What's music that brings you to tears? Discussions welcome!

in music •  7 years ago 

Well, what a pathetic question!

I am myself no one that likes those inflational, artifcial and superficial vomiting of emotion really everywhere in todays music or casting shows on TV which is absolutely predictable and obviously all about financial commerce.
The same thing with pop or classical-pop.

"Did you hear 'River flows in you'?", my pupils ask me, "it brings me to tears everytime I am listening to it, the best music on earth"...

I have to admit, I am really struggeling at such moments.
Another example is Cohen's "Hallelujah", one of the most overvalued songs in my opinion ever since the priest sang it on a marriage ceremony, went viral on youtube, facebook, etc.
Well, I don't want to bother those who listen to that and like it, it is no bad song (while "River flows in you" in my opinion is pure shit musically), but have you experienced the rich world of classical music? With classical music I don't mean Yiruma, THAT'S NO CLASSICAL MUSIC, IT IS A FOUR CHORD POP SONG WITH A TRIVIAL MELODY POORLY PLAYED ON THE PIANO!
My pupils who never played any note on a piano in their whole life play this one after barely a half year of playing. At this state they are even not able to play a two voiced piece of the book for Anna-Magdalena-Bach, just to give you the relation, because it is fact, that many people tell me (with most conviction) that Yiruma must be the best piano player on earth! NO JOKE!

This makes me cry!

But I don't want to stay with those superficial examples of unsustainable emotional drain.

I want to give you an example of music that brings me to tears on some rare moments. I think if every TV Music Show and every second pop-ballad brings someone to tears it can't be very meaningful. I think true meaningful and emotional moments within music or arts are something that has to be quite rare otherwise it would not make any sense, like with money inflation. If there is too much around it looses it's worth (some may say "hey just the same with steem", but that brings us off-topic).

So without further beating around the bush here is some music example that touches my heart and perhaps so it does to yours. Just the beginning of the the third movement from Mahlers fourth symphony.

Those things somehow just had to be said and why not post them here on steemit. I really would love to read your opinion or even some music-example that has emotional meaning to you in the comments.

Thank you for reading my post,

@senzenfrenz

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Hehe, I think that I cry too much. Good thing that you ask for actual tears and not melancholy.

Purcell - Lament of Dido - Katherine Bott

Shostakovich - String quartet 8 - Borodin Quartet

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Jakob Knudsen & Oluf Ring - Se nu stiger solen - DR vokal ensemble

Carl Michael Bellman - Fredmans Epistel no. 82 - Fred Åkerström

Plenty more, but these are highlights...

P.S. I never saw being moved to tears as a simple matter. I can sometimes cry to both Sibelius or Mozart or other from pure beauty - sometimes it is also contextual - Strange Fruit is partly that and partly the fantastic clash between the (almost too) clever lyrics and Billie Holidays incredible singing - I considered a special version of Don't Explain that actually has the same. Danish choir-music is very much a thing that is deeply borrowed in me due to me being raised here and having experienced good and bad things to the same music. Almost the same can be said about Swedish music where I also grew up in my early years. But it has to be great art.

Interesting topic!

I notice, that I haven't listened to sad music in a while.

Ususally I find soundtracks very emotional, like the first song of this:


GATTACA, OST - Michael Nyman (1997)

  1. The Morrow

And the Betty Blue OST, because the movie touches me, whenever I watch it:


Betty Blue - Betty et Zorg

From more recent music, I think a lot of songs by Portishead are were sad:


Portishead - Roads

And finnaly here is a jazzy song, that I heard a lot of times, when I didn't feel good:


Elvis Costello - Almost Blue

I love Betty Blue. After watching the film I decided that life was to short for sane women... then I meet my wife!

Wise decision ;-) I went the other way and married a crazy woman...
Betty Blue is one of my all time favorite movies and I was happy to see Béatrice Dalle once at the Cannes Film Festival. I have also read lots of books by Philippe Djian and even managed to get a signed copy when he was on a reading tour in Cologne. So I guess, I'm kind of a fan boy ;-)

Oh, my wife was not sane at all... she was exactly a local version of Beatrice Dalle, beautiful and edgy and complicated. She still is actually, but I have become an expert husbond...

my wife [...] was exactly a local version of Beatrice Dalle, beautiful and edgy and complicated.

Haha, I got that wrong at first. Seems like no one can alienate ;-)

I have become an expert husbond...

Congrats, I failed with my first marriage and married a less complicated woman on the second attempt. Don't know, if I will ever become an expert husband...

I especially like the Gattaca Movie and Soundtrack! Thank you for your impressions.

You're welcome :-) Gattaca is one of my favorite movies, too.

Thanks for attending the 1st Steemit Meetup in Bonn. Was great to get to know you ;-)
Until next time!

Thank you for making it possible!

An acoustic piano playing a nostalgic feel on its own does it for me.

I give you one of my favourites - however, the list is so long, I guess I will make a post about it in the next few days :-)
Schubert, Impromtu No 3 G flat - and it has to be either Alfred Brendel playing it :-)

Or Vladimir Horowitz

Schubert...for sure...and Brendel too:) But always consider Andras Schiff on his Boesendorfer:)

Andras Schiff is on the list as well ;-)

Thumps up!

Thank you @cornholio!