What music makes you cry?

[Dave2002]

The title says it!

[vinteuil]

none.

[Paul Sherratt]

Dave2etc,

Lump in the throat & choke moments usually come by complete surprise.
Now I DON'T mind admitting that when driving along the A500 towards Nantwich one
sunny morning recently, THIS random-ipod-item absolutely tore me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQs3jZbxFTQ

[Panjandrum]

none.

Pop
Background muzak
Inappropriate use of classical music (eg TV soundtracks)

[Paul Sherratt]

'eck Panjandrum, you must be constantly in danger of serious dehydration !

[Uncle Monty]

I come from a long line of blubberers, so this is no problem!

Just about anything by Vaughan Williams is liable to set me off. Well, perhaps not The Running Set

Sibelius 5, without fail.

Borodin Quartet 2.

Quite a lot of Purcell -- esp. Death of Queen Mary.

Singing (I use the word loosely in my case) certain Tudor motets used to get me.

Some harmonic sequences do it as well.

Being the middle of an orchestra cranking up to the finale of any big symphony usually means I'm pretty dewy-eyed by the time I stand up to face the audience!

I'm glad I'm such a stable character (twitch, twitch)

[Threni]

Respighi: Pines of Rome, final movement

[Norfolk Born]

Increasingly, certain passages of Elgar, including the opening of the violin concerto and the end of the 2nd symphony. He seems to evoke a sense of loss - generalized, rather than personal. I'm not sure what it is that's been lost - a collective certainty or confidence?

[amateur51]

All sorts, depending on my mood, the occasion etc.

The final trio from Der Rosenkavalier does it every time for certain ...

This is a rather interventionist example but I think it's rather wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZt_JlEyb8

Why don't we have a 'blubbing' emoticon?

[Panjandrum]

'eck Panjandrum, you must be constantly in danger of serious dehydration !

Weeping buckets Paul

[3rd Viennese School]

The usual Gerrman Lieders in the second half of Performance on 3. By Schum a.
Bored to tears. Can't they play anything else!!??

[Barbirollians]

Sospiri and any thing by the appalling Chris de Burgh - but for completely different reasons !

[Petrushka]

Very little makes me reach for the Kleenex but this does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEp9mZqLLcw

[Pianorak]

Many years ago listening to Mark Tully's "Something Understood" I heard this song, the beginning of which I had missed, which stayed with me from then on. I had no idea what it was, but years later I heard it again and it turned out to be Peggy Lee singing "Is that all there is" - and it stopped me in my tracks. Didn't shed a tear - but it was close.

[Mandryka]

The trio from Rosenkavalier does it for me, too.

Also:

Wotan's Abschied from Die Walkure

Quintet from Die Meistersinger

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWqEfvoPFw

It had been on my radar for the best part of 20 years, until one day I actually found myself LISTENING to the lyrics. Ever since, it's never failed to make me well up.