Music to Cry For

[dualazmak]

Congaudentes exultemus · Schola Solensis · Gregorian Chant · Halvor J. Østtveit

 

[dualazmak]

AS PRAIAS DESERTAS · MORELENBAUM2 · Ryuichi Sakamoto

All of the 16 tracks in the CD (or HiRes download) are really wonderful and amazing recording quality; highly recommended...

 

[JustAnandaDourEyedDude]

Some movies have certainly moved me to tears. Music? Not usually intrinsically, but perhaps sometimes through an association with some personal memories. But some music can certainly fit and intensify my occasional melancholy mood. Examples:

Fairport Convention / Sandy Denny play "A Sailor's Life" off the CD Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention / Sandy Denny play "Crazy Man Michael" off the CD Liege and Lief

Bella Hardy sings "Cruel Mother" aka "The Greenwood Side" on the CD In The Shadow Of Mountains

Cat Stevens sings "Sad Lisa" on the CD Tea For The Tillerman

Miki Howard covers "Strange Fruit" on the CD Miki Sings Billie

Emily Sangder sings "It Never Entered My Mind" from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher And Higher

Carla Bruni sings ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All"

Bobby Goldsboro sings his big hit "Honey" live

Cassandra Wilson sings "I'll Be Seeing You" on her 2015 Billie Holiday tribute CD Coming Forth By Day

Bobby Gentry sings "Ode To Billie Joe" live on the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv33eaygVDQ

Rebecca Ferguson covers "Don't Explain" on her 2015 Billie Holiday tribute CD Lady Sings The Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5q24kZRRU

Jacqui Hamilton covers Janis Ian's "At Seventeen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezdETwVSQY

Laura Fygi covers Don McLean's "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" on her CD Jazz Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pHRrX7LwlY

Barbra Streisand sings Johnny Mercer's "Autumn Leaves" which was based on Joseph Kosma's "Les Feuilles Mortes" (french), on her 1966 CD Je m'appelle Barbra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRvvorZ4ic

Elina Duni covers Leo Ferre's "Avec Le Temps" on her CD Baresha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKDugc9E7o

Soprano Anita Rachvelishvili has a new CD out, titled "Elegie", which includes some melancholy songs.

 

[nozelos]

something very very recent

(I'm very new to the forum and I'm loving every minute. what a great community)

 

[Martin]

These get me:

https://youtu.be/2lyZQB1H_Zw

https://youtu.be/fNlxKH9Jtmc

Martin

 

[dualazmak]

I do not know why I have tears in my eyes on this really simple and short track whenever I listen to album of JS Bach's "Inventions and Sinfonias" at quiet peaceful sunset time...
J.S. Bach: Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797

 

[dualazmak]

Bach - Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 691

 

[Buster]

Billie and Lester. Never fails to bring a tear. Especially when you know the history.

 

[KikoKentaurus]

Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture"
Taneyev "Stars"

 

[EB1000]

One on the best performances of The ecstasy of gold I ever heard...

 

[dualazmak]

G.B. Bononcini - Siedi, amarilli - G. Lesne (1 of 2)

G.B. Bononcini - Siedi, amarilli - G. Lesne (2 of 2)

CDC 5 45000 2 Virgin: Virgin Classics Ltd.

 

[dualazmak]

MA Charpentier_ Lecsons de Tenebres Office du Vendredi Saint: Psaume 26: Dominus illuminatio mea H226

Veritas 0777 7 59295 2 2 Virgin Classics Ltd. with Il Seminario Musicale

 

[Semla]

Dido's Lament, from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Annie Lennox on this aria:

 

[Semla]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

[dualazmak]

@semla,
Let me follow you with nice and charming "Dido and Aeneas (complete)" by Voices of Music and San Francisco Girls Chorus;
I was one of the audiences in this really wonderful concert. I had tears several times...

 

[dualazmak]

Carlo Gesualdo: Miserere, The Hilliard Ensemble

POCJ-1065/6 ECM Records - Polydor

 

[dualazmak]

Knut Nystedt (JS Bach): Immortal Bach · Ensemble 96 · Øystein Fevang;

2L29SACD 2L Recordings 2.8 MHz 1 bit DSF downloaded from e-Onkyo site; Ensemble 96, conductor Oystein Fevang, in Oslo

 

[dualazmak]

J.S. Bach: Fantasia in A Minor BWV 904; Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord 4K UHD

by piano, I like this one best...
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in A Minor BWV 904; Ivo Janssen, piano

 

[Vict0r]

Something about the sound of his voice in combination with the poetic lyrics makes me bust into tears if I'm not careful. Nostalgia, longing, acceptance, subdued rebellion, pride... My poor heart is no match.

"When loneliness spreads out between our sheets
Our sacrifice is a knife at the throat of time
But we shall cut it up some other day
For what binds us to our grief
Binds the sculptor to his clay"

 

[dualazmak]

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Tendres Plaintes (Rondeau) - Pièces de Clavecin
(Scott Ross)

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Tendres Plaintes (Rondeau) - Pièces de Clavecin
(Gustav Leonhardt)

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Tendres Plaintes (Rondeau) - Pièces de Clavecin
(William Christie)