Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears


This is mine, light classical piano. What's yours?

 

ryder

Despite my self-given username I am a sentimental softy where music is concerned. Some of my trigger songs or compositions:

Schubert String Quintet in C

Chopin Prelude in Gm

Mozart Clarinet Quintet K581

I’ve Got A Mind To Give Up Living; Paul Butterfield Blues Band 

Both Sides Now; Joni Mitchell

Sunrise/Sunset; Fiddler on the Roof

The Attics of My Life; Grateful Dead

Ticking by Elton John   I think it’s his best piano playing ever and the lyrics are so sad/dark/ relevant?
 

 

 

Pretty much the entire CD of You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen.

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy.

Gold Leaves & Shadows, both by Michael Hoppe & Martin Tillman.

Etude 2 in A Minor by Philip Glass.

Julia by The Beatles.

You're My Thrill by Billie Holiday.

So In Love by Caetano Veloso.

I'd Have To Be Crazy by Willie Nelson.

If I Could Only Fly by Merle Haggard.

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison.

Carrickfergus by Van Morrison.

Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child by Van Morrison.

Here's That Rainy Day by Frank Sinatra.

A Song For You by Ray Charles.

Jesus And Woody by Ry Cooder.

Houston in 2 Seconds by Ry Cooder.

Yellow Roses by Ry Cooder.

Skylark by Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle.

Lush Life by Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle.

"Is It Too Much" by Shelby Lynne and her sister Allison Moorer. 

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