Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears

Sorry that y'all aren't hip to Wesla Whitfield.  Even worse that you can't catch her live anymore either.  I really did shed tears when she passed a couple years ago.  I really did fall in love with her voice.  This is someone who never gets in the way of the song, but just allows the love in it come through.  

Wesla and her husband/pianist are a true story of a couple spending their lives making music and love for us all.

 

Phish played my hometown of Miami and played Tela, a song of which I played during my first daughters birthing.  Hearing this live took me right back to that day. I can be seen in the video at 2:38 on the right visibly emotional. I’m grateful for the guy who uploaded this video, despite’s it’s quality. 
 

many other Phish Phans out there?

Phish played my hometown of Miami and played Tela, a song of which I played during my first daughters birthing.  Hearing this live took me right back to that day. I can be seen in the video at 2:38 on the right visibly emotional. I’m grateful for the guy who uploaded this video, despite’s it’s quality. 
 

many other Phish Phans out there?

Alison Krauss-Jacob's Dream

If that one doesn't get you, nothing will!

Beethoven Symphony #9, Fourth Movement

In Rodzinski's Nutcracker on Westminster one of my all time favorite recordings and I'm not even a fan of the work! but it is just so splendid, the moment where in the middle of the night when the Christmas Tree grows. The music is so exciting and beautiful as it builds it brings out the beauty of being a child at Christmas time.

Yes I listen to it once a year.

Nice

The Eagles - The Last Resort

You guys ever heard of Midlake? Tim Smith vocals. This song is so kindhearted, it makes me want to be a better person. The title is 'Bandits' from the album The Trials of Van Occupanther.    It's about a poor family, living simply in the forest. Bandits arrive and take everything. They get on with life by sharing what little they have left with strangers, and then empathize with the bandits. Simple and staggering, to me at least. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3SjXiyUT7s

Janis Ian - Tattoo

Theme From Schindler's List - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams

Well, uh, “Crying” with kd Lang and Roy Orbison.

I think the question means "recordings," not "music." James Taylor can butcher anything, and it still qualifies as "music," but you don't like it. What you like is the recording of a better artist's earlier, heartfelt, comprehending performance of the same "music."

That said, to name just one, Patti Griffin, "Making Pies."

Cry, by Ray Charles

Cry Me A River, by Julie London

When i paid $5.99 for John and Yokos Two Virgins. I cried. Kinda wish I still had it. The cover was interesting.

She's Leaving Home, by The Beatles.

Janis Ian - At Seventeen

Well it’s that time of the year and is there anything more lovely than Waltz of the Snowflakes final scene Act 1 of ThE Nutcracker?

I'm a man - I don't cry 😁.  My wife did choke up when I had her listen to "Romona" by Dylan on the following verse:

I've heard you say many times
That you're better than no one
And no one is better than you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose

She was fighting for some folks at work and things didn't turn out in her favor.  I told her it reminded me of the situation she was in. Regardless, it's a great song.

Joan Baez version,I didn't know you would leave me in the Summer....I have to go play it now...

John Prine:  Hello in There

George Jones: The Grand Tour and/or He Stopped Loving Her Today

Joni Mitchell: 

"River"

"The last time I saw Richard"

Both from the "Blue" album.

Christmas Eve..

just listened to Vienna Boys Choir. With Peter Marschik and Wiener zsängerknaben

The Messiah - Handel’s complete materpiece.

on Qobuz. CD quality 16/44. Incredible sound quality completely filled the room with the venue, the orchestra and palpable singers. Wow!

Couldn’t help myself with certain parts. Moved to tears 😭 Yes I am getting too soft as I advance in years. Thank goodness no-one was around to see. I must have been a pathetic sight 😬 The Messiah is just on another level. It is not so complex and technically masterful as Bach’s magnificent Christmas Oratorio, but the Messiah is just so very special. A better testament to devotion of the Christ Jesus in the form of music does not exist. The combination of the texts prepared by a devout Anglican librettist, Charles Jennens, put to music by a master of opera George Frederic Handel, produced the profound and enduring masterpiece so many enjoy especially at Christmas. As a ‘20-pence’ boy choruster in a cathedral choir, I sung the Messiah on a few occasions. Handel by invitation of The Duke of Devonshire, then appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, first performed the work in Dublin, Ireland.

Then moved on to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a 2007 recording conducted by the marvelous Nikolaus Harnoncourt with soprano Christine Schäfer and bass baritone Chritian Gerhaher. This is a 24/96 recording and ye gods, the sound was spectacular. The performance was very fine. I love this masterwork and it is soul-stirring.

Finally, I did not attend midnight mass on Christmas Eve this year - something I love to do. I usually go to the beautiful Methodist church on Wilshire Blvd. in Westwood CA (Los Angeles). On a couple of occasions we have been treated to many members of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra playing treats such as the Messiah for us.

As I did not venture over there this year, I listened to an old CD recording I have of The King’s College choir A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. I sung these as a boy choruster many times. I even sung the Once In David’s Royal City first-verse solo in front of many hundreds of people and indeed mildly botched up one of the lessons I was chosen to to read.

One Carol moves me so much. It always does. It is profoundly beautiful. It was composed by Christina Georgina Rossetti in 1870 and released posthumously in 1904:

1. In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

2. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.

3. Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.

4. Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.

5. What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.

MAX RICHTER........(ALBUM)  BLUE NOTE BOOKS (TRACK) ON THENATURE OF DAYLIGHT

just sublime, gets me every time......

  My two current tear inducers are "Didio's Lament" from Purcells Dido&Aeneas and The Kings Noise version of Barbara Allen.  The Hymm of Thanksgiving from one of the late Beethoven String Quartets usually works as well, as well as the slow movement from Schubert's Piano Sonata D. 959

Mahler symphonies 2 and 8, Mozart's Laudate Dominum.

"The Lord's Prayer" - Andrea Boccelli

I'm not a religious person, per se, but this one fills me with the solemnness from Christmases past.

Saw King Crimson in 2019.....after playing Red, they played Epitath......the 30 year old German KC fan next to me pointed out to me(a65 year old longtime fan)....." Man....you are crying!!"....Indeed I was...unbeknownst to myself!!!

@laps - you win! @jordsg & closenplay - excellent choices

Another choice - The Lord is My Shephard/Psalm 23 Meir Finkelstein w/choir and orchestra  or same by Gerald Cohen and choir

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:

Van Morrison, last cut on Avalon Sunset "These are the days". Beautiful version with a heart touching accompaniment of strings......Jim

'Anthem' from the musical Chess

Hey all,

Here’s a few more. I actually think there are better entries by Warren Zevon...such as this one. Written while he was dying of cancer and he well knew it.

And this one from the man in black to me is far better than Hurt....from the same set of recordings with Rick Rubin:

Also someone else nominated this and I wholly agree, here’s a link to the studio version:

@gruvejet yes there's a few of us here. 

Enjoy!