Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears

Sibelius: The Death of Melisande (Title says it all)

Strauss: I'm Abendrot (Literally 'sunset')

Elgar: The Intermezzo from his Crown of India suite.  (Very tender)

Schubert: Die Leierman.  (Soul crushing)

Mahler: Adagietto.  (Used in films such as Death in Venice)

Beethoven: The Funeral March from his 3rd Symphony.  (It is long but will leave you moved)

Piazzolla: Soledad.  (Solitude)

Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess

Fernando Ortega Grace And Peace.  Merry Christmas all.  

Most albums by Mike Oldfield, especially “The Songs of Distant Earth”. Gets me every time.  

Barber’s Adagio is a great choice. 
 

Ornette Coleman: Lonely Woman

90% of Claudia Muzio recordings will reduce me to tears (and every time I see the end of Madame Butterfly live at the LA City Opera).  The tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi wrote of Muzio: Singing with that unique voice of hers made of tears and sighs and restrained interior fire.  However, someone changed my 3 Muzio selections and inserted other pop songs.  Here goes again: