What piece makes you CRY?

[hiline]

Maiden's prayer used to make me cry.But not any more.

[_chops]

rachmaninovs n 2 second movement.... i can listen to it over and over again. if I only could play one thing during my lifetime it would be that concerto... the 2 movement...its so beautiful!!!!!

and chopin ballade in f moll op 52(?)

[I Love Xenakis]

pieces of music make you cry?


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[pianistimo]

only the first time, never the second.  otherwise - wouldn't it be like crying for movie re-runs.  only really good ones make me do that.  seems like the only time i've felt like crying is during a live performance and a piece really hits me as being super 'felt.'  but, sometimes the opposite reaction - and just sort of 'shock.'  not really crying but - feeling the intensity - like when an olympic skiier makes it to the bottom of the run really fast.  it's a rush and usually you only feel it when you're playing - but occasionally when others do.  very bad to cry when you're playing, though, since it might look bad and make the keyboard slippery. 


chopin ballades when they are played really well

mostly music at church (sounds strange) but i feel it is directed to God and that makes me cry happily sometimes.  it's encouraging music.  the words mean something to me.

[amojoam]

Cry? Me? Never.
Moved emotionally?

Smetana- Ma Vlast: "Vlatva" (knowing the tragic story behind Smetana adds a lot to it).

Chopin- Prelude in C minor Op. 28 no 20- there's just something about those chords.

[arensky]

"Take Me to Arruanda",  sung by Astrud Gilberto.

Some others, but not a lot. This silly Brazilian pop song really touches my heart. I can't hear it without crying, only piece of music I can say that about.

[panic]

Mahler 9 adagio
Alkan "Un heureux menage"

[brahms_schumann]

1.   Albinoni-Adagio for strings
2.   Tschaikovsky-Andante Maestoso from Nutcracker Suite
3.   Chopin-nocturne c-moll
4.   Liszt- no.104 Sonetto del Petrarca
5.   Schubert  Sonatas D960 2nd movement, also D 959 2nd movement
6.   Bach-Kempff Siciliana from Flute sonate in es-dur
7.   Bach-Busoni ich ruf' zu dir Herr
8.   Bach chaconne from viloin sonata
9.   Chaussone-Poeme
10. Chopin-Sonate no.2 "Funeral marsch"
11. Brahms-Symphony no.3 3rd movement
12. Mozart-Requiem
13. Brahms-Requiem
14. Rodriguez -2nd movement from guitar concerto

                           etc, etc, etc

[tibi]

chopin ballades when they are played really well

i agree with you, especially for ballade no 1. i heard this pieces when i was watching "the pianist". this song explore my emotion deeply. form the beginning till the end. execpt the ending part, this part make me stop breathing for a while, since i can't imagine how to play on that speed with that kind of touch ( i only able to reach the speed not the touch, the sound is horrible ).

also, the chopin's nocturne no 22. this pieces is rarely heard, but i have one by Ashkenazy ( one of the best in chopin according to me).

[g_s_223]

Another vote for Fauré's Requiem, the In Paradisum movement for me.

His Cantique de Jean Racine is another favourite of mine - one of the most perfect pieces of music I know.

[danyal]

I cant believe nobody in this entire thread has mentioned the 2nd mvt of Mozart's 23rd concerto... ahh... its humbling that piece is... Just not when Horowitz plays it... he adds very uncalled for notes and trills in the most inappropriate of places...

Also the Mozart Requiem. I watched a performance of the Bottesini double bass concerto last year and cried..

Tchaikovsky VC... 1st mvt

Rachmaninoff 2, 3,

Actually a while lot of pieces... too many too mention... maybe I'm just over emotional. 

[landru]

Schubert D960 First Movement
Copland Appalachian Spring
Dvorak 9th Symphony 2nd Movement
Chopin Nocturnes
Beethoven 7th Symphony 2nd Movement

[ravel]

add to the liszt, rachmaninov-cello concerto-andante -volodos piano transcription !!!
most moving !! 

[pianolist]

It takes not just a piece of music, but a real performance to do the trick. I heard Ivan Fischer conduct the Budapest Festival Orchestra in the BBC Proms in 2004. They played Rachmaninov 2nd Symphony, and I had no idea that orchestras could still play like that. I wept throughout. No other performance of the work has ever done that, though Rachmaninov has a magical way of making one feel like a friend.

Phyllis Sellick, one half of the Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick piano duo for many years (they were married) was interviewed on the BBC a couple of years ago. She remembered being at the Proms in the 1930s, when Sir Henry Wood premiered Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music", which had been written for his 50th anniversary as conductor. In the first half of the concert, Rachmaninov had played his own 2nd Piano Concerto, and in the second half, he sat in a box, just in front of Phyllis Sellick. Apparently he chose to leave the hall soon after the Vaughan Williams started, because he was crying. I was rather happy to hear this story, because it confirms all that I love about Rachmaninov.

Oh, and by the way, since I met and got married to the woman of my dreams, I find it easier to cry. Aahhh!

[demented cow]

Among various others:
-Adagio from Bach-Busoni Tocata Adagio and Fugue played by Horowitz in 1965. Divine playing of one of Bach's most beautiful melodies.
-Beethoven pno concerto 4, violin concerto, choral fantasy
-Liszt sonata, benediction
-Brahms requiem, pno conc. 1
-chopin ballade 4, scherzo 4
-mozart requiem, concerto 25 (sic.),
-John Rusnak playing Chopin op. 10/2. :-]

[nicco]

There is just something...indescribable about the solo piano part in the last movement of the Rach 2. That man was a genius.

[emmdoubleew]

You know, I have something to say about crying.

The last time I cried was when I was 11 lying in a hospital bed with a third degree burn, waiting for over 5 hours for the only doctor to come see me (middle of summer weekend).

Before that, i do remember crying at movies.

Since then though, never.

And I'm so curious to do so. I think, at least I hope to be an emotional person (I love art and music, and they both require emotions) and I can get pretty pumped/sad when playing the piano. But cry? Maybe one day .

The pieces that make me feel really sad:
Mozart's Requiem.
Beethoven Moonlight Mvt. 3.
Beethoven's 9th.

3.   Chopin-nocturne c-moll

Chopin was a French Composer, wouldn't it be c-mineur?
What really makes me cry is there are 500 ways to say cminor. I think we should all use c-

[brahmsian]

Chopin was a French Composer, wouldn't it be c-mineur?

Uuuuhhhhhhhh.....

I'm pretty sure he was Polish.

[JCarey]

The ending of Mahler's 2nd Symphony has always moved me to tears. It's probably the most powerful ending of anything I've ever heard.

Uuuuhhhhhhhh.....

I'm pretty sure he was Polish.

Yes, Brahmsian is right.

[hiline]

tibi,would you mind sharing the Chopin Nocturne No.22 with me,please? I've never heard of it...

[lisztisforkids]

Balakriev piano concerto 2 in E flat Major movment 2, Adagio

[dinosaurtales]

Any piece I am working on. No really.  Beethoven Op 110 -  I don't cry or anything, but it's just so ...... sad.  I haven't been able to establish what he was thinking when he wrote it, but he was definitely thinking something sad.

[contrapunctus]

I don't cry.

[dancingfingers]

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

[panic]

Yes. Good call.

[skeptolotapus]

I think "for alisa" by ludvig von beetoven is pretty sad but it don't make me cry none.

The songs that maken me cry are the songs that I can't play but wishn I could , which means just about everything makes me cry! hyuk hyuk hyuk

[pianistimo]

i miss the old you.  buck up and stop whimpering.

*hides the fact that music teachers make me cry more than the music itself.  i mean if we didn't know what we didn't know - it would sound good.  but, then they say 'no, that's not the way it's supposed to be.' 

[caperflutist]

*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

I like Cape Breton Lullaby
(and I am a caper:))..

and Bist du bei mir

[caperflutist]

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

I LOVE the Faure Requiem... the choir I sing in is performing this in 2 weeks. I rreally like the ff hosanna men part in the sanctus. The violin is nice too:)

I like when the ssopranos come in with Lux after the men (I can't remember thhe movement- Libera me?) like the sun breaking through after a storm.. BEAUTIFUL and the in paradisum and the agnes dei..all beautiful. The only thing is that I am an alto, and we don't have much, except for the offertory

[caperflutist]

Another vote for Fauré's Requiem, the In Paradisum movement for me.

His Cantique de Jean Racine is another favourite of mine - one of the most perfect pieces of music I know.

my choir performed the cantique while on tour in europe (  I wasn't in it then) in the abbeys..
most have been beautiful!!!!!!!!

My conductor is obsessed with John Rutter and since he edited the Requiem we are doing it (well, also because it is amazing:)). She is a nun so we really get to the heart of it.

Talking about Rutter- I love the "Lord is my Shepherd" with the oboe solo..beautiful

[caperflutist]

should have mentioned, the faure doesn't make me cry from sadness. It is a very spiritual experience..uplifting .so different from the mozart




7.   Bach-Busoni ich ruf' zu dir Herr

I play the original Bach organ version and it is so beautiful

[tompilk]

End of rach 3... (me and my family with aunties and uncles were all crying in a box when we saw Barry Douglas play this... lol)
Liszt Sonata
Tom

[mike_lang]

Definitely the B section of Brahms intermezzo op. 117 no. 3.

[pianowelsh]

CRY?? In a good way OR in hysterical desparing way ie Wail and plead for mercy??

[letters]

finlandia, that nice bit in the middle, thats nice

[maxy]

Uuuuhhhhhhhh.....

I'm pretty sure he was Polish.

half french, half polish.

he did have french citizenship.  he liked to pretend himself more of a polish.

[emmdoubleew]

Uuuuhhhhhhhh.....

I'm pretty sure he was Polish.

He was of Polish origin, but he was definetly a French composer.

Otherwise he'd still be Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin.

[sauergrandson]

Mozart 23rd piano concerto, 2nd movement.

Cinema: The Mission (Morricone), "Il Postino"'s theme,

Several arias for soprano-boy by Bach (-cond. Harnoncourt & Leonhardt)

[tanman]

Chopin ballade 4 when played really well.
The Lark by Balakriev-Glinka
Rach 2, 3.
Ravel Ondine
Scriabin Etude op2 no1 
a bunch of others that I'm too lazy to list out

but also...


Fur elise...
of course the crying is not in an emotional way. more of a cringing, torturing type of crying...

[chopinmozart7]

my own

[Petter]

[db05]

Everything that I've heard in Db or C#m so far... Wonder why.
Scarlatti sonatas because I want to play them but I can't.
Same with Chopin, even harder since my classmates can play.

I want Chopin...

[teresa_b]

  Lacrymosa (naturally) from the Mozart Requiem

Mozart PC no 23, 2nd movement in F# minor

Teresa

[cmg]

Durufle "Requiem."  From beginning to end. 

Entire second scene (Fourth Act) from Berlioz' "Les Troyens."

Mahler Sixth Symphony:  Andante

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  Symphony No. 5, "Romanza," and Sea Symphony, Part IV,"The Explorers."

@teresa . . . your medical post to the pianist suffering from hand problems was generous and helpful.  On the poster's behalf, I'd like to thank you, good Doctor!

[goldentone]

"Journey" by Karli.

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

[organed]

Komm susser tod  ('Come Sweet Death') by Bach, Virgil Fox's arrangement. A very moving and emotional piece. His recording of this piece at Riverside or even more so on the Wannamaker (Lord and Taylor) organ is extremely moving.

[justliam]

"The pieces that make me feel really sad:
Mozart's Requiem.
Beethoven Moonlight Mvt. 3.
Beethoven's 9th."

Beethoven's 9th? Really?

I can't stop grinning after that.

Some pieces that make me sad (but not cry) are:

The Lark Ascending - Not sad really, but I find it a bit overwhelming sometimes
Chopin Ballad No.1
Shostakovich PC 2 - 2nd Mvt

[pokeythepenguin]

i am so sad at JOhn Wiliams music for movie the piano he is relly gud i dnno y u guys dont like him so much bcuz he is rly good

[pianowolfi]

i am so sad at JOhn Wiliams music for movie the piano he is relly gud i dnno y u guys dont like him so much bcuz he is rly good

I thought that was Michael Nyman.

[pokeythepenguin]

I thought that was Michael Nyman.