# Music so beautiful it makes you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946 "2018-05-10T22:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/21 "2018-05-11T10:29:01Z")
[Moderating] A reminder that it’s a copyright violation to post full song lyrics, and we take that seriously here. Keep it to short excerpts, in accordance with Fair Use guidelines. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/22 "2018-05-11T14:13:57Z")
John Prine [Hello in there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/23 "2018-05-11T14:32:35Z")
The [Hebrew Slaves Chorus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAqOuvR5YY) from the Verdi opera Nabucco. I am not a fan of opera, but this work gives me goose bumps. When Verdi died, the people lined the street and sang this as his coffin went by. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/24 "2018-05-11T15:05:03Z")
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/25 "2018-05-11T15:10:24Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > John Prine [Hello in there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY) That’s one for me too. Several songs from Willie Nelson’s Spirit and miscellaneous Bob Dylan songs can do it for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/26 "2018-05-11T15:11:12Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Wonderfully moving song. I think this by Jeff Buckley is the best version. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/27 "2018-05-11T15:18:47Z")
This is from the Voice UK. You can tell the singer has been through really tough times by the emotion in her voice. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/28 "2018-05-11T16:48:59Z")
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1, Movement 2 - Largo, Romance (Zimerman) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/29 "2018-05-11T17:04:15Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MHioIlbnS_A/maxresdefault.jpg "Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo (Timeless Version) (Official Music Video) [HD]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A) Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 but more the original release on Dead Winter Dead by their Savatage identity. Add the fact that we lost a branch of our kinfolk in the Bosnian War and that one just rips my heart. After reconnecting with them during the Olympic run and all ---- it just is that one song that brings tears every time. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/30 "2018-05-13T06:06:01Z")
A Spotless Rose (especially the final resolution) [King's College Cambridge 2013 #7 A Spotless Rose Herbert Howells - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfAlAz-zFlU) “Alleluia” (Randall Thompson) (especially the ending) [Randall Thompson 'Alleluia' | OU University Chorale - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQu-te2fgk) Carol of the Birds Pablo Casals [Pau Casals - El cant dels ocells (at the White House) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoX01170l0) Robert Shaw Chorale (especially the beginning of the 2nd verse, sung by the men only) [Carol of the Birds ("El cant dels ocells") - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxAinCY6Eg) ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/31 "2018-05-13T06:14:09Z")
Gene Pokorny _[Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L88--P0rgI0)_ This is a very well known work – some would even say well worn – but you never heard it like this. Still haunting and gorgeous, even though I’ve heard it a million times. (BTW, this is the selection that won Gene his job with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – even the string players who usually hate brass players loved this performance.) ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/32 "2018-05-13T07:23:34Z")
Also, most anything by Ralph Vaughn Williams, like his _[Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY)_ Who I just realized the late James Horner appropriated and downright stole from for his _[Field of Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltOge9h_Ffk)_ movie music, which also made me cry when I was in the theater. Damn his time. (Check out _The Lark Ascending_ and _Variations on Dives and Lazarus_, which also sound just like … James Horner movies. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/33 "2018-05-13T07:34:16Z")
And finally … The late Kevin Mahogany, _[When October Goes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxv1SU1iFzM)_. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/34 "2018-05-13T11:17:13Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > John Prine [Hello in there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY) Excellent contribution. I can’t imagine any music that would set me to blubberin’, but this one has been known to give me the bumps of a goose: [Jim Nabors - The Impossible Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHrqrlZYsDA) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/35 "2018-05-13T13:59:52Z")
Celtic Woman will bring tears to your eyes on many of their songs, even the ones not in English. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/36 "2018-05-13T15:54:57Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > John Prine [Hello in there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY) Me too. It was the first one ever, and there have been many since. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/37 "2018-05-13T16:03:42Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Also, most anything by Ralph Vaughn Williams, like his _[Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY)_ I love that piece. Someone gave it to me for Christmas when I was 11, with Sir Adrian Boult conducting. _searches_[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wJKXn3opY), I think. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/38 "2018-05-13T16:04:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, usually incorrectly referred to as the Pathétique due to a mistranslation from the Russian. First encountered it in my childhood and have been entranced with it ever since. > > In terms of a short piece of music, it would be _O Mio Babbino Caro_, from the opera _Gianni Schicchi_, one of the most beautiful arias ever written. [And check out this performance.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PQ7qPkluM) It has to be enough to restore one’s faith in the human race. :eek: Holy crap, what a talent! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/39 "2018-05-13T16:07:35Z")
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole singing a mashup of [‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ & ‘What A Wonderful World’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg) My go-to happy song and yeah, gets me misty-eyed sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946/40 "2018-05-13T19:22:16Z")
[At Last](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i35Tez2uYrQ), Ruby Wilson [A Song For You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4PyvkZbep4), Ruby Wilson As I’m aging, these songs become more personal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry/813946.md?page=3)