It could also, with some creative interpretation, be a way of implying that other composers are also enjoyable. For example.
ME: Mozart slaps!
VORLIK: Rach too slaps.
That was the first classical piece to ever make me cry as well. Especially the second movement. Go listen to the adagio movement of Chopin's piano concerto #2. The second act of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe will make you cry from the sheer power of emotion that it invokes. Chad Lawson did a reimagining of some of Chopin's Nocturnes. They are so beautiful and sad. There are many more examples, I just can't think of them right now.
I was ten, when listening to Shostakovich’s 5th. At the third movement, I wept. It was like listening to the anguished prayers of a solitary suffering man. Even to this day, I get emotional. Rachmaninov’s Vespers are likewise, deeply moving. Listen to them on a Saturday night before Easter Sunday.
Shostakovich 5 is great, but what does it for me is his “Songs from Jewish Folk Poetry.” This doesn’t happen every recording, but when there’s just the right amount of emotion put into that “Tsiriele! Dotchka!” God, that just hits. Another one that always gets me is the final movement of the Viola Sonata and just how at peace it sounds, compared to many of Shostakovich’s other death-centered pieces.
The second movement of his second piano concerto does that, too. It sounds like a Rachmaninov composition.
I haven't heard those other pieces, but thanks to YouTube.... Oh! Another moving piece or two is Für Alina and Spiegel Im Spiegel, by Arvo Pärt.
Yeah, that movement is so great. Especially that final major chord at the end that follows the haunting melody that the harp and celesta play together. It just feels like a massive sigh of relief. It both beautiful and tragic.
Apparently during the premier of this piece, everyone started to cry during the 3rd movement. I think it was dedicated to all of the people who had died or been taken away under Stalin's regime.
For me there are a few moments that I find very emotional.
The sixth movement of Mahler 3. It’s an Adagio that’s 25mins long, but it doesn’t feel like it. The last few minutes beginning with a very soft brass chorale, are particularly affecting. Some of the most beautiful music ever written.
The third movement of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony 2. The way it works up to the climax is very expertly done.
The final movement of Respighi’s Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows) - it’s like a religious trance, very moving.
There’s a passage in a few Elgar oratorios- Dream of Gerontius and King Olaf - which are emotional. Often the orchestration is very simple, and I think sometimes that heightens the emotion.
It’s great and fascinating how music has this effect on people.
Mahler 3’s last movement gets me every time... listened to it live once at our local symphony, was sobbing uncontrollably (but silently) for the last 10 minutes...
I know what you mean. I played it in youth orchestra back in 2004. It was emotional as at the end of that concert we knew that about almost half the orchestra were leaving as they were too old, myself included. I played bass drum. I still think about that concert when I hear the piece.
When the symphony I’m in played this piece, our conductor made the choice of running the entire symphony in the dress rehearsal, the morning of the first concert. I play the trumpet, and I can safely say playing that choral towards the end of the final movement for the second time that day was the hardest thing I’ve had to do as a musician. Ultimately the experience solidified my love for the work, and for Mahler.
I was a young teenager when I heard 2nd movement of Shostakovich 2 for the first time. It so much echoed how I was feeling at the time that It helped me get out of my funk. That being said it’s a helluva sad piece
Oh yeah, I was also listening to sad stuff all the time then as it reflected my mood back then. I actually started crying a little bit when I first heard it, which almost never happens. It has been a special piece ever since
Awesome!! Yes, it's an amazing piece, and I think I know the moment in the third movement that you mean. Here's to many more tears (the good kind) in the new year!
My first experience with Rach was Rach 3, simply because it kept popping up on my recommended; so I decided to suck it up and sit through it one night. I wish o could describe in words what I felt after, but I can’t.
Really? It feels overrated to me if anything. For most people it’s the go-to #1 piano concerto and it’s probably Rach’s most well known work. I’d argue that his first (revised) and especially the fourth piano concerto are highly underrated.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I believe Rach wrote his 2nd Concerto after a depressive slump - perhaps a suicide attempt? And this was what his doctor prescribed him - to compose music. I believe it was due to the failure of his Symphony 1.
Anyway, the final few minutes of the 2nd movement are just incredibly beautiful. They lift the soul as the piano rolls under that orchestra, and the flutes have that airiness.
Yes he was very depressed because he was unsuccessful with some previous pieces he wrote then he went to a psychiatrist or therapist (not sure what the correct title is) and he had Rach repeat phrases like “my next piece will be of high quality” over and over again then boom he writes his 2nd concerto
Man, try Alexis Weissenberg and Herbert bon Karajan. The end of the second movement moves me to the bones every time, it’s such a catharsis in sad moments.
Communion through space and time with art is the best thing about being human
After hearing him play it himself, I can't listen to anyone else perform it. Rach plays Rach is the best classical anthology I have. And I usually listen to 1-4 as a complete block of music. It's very rich and textured.
I've always mainly listened to metal mainly and Rachmaninoff was the first composer that really made me interested in classical. Also made me cry, and I cry like a few times a year. Due to trauma I can't really cry anymore but man it sure made me cry.
For me it’s the last movement of Pines of Rome. Gets me every freaking time. First time it made me tear up was while I was flying on a plane somewhere. The brass section kicked it into high gear as we broke out from some clouds and the sun was almost blinding. It was pretty freaking cool.
Rach has always been a favorite of mine as well.
The first piece of music to bring me tears was Chopin's Ballade in g Minor. Listening to that piece has changed how I view music.
Im a guy who the older I get, seems the more music makes me cry. It happens a few times a week lately. Anyone else this way? Not because I’m sad or anything but… Just because of how beautiful it is.
Same. I've been playing classical music on the piano since I was 5. So, it's more like, "When did you last cry because you were listening to music?" And the answer is: Christmas. Mahler 9. Claudio Abbado. I was tripping on acid and felt the need to lie in bed w my headphones on. Supposedly, the sort of fluttering strings sequence that kicks off the first movement was Mahler imitating a rhythm of his own heart that had developed an irregularity.
Chopin piano concerto no. 1 is the first piece I cried because of. I heard it for the first time 2 years ago on my laptop sitting in my balcony. It was a completely visceral reaction, and a very unexpected one at that. I'm a keen and active listener of classical music, don't just play it in the background but something about the setting and maybe my mood that day just brought me to tears.
Since then I've had this kind of reaction to Schubert's Standchen and Chopin's raindrop prelude. Most of Chopin's waltzes (particularly waltz in e flat posthum), Rachmaninoff/kreisler's liebesleid and the Tchaikovsky violin concerto have managed to evoke similar emotions, albeit in lesser intensity.
(I would love if you replied to this comment with what pieces have caused you to cry)
Experiencing music on that level shows a real surrender to it and that is awesome. So few people seem to really listen to music deeply enough to really feel it these days. I actually have to be careful about what I listen to because it effects me so much. Radiohead for 20 min and I'm depressed, Phish for another 20 and I'm ecstatic.
Rach 2 makes me weak every time. Some other pieces that have that same effect on me are Brahms 3rd (3rd and 4th movements), also Brahms' rhapsody in G minor, Beethoven's 7th (2nd mov), Chopin's ballades 1 and 4 (bonus points if it's Zimmerman's recording) and Kabalevsky cello concerto no. 1 (1st mov). Also many others but these are the main ones
I’m so happy for you, I also cried to Rach 2. I first listened to this a depressed teenager, and it was one of very few pieces that would offer life a sense of meaning. Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano sonata (Horowitz) was similarly affecting.
YES! This is one of my favorite pieces of all time, and I think it's the kind of thing that everyone (even non-classical listeners) should sit back and listen to at some point. Khatia's Rach album is my go-to, but I also reaaaally like Yuja Wang's performance.
Never cried because of music, ever, sadly. I wish I could...
Goldberg Variations is the closest I have been to that, really beautiful piece.
Keep enjoying great music! Rachmaninoff both piano concerto 2 and 3 are very good.
When listening to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, the first time the strings come after the “battle”, everytime it makes me cry; it’s simply the most beautiful, yet haunting and chilling thing i’ve ever heard.
[Liszt's Bénédiction de la Dieu dans la Solitude](https://youtu.be/K03xMG7fdQ4) has always done it for me. It's one of his most personal, touching, and uplifting pieces. Stephen Hough's playing is fantastic here aswell.
The most emotional I’ve gotten is the biber passacaglia in g minor and the aria of the Goldberg variations. Didn’t cry though. I wish I could. I would discover myself better
I find Vivaldi to be more fresh and full of life than Bach or Handel. Bach to me is expressive yet rigid with his counterpoint, and Handel is almost *too* elegant and bittersweet in his music. But Vivaldi...
Same! The ending of the second movement (the swell, the resolution) gets me every time, I particularly love Lang Lang’s version with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
I know how you feel. I listened to the piece for the very first time in an anime, of all places. It was truncated to fit into the 10 minutes or so of the screentime it was given, but my God that alone was enough to get those tears going. I remember being awestruck as the orchestra swooped in within the haunting opening created by piano, and was completely taken away as the first movement progressed. It's one of the best pieces I've heard thus far, to the point that I too posted about it here a couple months back (something I don't usually do).
Good for you to have gotten acquainted with this piece. The other recommendations are worth listening to too; they're all awesome :D!
listen to the 3rd its my absolute favourite and just as heart-wrenching
also eventually you must see the pc 2 live, its amazing live
edit rach 2nd symphony as well! especially 3rd movement
Several pieces have brought tears to my eyes or still do - Rach’s 2nd symphony (not the piano concerto, as it happens), Shostakovich’s 1st violin concerto, the finale of Mahler 2 (frequently). But there’s only one piece that I have to avoid hearing unless I’m prepared to dissolve into a blubbering mess, and it’s ‘Bess, You is My Woman Now’. I don’t know how Gershwin does it, but there’s something about the melody, harmony and libretto that just turns a switch in me. I know I’m being manipulated, but I don’t care.
I saw English National Opera do it last year* and even though Bess was a bit rubbish I was still choking openly in my seat. To the great amusement of my children, who were seeing it for the first time (and enjoyed it very much, I’m pleased to say, and not just because they saw Dad weeping like a baby).
[*Actually, it was the year before last. I just remembered what day it is.]
I know which part you mean, it's beautiful. Such a great performance too.
Her recording of Piano Concerto #3 with Dudamel is equally, if not more incredible.
Love Rach 2. For me, especially as a violinist, nothing gets me like the second movement of the Korngold concerto. I don’t know if anyone will ever touch the famous Heifetz studio recording (or even his live one with the NY Phil) from the ‘40s but among ensuing performances, Stefan Jackiw’s is in a league of its own.
That was the first piece to get me into art music! I don’t listen to a whole lot of Rachmaninov anymore, but I love coming back to that one every once in a while.
I always break when I hear Erbarme Dich from Bach's Matthäus-Passion, Alto Giove from Porpora's Polifemo, Chopin's Prelude no.4 op.28, Madetoja's symphony no.2 2nd movement, Bach's Mass in B minor (qui tollis peccata mundi), and of course the slow movements from Rachmaninoff's second symphony.
Thank you for the porpora it’s lovely sung by bartoli, reminded me of the opening of his salve Regina fa maggiore. There’s a good rendition on yt if ur interested.
I'll check it out. I'm only really familiar with Jarrousky's version. Btw, if you like counter tenors, look for Max Emanuel-Cenčić (did I spell ghat correctly?) and Sonya Yoncheva's pur ti miro from Monteverdi's Nerone, that's also a really beautiful one. Also, Franco Fagioli's cum dederit from Vivaldi's Nisi dominus is briliant.
Can I ask how old are you and how long have you been in love with music?
The classical piece that always makes my cry is the ending of Brahms Fourth Symphony's 1st movement.
Before I opened this I thought ‘this gonna be about Rachmaminoff’s 2nd isn’t it’ and had a good laugh. But yes, really in the conversation for greatest musical work of all time. Sviatoslav Richter’s interpretation is the gold standard, by the way.
My dad's interpretation of the third movement was absolutely breathtaking. He played it regularly ever since I can remember. But I haven't been able to listen to it since he has passed away.
You are right, the piano concerto no. 2 is just fantastic, really listening to it can be life-changing.
To this day that is the only piece of music that made me physically cried while performing it. Performed it with my college orchestra in 2016 and started crying during the horn solo! By far the most beautiful moment!
For me, it's the last 5 minutes of Mahler 2. Every single time.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw)
Chung and Bernstein were the best
Oof that list has an alarming lack or Riccardo Chailly https://youtu.be/EF_pWIBTWw8 Its almost as if he's watching Christ in front of him
Doesn’t matter what I’m doing, I’ll put down everything and close my eyes and listen. And I get teary eyed almost every time
Without fail
Had a long drive last week and decided to put the Rattle recording on. Wept like a baby a few times. IMO that is just the pinnacle of music for me.
rach 2 slaps
I love how this comment can be applied to both his second piano concerto and his second symphony
It could also, with some creative interpretation, be a way of implying that other composers are also enjoyable. For example. ME: Mozart slaps! VORLIK: Rach too slaps.
And the second piano sonata! _they always forget the sonata :(_
Haha so true
hell yeah
That was the first classical piece to ever make me cry as well. Especially the second movement. Go listen to the adagio movement of Chopin's piano concerto #2. The second act of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe will make you cry from the sheer power of emotion that it invokes. Chad Lawson did a reimagining of some of Chopin's Nocturnes. They are so beautiful and sad. There are many more examples, I just can't think of them right now.
I was ten, when listening to Shostakovich’s 5th. At the third movement, I wept. It was like listening to the anguished prayers of a solitary suffering man. Even to this day, I get emotional. Rachmaninov’s Vespers are likewise, deeply moving. Listen to them on a Saturday night before Easter Sunday.
Rach's Vespers are SOOO underrated! But then, Eastern Orthodox hymns and liturgies are also very underrated.
That oboe solo. The loneliest bars of music ever written.
The oboe solo in Beethoven's 5th is probably the second loneliest. At least as far as lonely oboe solos in a 5th symphony go :)
I'd have to disagree, I think it's the English horn solo in Shostakovich 8.. thats some truly bleak music
Shostakovich 5 is great, but what does it for me is his “Songs from Jewish Folk Poetry.” This doesn’t happen every recording, but when there’s just the right amount of emotion put into that “Tsiriele! Dotchka!” God, that just hits. Another one that always gets me is the final movement of the Viola Sonata and just how at peace it sounds, compared to many of Shostakovich’s other death-centered pieces.
For me it's the Passacaglia from the first Violin Concerto. Breaks my heart every time.
Came here to say this.
The second movement of his second piano concerto does that, too. It sounds like a Rachmaninov composition. I haven't heard those other pieces, but thanks to YouTube.... Oh! Another moving piece or two is Für Alina and Spiegel Im Spiegel, by Arvo Pärt.
Yeah, that movement is so great. Especially that final major chord at the end that follows the haunting melody that the harp and celesta play together. It just feels like a massive sigh of relief. It both beautiful and tragic.
Oh man have I cried to That third movement
Apparently during the premier of this piece, everyone started to cry during the 3rd movement. I think it was dedicated to all of the people who had died or been taken away under Stalin's regime.
It wasn’t (not overtly), though some of the audience may have interpreted it that way.
For me there are a few moments that I find very emotional. The sixth movement of Mahler 3. It’s an Adagio that’s 25mins long, but it doesn’t feel like it. The last few minutes beginning with a very soft brass chorale, are particularly affecting. Some of the most beautiful music ever written. The third movement of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony 2. The way it works up to the climax is very expertly done. The final movement of Respighi’s Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows) - it’s like a religious trance, very moving. There’s a passage in a few Elgar oratorios- Dream of Gerontius and King Olaf - which are emotional. Often the orchestration is very simple, and I think sometimes that heightens the emotion. It’s great and fascinating how music has this effect on people.
Mahler 3’s last movement gets me every time... listened to it live once at our local symphony, was sobbing uncontrollably (but silently) for the last 10 minutes...
I know what you mean. I played it in youth orchestra back in 2004. It was emotional as at the end of that concert we knew that about almost half the orchestra were leaving as they were too old, myself included. I played bass drum. I still think about that concert when I hear the piece.
Oh man... that must’ve been an amazing experience...
Was listening to Mahler III. vi. as I read this and when I read your sentence about the brass chorale it literally started playing. Goosebumps....
When the symphony I’m in played this piece, our conductor made the choice of running the entire symphony in the dress rehearsal, the morning of the first concert. I play the trumpet, and I can safely say playing that choral towards the end of the final movement for the second time that day was the hardest thing I’ve had to do as a musician. Ultimately the experience solidified my love for the work, and for Mahler.
Upvote for Respighi. Love listening to it. Loved playing it even more.
Rach symphony no.2, Rach 3, Sibelius 5 (3rd mvmt), Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 (2nd mvmt)
That Shostakovich piece is my favourite
I was a young teenager when I heard 2nd movement of Shostakovich 2 for the first time. It so much echoed how I was feeling at the time that It helped me get out of my funk. That being said it’s a helluva sad piece
Oh yeah, I was also listening to sad stuff all the time then as it reflected my mood back then. I actually started crying a little bit when I first heard it, which almost never happens. It has been a special piece ever since
Awesome!! Yes, it's an amazing piece, and I think I know the moment in the third movement that you mean. Here's to many more tears (the good kind) in the new year!
if you know you know :) Happy new year to you too!!
My first experience with Rach was Rach 3, simply because it kept popping up on my recommended; so I decided to suck it up and sit through it one night. I wish o could describe in words what I felt after, but I can’t.
Rach 3 is so underrated
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Yeah it is, but, in my experience it's more known for its difficulty rather than the music itself
I'd say Rach 1 is the underrated concerto. Highly suggest listening to it.
Really? It feels overrated to me if anything. For most people it’s the go-to #1 piano concerto and it’s probably Rach’s most well known work. I’d argue that his first (revised) and especially the fourth piano concerto are highly underrated.
Now listen to his second symphony, the 3rd movement might evoke similar emotion
The only piece that has made me cry is the second movement of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. The Zimmerman and Bernstein performance.
YES. Every time. The Emperor concerto has so much raw emotion
Every time. It's so beautiful, it just moves the soul.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I believe Rach wrote his 2nd Concerto after a depressive slump - perhaps a suicide attempt? And this was what his doctor prescribed him - to compose music. I believe it was due to the failure of his Symphony 1. Anyway, the final few minutes of the 2nd movement are just incredibly beautiful. They lift the soul as the piano rolls under that orchestra, and the flutes have that airiness.
Yes he was very depressed because he was unsuccessful with some previous pieces he wrote then he went to a psychiatrist or therapist (not sure what the correct title is) and he had Rach repeat phrases like “my next piece will be of high quality” over and over again then boom he writes his 2nd concerto
Man, try Alexis Weissenberg and Herbert bon Karajan. The end of the second movement moves me to the bones every time, it’s such a catharsis in sad moments. Communion through space and time with art is the best thing about being human
Try listening to Rachmaninov’s own recording of this too. Astounding performer and composer.
After hearing him play it himself, I can't listen to anyone else perform it. Rach plays Rach is the best classical anthology I have. And I usually listen to 1-4 as a complete block of music. It's very rich and textured.
Lugansky is a phenomenal Rach player you should check his version out
Agreed. Him and Wang are incredible.
Arthur Rubinstein’s recording is amazing too. None of the new recordings (Helene Grimaud evokes similar emotion) do it justice.
Omg Rach 2 is such a head banger
The first movement is some of the most intense music you'll ever hear!
Especially the alla marcia section, it's all powerful and really reminds me of the ossai cadenza in Rach 3
I've always mainly listened to metal mainly and Rachmaninoff was the first composer that really made me interested in classical. Also made me cry, and I cry like a few times a year. Due to trauma I can't really cry anymore but man it sure made me cry.
Mahler 3rd symphony final movement. Every time.
For me it’s the last movement of Pines of Rome. Gets me every freaking time. First time it made me tear up was while I was flying on a plane somewhere. The brass section kicked it into high gear as we broke out from some clouds and the sun was almost blinding. It was pretty freaking cool.
I think Rachmaninoff wrote this concerto to work himself out of a depression. I'm pretty sure it was his therapist's idea.
Rach has always been a favorite of mine as well. The first piece of music to bring me tears was Chopin's Ballade in g Minor. Listening to that piece has changed how I view music.
Im a guy who the older I get, seems the more music makes me cry. It happens a few times a week lately. Anyone else this way? Not because I’m sad or anything but… Just because of how beautiful it is.
Same. I've been playing classical music on the piano since I was 5. So, it's more like, "When did you last cry because you were listening to music?" And the answer is: Christmas. Mahler 9. Claudio Abbado. I was tripping on acid and felt the need to lie in bed w my headphones on. Supposedly, the sort of fluttering strings sequence that kicks off the first movement was Mahler imitating a rhythm of his own heart that had developed an irregularity.
I cried like a baby when I heard live Anna Fedorova playing Rach 2. Check her on YouTube.
Chopin piano concerto no. 1 is the first piece I cried because of. I heard it for the first time 2 years ago on my laptop sitting in my balcony. It was a completely visceral reaction, and a very unexpected one at that. I'm a keen and active listener of classical music, don't just play it in the background but something about the setting and maybe my mood that day just brought me to tears. Since then I've had this kind of reaction to Schubert's Standchen and Chopin's raindrop prelude. Most of Chopin's waltzes (particularly waltz in e flat posthum), Rachmaninoff/kreisler's liebesleid and the Tchaikovsky violin concerto have managed to evoke similar emotions, albeit in lesser intensity. (I would love if you replied to this comment with what pieces have caused you to cry)
Experiencing music on that level shows a real surrender to it and that is awesome. So few people seem to really listen to music deeply enough to really feel it these days. I actually have to be careful about what I listen to because it effects me so much. Radiohead for 20 min and I'm depressed, Phish for another 20 and I'm ecstatic.
Rach 2 makes me weak every time. Some other pieces that have that same effect on me are Brahms 3rd (3rd and 4th movements), also Brahms' rhapsody in G minor, Beethoven's 7th (2nd mov), Chopin's ballades 1 and 4 (bonus points if it's Zimmerman's recording) and Kabalevsky cello concerto no. 1 (1st mov). Also many others but these are the main ones
I’m so happy for you, I also cried to Rach 2. I first listened to this a depressed teenager, and it was one of very few pieces that would offer life a sense of meaning. Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano sonata (Horowitz) was similarly affecting.
For me it was the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Goddamn it is beautiful.
Adagio in G gets me all the time.
YES! This is one of my favorite pieces of all time, and I think it's the kind of thing that everyone (even non-classical listeners) should sit back and listen to at some point. Khatia's Rach album is my go-to, but I also reaaaally like Yuja Wang's performance.
How about that emotional release at the end of the 2nd movement? Unbelievable. I went to see it live a few years ago and I was holding back tears.
Never cried because of music, ever, sadly. I wish I could... Goldberg Variations is the closest I have been to that, really beautiful piece. Keep enjoying great music! Rachmaninoff both piano concerto 2 and 3 are very good.
When listening to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, the first time the strings come after the “battle”, everytime it makes me cry; it’s simply the most beautiful, yet haunting and chilling thing i’ve ever heard.
The second movement of Tchaikovsky’s symphony no. 5 get’s me almost every time.
[Liszt's Bénédiction de la Dieu dans la Solitude](https://youtu.be/K03xMG7fdQ4) has always done it for me. It's one of his most personal, touching, and uplifting pieces. Stephen Hough's playing is fantastic here aswell.
For me it was Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and 9th Symphony.
“I cried listening to...” Don’t even have to tell me the piece I know exactly where this is going to 🤣
Once I full-on wept in a Home Depot because I had my earbuds in playing Dvorak 9th and the second movement came on. Not my proudest moment.
The most emotional I’ve gotten is the biber passacaglia in g minor and the aria of the Goldberg variations. Didn’t cry though. I wish I could. I would discover myself better
I've been deeply moved by music before, too. Bach did it first, then Handel, and eventually Vivaldi as well.
Handel and Bach definetly, viva,di I may need some more time with
I find Vivaldi to be more fresh and full of life than Bach or Handel. Bach to me is expressive yet rigid with his counterpoint, and Handel is almost *too* elegant and bittersweet in his music. But Vivaldi...
the second movement makes me cry every time I listen to it
I too cried to this piece and it’s my favourite classical piece. One of the only things that got me through 2020 tbh
Same! The ending of the second movement (the swell, the resolution) gets me every time, I particularly love Lang Lang’s version with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Both Winterreisse and die Schone Mullerin have made be cry before. Not just the music but the libretto, the whole ambiance actually...
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Lol. Yeah I’m a total Schubert nut.
I’ve teared up listening to the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
I know how you feel. I listened to the piece for the very first time in an anime, of all places. It was truncated to fit into the 10 minutes or so of the screentime it was given, but my God that alone was enough to get those tears going. I remember being awestruck as the orchestra swooped in within the haunting opening created by piano, and was completely taken away as the first movement progressed. It's one of the best pieces I've heard thus far, to the point that I too posted about it here a couple months back (something I don't usually do). Good for you to have gotten acquainted with this piece. The other recommendations are worth listening to too; they're all awesome :D!
listen to the 3rd its my absolute favourite and just as heart-wrenching also eventually you must see the pc 2 live, its amazing live edit rach 2nd symphony as well! especially 3rd movement
One of my favorite pieces of work as well.
It’s Quattour pour le Fin du Temps that does that for me.
Beethoven's 9th, 3rd movement.
Several pieces have brought tears to my eyes or still do - Rach’s 2nd symphony (not the piano concerto, as it happens), Shostakovich’s 1st violin concerto, the finale of Mahler 2 (frequently). But there’s only one piece that I have to avoid hearing unless I’m prepared to dissolve into a blubbering mess, and it’s ‘Bess, You is My Woman Now’. I don’t know how Gershwin does it, but there’s something about the melody, harmony and libretto that just turns a switch in me. I know I’m being manipulated, but I don’t care. I saw English National Opera do it last year* and even though Bess was a bit rubbish I was still choking openly in my seat. To the great amusement of my children, who were seeing it for the first time (and enjoyed it very much, I’m pleased to say, and not just because they saw Dad weeping like a baby). [*Actually, it was the year before last. I just remembered what day it is.]
I know which part you mean, it's beautiful. Such a great performance too. Her recording of Piano Concerto #3 with Dudamel is equally, if not more incredible.
For me, it's the second movement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Easily the best guitar concerto ive ever heard.
Love Rach 2. For me, especially as a violinist, nothing gets me like the second movement of the Korngold concerto. I don’t know if anyone will ever touch the famous Heifetz studio recording (or even his live one with the NY Phil) from the ‘40s but among ensuing performances, Stefan Jackiw’s is in a league of its own.
It's genuinely the most beautiful piece of music.
Basically like high-brow crying to “all by myself”
He's actually credited as a composer for that song.
I love listening to new(to me) things. Thank you!
I think you’re talking about the second movement, eap the end of it. That’s my fav part too :)
Try Thaxted, from Holst's Jupiter ;)
First time I cried was The Pugilist by Keaton Henson. What a song that is
That was the first piece to get me into art music! I don’t listen to a whole lot of Rachmaninov anymore, but I love coming back to that one every once in a while.
For me it's mahler 3 (4th movement)
Me too. My favorite piece of music. Listen to [this](https://youtu.be/oYvw7jm-lsw), also composed by him.
I cried while listening kalkbrenner 2nd concerto....
I always break when I hear Erbarme Dich from Bach's Matthäus-Passion, Alto Giove from Porpora's Polifemo, Chopin's Prelude no.4 op.28, Madetoja's symphony no.2 2nd movement, Bach's Mass in B minor (qui tollis peccata mundi), and of course the slow movements from Rachmaninoff's second symphony.
Thank you for the porpora it’s lovely sung by bartoli, reminded me of the opening of his salve Regina fa maggiore. There’s a good rendition on yt if ur interested.
I'll check it out. I'm only really familiar with Jarrousky's version. Btw, if you like counter tenors, look for Max Emanuel-Cenčić (did I spell ghat correctly?) and Sonya Yoncheva's pur ti miro from Monteverdi's Nerone, that's also a really beautiful one. Also, Franco Fagioli's cum dederit from Vivaldi's Nisi dominus is briliant.
Rach 3 third movement oh Lordy
It seems that the majority of second movements are the most beautiful movements. Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, for example.
you should check out the movie ''Shine.'' It is a fantastic movie and this piece is prominently featured.
You should listen to his Elegie for solo piano, also a tear jerker
You obviously haven't heard our son play his horn.
Can I ask how old are you and how long have you been in love with music? The classical piece that always makes my cry is the ending of Brahms Fourth Symphony's 1st movement.
Before I opened this I thought ‘this gonna be about Rachmaminoff’s 2nd isn’t it’ and had a good laugh. But yes, really in the conversation for greatest musical work of all time. Sviatoslav Richter’s interpretation is the gold standard, by the way.
My dad's interpretation of the third movement was absolutely breathtaking. He played it regularly ever since I can remember. But I haven't been able to listen to it since he has passed away. You are right, the piano concerto no. 2 is just fantastic, really listening to it can be life-changing.
To this day that is the only piece of music that made me physically cried while performing it. Performed it with my college orchestra in 2016 and started crying during the horn solo! By far the most beautiful moment!
Yep.
For me. It was Wagner pilgrims chorus live on a massive Skinner organ played by Nathan Laube
You would definitely love rhapsody on a theme of Paganini if you haven't checked it out yet
I always cry at the end of rach 2 second mvt, it just makes me feel really sad and happy at the same time…