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Sioni Sais
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Hardly profound but 'The Best Is Yet To Come' by Clifford T Ward always affects me. He really had a gift for heartbreaking songs (YMMV).

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We were playing a best of Nina Simone album in the car heading away for Easter and I kept finding myself on the point of bursting into tears. I don't normally cry over music at all.

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I'll second "Oh Love that will (wilt?) not let me go"

The slow (2nd?) mov of the Bach double violin concerto has been having that effect on me since Christmas - achingly beautiful

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quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:


All of the other music that people find depressing actually makes me feel better when I am depressed.

Leonard Cohen does that for me - makes me feel so good when I am down. Especially his Songs of Love and Hate.

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It would be "Dance Me to the End of Love" - who else but Leonard Cohen. Especially the clip with the older couples dancing...

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Welease Woderwick

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quote:
Originally posted by Keren-Happuch:
We were playing a best of Nina Simone album in the car heading away for Easter and I kept finding myself on the point of bursting into tears. I don't normally cry over music at all.

She does it to me, too - it is that amazing smoky voice!

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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:

I have a song to sing, O from The Yeomen of the Guard

I haven't thought about that song for years, but yes, it would bring a tear to my eye too.

Danny Boy, if it's well sung.

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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Danny Boy

Oh. Hell. Yes.

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Mercy Now is my current tear jerker.
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Welease Woderwick

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Ella singing Every Time We Say Goodbye - floors me every time!

Im Abendtrot [spelling?] by Richard Strauss - my favourite version is by Jessye Norman.

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This song by Bif Naked about child abuse: Tell on You.

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quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Danny Boy, if it's well sung.

It is a song I only associate with funerals these days so I suppose that doesn't really count for me. No music really makes me cry but Allegri's Miserere raises a lump in the throat and the Allegretto from Beethoven's 7th makes my spine tingle.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Im Abendtrot [spelling?] by Richard Strauss - my favourite version is by Jessye Norman.

I'm more a Gundula Janowitz man myself, though I have fond memories of seeing an entire symphony orchestra struggling to be louder than Jessye Norman in a performance of Beethoven's 9th.

And the one of the Four Last Songs that always gets me is Beim Schlafengehen. I've always been a sucker for what Denis Forman (in his Good Opera Guide) calls an RSV - "Reprehensible Solo Violin".

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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Danny Boy, if it's well sung.


This makes me cry but mainly because my late father used to sing it

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The Allegri Miserere, oh yes indeed. And 'If it be your will', another wonderful piece of Leonard Cohen.

The Lachrymose Mrs. S

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Welease Woderwick

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quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Im Abendtrot [spelling?] by Richard Strauss - my favourite version is by Jessye Norman.

I'm more a Gundula Janowitz man myself, though I have fond memories of seeing an entire symphony orchestra struggling to be louder than Jessye Norman in a performance of Beethoven's 9th...
My dad was a Janowitz fan and I inherited his copy when he died so I have the best of both worlds.

Jessye Norman was a BIG star in every sense of the word!

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Originally posted by St.Silas the carter:
Only This song. It was sung at my Father's, my sister's, and my grandmother's funerals. I can't listen to it at all nowadays, but it used to be my favorite gospel song.

Thank you for this. I did nt know the tune, but it is taking root. Wonderful psalm

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Mary Marriott
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'I'll second "Oh Love that will (wilt?) not let me go"

Aye Twangist, it is wilt.

A great favourite all my life. Fanny the writer, really was on to something with it. Having senior moment about her full name.

And bringer of tears. The words, the tune and my memories all in the mix together I guess.

Was her surname Crosby ?

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quote:
Originally posted by Mary Marriott:
'I'll second "Oh Love that will (wilt?) not let me go"

Aye Twangist, it is wilt.

A great favourite all my life. Fanny the writer, really was on to something with it. Having senior moment about her full name.

And bringer of tears. The words, the tune and my memories all in the mix together I guess.

Was her surname Crosby ?

Yes, but ... Fanny Jane Crosby was responsible for To God be the glory* inter alia. O love that wilt not let me go was written by George Matheson when Parish Minister of Innellan; the tune was composed by Albert Peace, organist of Glasgow Cathedral at the time.


* A while back a reference was made in a thread I now cannot trace to a diverting Marian parody of Fanny Crosby's hymn - does anyone remember this?

[ 13. April 2012, 20:06: Message edited by: Metapelagius ]

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