Music that broke your heart

[pianowolfi]

I wonder if there are people here who were touched so much by a piece of music that their heart has broken. And I wonder if this is something that can happen independently from a personal relationship to the composer or interpreter of that particular music. For me a piece that came close to breaking my heart is "Variations serieuses" by Mendelssohn. But this was mainly because it is the favorite piece of my wife. So there is a personal relation involved. But did you for instance ever listen to a concert and left it with tears in your eyes, knowing that this has changed your life forever?

[infectedmushroom]

This broke my heart the first time I heard the piece played by this Pianist:

[le_poete_mourant]

How bout women that broke your heart?  I have a much longer list of that than music. 

[pianowolfi]

How bout women that broke your heart?  I have a much longer list of that than music. 

That I would have posted in the "anything" board.  I'll strictly beware of doing that.

[imbetter]

The arrieta movement in pianowolfi's recording of beethoven op.111

[pianowolfi]

The arrieta movement in your recording of beethoven op.111

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Thank you very much! That was also one of my heartbreaking pieces, when I heard it the first time, played in 1984 by Alfred Brendel. 

[imbetter]

I looked at my media player and ive listened to it 174 times 

[pianowolfi]

OMG OMG  *faints*.......................*awakes*    You beat me definitely. The problem is that I can't listen to my current heartbreaking piece anymore. I would always cry......... .so I have probably way fewer listenings than you. omg if you really are serious that is unbelievable......

[imbetter]

yea it really touched me it made me cry

[pianowolfi]

yea it really touched me it made me cry

Now you make me cry  

[imbetter]

Now you make me cry  

It didn't make me cry in a bad way 

[imbetter]

the first movement was excellent to btw

[pianowolfi]

You know this is very intimate but now perhaps i can tell you. When i heard that Beethoven the first time (by Brendel) that changed my life. I know a lot of people don't like Brendel now but back then this was something really extraordinary. And i went out of the concert hall blind from tears, trying to avoid any smalltalk, my girlfriend and my father were there but both seemed not have to noticed anything special. So I hid it away. Anyway to my dad I had always difficulties to show any feelings. Well and since then this piece has always been something holy to me...


Yeah i know that you didn't mean in a bad way!!!

[imbetter]

beethoven op.111 is my favorite sonata. Im gonna learn it at some point in the future but right now im putting all my attention into Rach's second sonata.

But yea, yours was beautifal

[csy]

Some moments in Brahms Third Piano Sonata 2nd movement and both piano concerti.

[donjuan]

This broke my heart the first time I heard the piece played by this Pianist:

Be sure to see "Five Easy Pieces" if you haven't yet.

[xardas]

I would say the first part of the Vienna Concert by Keith Jarrett.

[liszt-essence]

'Erbarme dich mein got' by J.S Bach from the "matthäus passion"(or st matthew passion)

It made me cry. It helped to 'melt the ice' in my throat and heart when I was very sad.

I'm no christian, but I do have a special relationship with Jesus. And to know what happened to this man, what he has gone through, how he must have felt during that intense suffering.

Just put on the song..

(If you don't have it, i'd be more than willing to send it to you - just give me your email)

It also reminds me of how fragile we as humans can be. How small things can alter our lives and feelings so gravely. We are magnificent and great beings, but down here, we sometimes are just but shadow and dust. So fragile. So powerless.

[jre58591]

the wagner-liszt transcription of isoldens liebestod really gets to me.

[pianowolfi]

It also reminds me of how fragile we as humans can be. How small things can alter our lives and feelings so gravely. We are magnificent and great beings, but down here, we sometimes are just but shadow and dust. So fragile. So powerless.

Very true. 

[ahinton]

the wagner-liszt transcription of isoldens liebestod really gets to me.

At the risk of repeating something I wrote on this forum ages ago on the subject of this transcription, what about the Wittgenstein version of it for left hand alone? which leaves the right hand free for - well, whatever may take your fancy (assuming that you have any additional concentrative faculties at your disposal while playing it...)

Best,

Alistair

[pianowolfi]

Argh. Argh argh argh. Da naughty Mister Hinton! How comes that I stumble permanently over certain words and expressions here in this forum since three days?


(Btw I prefer to use both hands. On the piano. I mean. )