Classical music that makes you cry

[CallOfTheRiled]

Sometimes I hear classical music on the radio that is so beautiful it makes me want to cry (in a good/ therapeutic way!) The problem is, I can never remember them later. I know Adagio for Barber, Strings, and Bruch Violin Concerto, but would love some others. Thanks

[TheFarSide]

Elgar's Nimrod

[TheFarSide]

This is a nice version:-

[Cruikshank]

Can't go wrong with a bit of Strauss's Four Last Songs - beautiful soaring orchestration, full of extensions and chromaticisms that are just so scrunchy your ears practically curl while listening to them:

[Cruikshank]

Agree about Nimrod btw - love that tune. When I was a young and dickish teenager I tried to convince myself that I liked one of the other variations better, just so that I could go against the grain and prove how superior my ear was, but actually of course it really is the best one.

[ataposaurus]

Elgar's Cello Concerto.

[Cruikshank]

(That's just one song on my link btw - haven't uploaded them all - it's the most famous - and deservedly so.)

[Jubelteen]

Yes Nimrod for me too.
Also the chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.
Not classical but the theme to 'White Horses'.

[unweavedrainbow]

"The Banks of Green Willow" by George Butterworth. Another loss to WW1, lost far too young

[CallOfTheRiled]

Thank you! I'm bookmarking them on YouTube to listen to in peace.

[Nerf]

Henri gorecki. I will try and find my favourite.

[Nerf]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4

Symphony no3

[joanofarchitrave]

Agree with Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Handel's Largo.

the Rose Aria from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

By Thee With Bliss by Haydn

Britten's Sea interludes - I'm not actually sure which one my favourite one is, I think it's Moonlight

Lots and lots of Purcell, particularly and

[itsazoohere]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy8iNUn13M
Every time.

[itsazoohere]

Sorry, another agreeing to Elgar's cello concerto

[Cruikshank]

ALL of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. I am srsly. Just get the complete ballet. It is absolutely gorgeous. Here is the ending, which I defy you to watch without crying (ok, ok, I know you said music, but it's ballet music, so you might as well watch the dancing as well);

[Purplecircle]

Pachelbels canon....my wedding music

[itsazoohere]

Happy tears, I hope, Purple?

[catinbootz]

I came on to say Nimrod and Elgar's Cello concerto

[TheFarSide]

Yes to Elgar's cello concerto, especially with Jacqueline du Pre:-

[TheFarSide]

Faure's In Paradisum - used in the last episode of Morse

[stillenacht1]

Ooo lots

Shostakovich Symph 5 3rd Movement

Brahms 2 1st movement (so beautiful)

Mahler (all of it!)

Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D 1st movement

Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 final movement.

Copland Appalachian Spring

[TheFarSide]

Mozart's clarinet concerto:-

[Ratracerunner]

Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni. You'll recognise it when you hear it!

[Purplecircle]

Yeah defo happy tears. Recently married and v loved up :-)

[Seriouslyffs]

Allegri's Miseri and the Bruch violin as well.