And then sometimes I cry because I wish I could play such beautiful music, but I know I can't...

[practice]

It's quite difficult to make me cry. A lot of music has made my eyes watery, but as far as I remember, the only piece that has managed to produce actual tears is Bach's Crucifixus.

[imbetter]

I'm the 5000'th view of this thread!


But back on topic: no piece literally makes me cry

[ahbach]

Well this might sound silly but I cry every time I hear or play the piece       

"All I Ask of You" by Andrew Lloyd Webber.  There are many pieces that can leave me in an emotional mess! 

But that's one of the joys of music, the feelings that it brings out in one's self.

[stucoy]

Dame Janet Baker singing 'When I am Laid in Earth' from Dido and Aeneas.
Jessye Norman singing 'Im Abendrot' from Strauss' Four Last Songs.

[m19834]

"Journey" by Karli.

And to say that it makes me cry is an understatement.

Thank you, Goldy.

[go12_3]

now, I may not use a piece that makes me cry, but there is a song entitled:
"You Raise Me Up".   Everytime I sing that, I get teary eyed.....

[furtwaengler]

Beethoven string quartet op. 132, the Heiliger Dankgesang movement... it the most passionate, emotionally charged climax that I've ever heard.

Oh yes, absolutely! My favorite quartet. I urge you to burn a CD with your favorite performance of Beethoven's op. 132 followed by Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto and listen to it in one sitting. In fact, I love chamber music combined with larger works...Schubert's late G major quartet D. 887 combined with Mahler's 7th Symphony is epic. Also Schubert's C major Quintet and Bruckner's 4th Symphony. If such combinations happened in the concert hall, it surly would bring tears of joy. 

Probably my best answer to the question of this thread would be the symphonies of Bruckner (I dare anyone to come away from Horenstein's LSO 8th on BBC Legends without being utterly shaken by the magnitude of the moment - or Boulez and the CSO in 5 and 9 if you're so blessed to hear it!) most Mahler, Schumann's 4th in the right hands, Furtwängler's Beethoven (really Furtwängler's everything  ), late Beethoven, late Schubert, Feinberg's last recordings, much Bach, Messiaen, Poulenc's Gloria...and way too much more. Shoot, I even tear up in Xenakis's Dikhthas because its exploration of the violin is so amazing. Music is great.

"Journey" by Karli.

And to say that it makes me cry is an understatement.

I don't think I've heard this, or I don't recall it, but I would think it a welcome thing for K to upload some more improvs. She's quite the thinker, and I'd love to know what she's thinking these days. 

[frigo]

Dream of Love no3, F. Liszt
Étude no3, Op10, F. Chopin
9th Symphony, A. Dvorak
Last Spring, from Two Elegiac Melodies, E. Grieg
Komm in die Gondel (don't know if it's correct), J. Strauss (son)
Nessun Dorma, from Turandot, G. Puccini
Piano Concertos no2 and no3, S. Rachmaninov
None But The Lonely Know, Op6 no6, and 6th Symphony, P. Tchaikovsky

A beautiful selection 

[ahinton]

Jessye Norman singing 'Im Abendrot' from Strauss' Four Last Songs.

If you can hang around long enough to hear her get to the end, at the astonishingly slow tempo that she adopts in this piece; mind you, she gets away with it magnificently by making it sound utterly convincing like that, although I'm rather less than sure that the composer would have countenanced such a low metronome mark for it. You should have (and indeed perhaps did) hear her some years ago in that other extraordinary farewell, the final movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde - another case of seeming somehow to be unable to tear herself away from the departure that she had created. With lungs that size and that degree of controlled restraint, it is indeed possible to achieve quite astounding things in such music, however...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Oh yes, absolutely! My favorite quartet. I urge you to burn a CD with your favorite performance of Beethoven's op. 132 followed by Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto and listen to it in one sitting. In fact, I love chamber music combined with larger works...Schubert's late G major quartet D. 887 combined with Mahler's 7th Symphony is epic. Also Schubert's C major Quintet and Bruckner's 4th Symphony. If such combinations happened in the concert hall, it surly would bring tears of joy.

An interesting idea indeed - though the other idea of chamber works that occupy the whole or most of a programme is another such. The Cavatina from Op. 130 - a movement that Beethoven is said to have described as the most beautiful single movement he had ever composed (and this, if it a true quote, would have been said with the utmost modesty, I am sure) - is quite astonishing in its simple but not at all simple beauty and to have that quartet rounded off with the finally resolved angst of the Grosse Fuge is just perfect. Then again, what about that opening movement of Op. 131 - the one about which Richard Strauss wrote as if it somehow represented a day in the later life of its composer? And those wonderfully expansive variations the form the second movement of Op. 127 (an immensely long theme but few variations)? All but one of them is on a scale more ambitious than anything else in the quartet repertoire at the time of their composition. You may well deduce from this that the last five quartets of Beethoven are, for me, almost beyond words and have certainly exerted an inevitable effect on some of my own work.

Best,

Alistair

[giannalinda]

UMMMMM.....i think Swan from the Carnival of the Animals...whenever I playit my eyes flood up and i just cant control my self...I know you probly think im CRAZY but watever...its the truth :'(w

[ahbach]

When ever I hear the song "Broken Vow" I loose it completly!! I love that song!! sniff it's so amazing!!!

[akasimone]

Dvorak 9 has already been mentioned at least twice but I HAVE to give the second movement another nod. 

When everything starts dropping out and then it's just the cello and violin duet?!  GAH.

I've almost lost count of those rests trying to control myself (...I'm a mediocre horn player; performed this with my orchestra last year.)

[umkcpianokid]

Every time I hear the 2nd theme from the 1st mvt of the Waldstein sonata, you know the choral-like theme?  That just does something to me...

[giannalinda]

When ever I hear the song "Broken Vow" I loose it completly!! I love that song!! sniff it's so amazing!!!

Oh JOsh Groban right? I think ummm whats that song....Dont give up...I loove that song...

[m19834]

I don't think I've heard this, or I don't recall it, but I would think it a welcome thing for K to upload some more improvs. She's quite the thinker, and I'd love to know what she's thinking these days. 

Hi Furtwaengler, well, you are quite nice .  It is maybe shameless advertisement  but, as M., I posted "Journey" here :

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,26825.msg307934.html#msg307934

[ahbach]

Oh JOsh Groban right? I think ummm whats that song....Dont give up...I loove that song...

Yes It's Josh Groban!!! are you a fellow Josh Groban fan too? I do like that song "You are Loved" I believe it's called, I also love the song "Let me Fall" have you heard that one before?

[pianowolfi]

Hi Furtwaengler, well, you are quite nice .  It is maybe shameless advertisement  but, as m1469, I posted "Journey" here :

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,26825.msg307934.html#msg307934

Yes that is something very precious, as well as "voice within", I always sensed something very special in these two. Keep it up

[russda_man]

Chopin Ballade no. 1
Mendelssohn Songs without Words (the famous slow one in E major!)

[go12_3]

Instead of a piece that "makes me cry"....how about an instrument, like the violin?
Whenever I play my violin or hear a piece played by the violin, especially adagio----(I really can't weep while I play violin though, might ruin the varnish!). 

best wishes,

go12_3