Composers and Works that make you cry

[DarkWind]

Has anyone heard the Berlioz Requiem? It's beautiful...

[Brahmsian3]

I love many of the pieces already mentioned, but nothing I have found moves me in quite the same way as the Nimrod movement from Elgar's Enigma Variations.

[stevie]

has anyone heard the 2nd movement from schubert's 2nd piano trio in Eb?
quite a few people may have dicovered it, like i did, from watching the movie 'the piano teacher'.

it is absolutely stunning, the rhythm that starts it off and is used throughout is really unqiue, i completely agree with this review :

''The Andante second movement's main theme is a kind of proto-tango, a brooding melody first played by the cello with a wonderfully balletic accompaniment in the piano (the two instruments later swap roles as the piano takes the melody and the violin joins the accompaniment - a trick which often returns throughout the work). Here as in the first movement, the players' modesty is almost self-effacing. The strings take a particularly polite approach, and I found myself longing for the odd lapse of good taste to carry me out of the atmosphere of the Edwardian drawing room.

However, the rigid control of tempo and phrasing pays off in the dramatic climax of the Andante, where a series of tremolos reach an enormous passionate crescendo in a weird corner of the late-Schubert harmonic landscape, and the violence is all the more powerful for the restraint which precedes it.''

listen to the 2nd sample(the andante) from here -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classical/reviews/schubert_florestan.shtml

[nicolaievich]

hi all, there are several pieces from several composer that move me to tears, but the most emotive piece for me is the andante, third movement, of rachmaninoff cello sonata in G minor. i can't believe that melodie to be that beautiful, what do you say?

[lisztwasgod]

I absolutely LOVE piano transcriptions, perhaps why I am so partial to Liszt, and thusly I like any kind of epic sturcture and developed theme. It is so hard to find in music in general, much less to move one to tears. In any mood, Liszt's Tannhauser Overture and Norma transcriptions can bring me to tears

[phil13]

Chopin's Mazurka in A minor Op.17, No.4. So poetic, so melancholy, so tear-jerking...

[Bouter Boogie]

Dvorak His 9th symphony is wonderful..

[gscalia]

I would have to say the Nocturnes of Chopin, in particular the op.9,2 and the op.posth. in c# minor.

also the third movement of chopin's second sonata( marche  funebre)

[jeremyjchilds]

Brahms 118-2

[tariswerewolf]

Puccini's "Crisantemi" for String quartet definitely does me in. It just tears me apart.