I didn’t cry! (Elgar)

Oh Lord and Father of Mankind
Brahms piano concerto

Iam64 oh yes, ‘Lord & Father of Mankind’ definitely

Mario Lanza singing Golden Days from the Student Prince.
Beautiful.

Ditto to Panis Angelicus - the version on a CD by a niece’s school choir. She sang the solo, in a very pure and sweet soprano. TBH it beats any version I’ve ever heard on Classic FM!

Another one even more guaranteed to have me groping for the tissues, is little kids singing Away In A Manger at a school Nativity play.

When sung by proper choirs, not mucked about, I’d add,
Abide With Me
The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended
and
Eternal Father Strong To Save (For Those In Peril On The Sea) because it was my father’s favourite - he spent two WW2 years on the terribly dangerous RN N Atlantic convoys, and it was played at his funeral.

Same for me Witzend My Dad was on a RN ship trying to protect those convoys. We used to sing this hymn at school and I still well up when I hear it.
Elgar too. Nimrod, and the "Praise" chorus in his Dream of Gerontius. I was once in a choir singing this and when "Praise" broke out I burst into tears and couldn't sing

Always Elgar’s cello concerto. Too much choral music to mention. I saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake Cityyears ago and I was reduced to a snivelling wreck.

Witzend

When sung by proper choirs, not mucked about, I’d add,
Abide With Me
The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended
and
Eternal Father Strong To Save (For Those In Peril On The Sea) because it was my father’s favourite - he spent two WW2 years on the terribly dangerous RN N Atlantic convoys, and it was played at his funeral.

For me those first two just evoke bad memories of Sunday evening services at boarding school …depressing but not “moving” !

I think one reason I find Abide With Me so poignant, is because it was written by someone who knew he was dying.

As an aside, I was somehow very moved to hear it played back in about 1974, at the first military tattoo ever held in Oman, where I’d moved to with dh as a newlywed.

The military band who played it was new - like many things in Oman at the time - and not exactly note-perfect, but I was amazed to hear it at all, at an official do in a Muslim country.

I can only assume that Sultan Qaboos, who was present at the event, had become fond of it during his years at Sandhurst.
I also well remember him laughing his head off at the antics of the U.K. White Helmets motorbike team - which I believe were disbanded some years ago - such a shame, they were brilliant.

Elgar really presses the buttons doesn’t he? His Dream of Gerontius gets to me.
Mahler adagio (Death in Venice)
Can’t listen to Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World as mum’s favourite or Bach Oratorios, late husband sang bass in them.

A recording of Brahms requiem performed by DD's school, they had to borrow a few fathers for the male voices as it was an all girls school.

Lovely thread OP, thanks for starting.
No mentions of Bach yet, he’s my number one composer and so much of his work gives me the shivers but the opening and closing choruses of the St Matthew Passion always make me cry (just tested this!).
Also Purcell - Dido’s Farewell
Samual Barber - Adagio for Strings
Schubert - most of the songs in derbWinterreise

Remember Me (and I will be with you) by Christy Hennessey. Amazon music played it randomly to me a few days after DH's funeral. Beautiful lyrics, but brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
For similar reasons, You'll never walk alone and Abide with Me.

Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Adagietto, is so melancholy yet beautiful, it always makes me cry. It was the background music to the film Death in Venice, such a wonderful film.
Also the lyrics of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas always reduces me to tears.
For very personal reasons, Bryan Adams Everything I do, I do it for You, renders me absolutely useless for the rest of the day and I collapse in a tearful heap on the sofa. Even after all these years.

Witzend
My father was 19 yrs when he went as a signalman on the Russian convoys. I didn’t know a thing about it until I was in my 30s.

So many make me cry.

Art Garfunkel singing Song for the Asking is my Waterloo and Fool on the Hill from the Beatles. Both were songs that OH and I used to listen to at uni, and now that he has died they open the floodgates in a big way. Such a pity as I would love to enjoy them again.

They must have been a nightmare, MerylStreep - so freezing cold! The N Atlantic was surely bad enough in winter. My DF hardly talked of it, but my mother knew, and told us, of 50 foot waves, and they were in very small RN ships.

My mother had knitted him very thick woolly socks, which we used as Christmas stockings for a long time.

If ever The Cruel Sea came on TV, my father would leave the room - he was a very jolly type but evidently there were too many dreadful memories. He had served on a ship with the author, Nicholas Montserrat, and apparently told my mother that he was a sh*t!

You'll Never Walk Alone & Abide With Me (post Hillsborough)
The Same Sun, Chris de Burgh. Played ad infinitum after my dog died in 2000.

I have often been so overcome when singing in choir that I have had to stop for a while as I can't sing for sobbing. This can happen at any time during
a Bach oratorio and there's a bar - just a single bar - in Vivaldi's Gloria which takes my breath every time, whether singing or listening.

Anything to do with the end of the Cold War has me in tears, as epitomised in Billy Joel's "Leningrad"

I've got a new one... 67,000 people singing the second verse of Flower of Scotland a capella in Murrayfield for the first time in 2 years. I was quite overcome!

The Bonny Banks O' Loch Lomand .

Dance with my Father.

Bridge over troubled waters

Alegrais yep that would do it for me.
In fact just being at Murrayfield

Bright Eyes by Simon and Garfunkle.

Adagio - Mahler 5

Softly as I leave you, - Matt Monro - so sad

Tristan & Isolde - liebestod

Chariots of Fire - theme music

Many of the above.
Also Aksel Rykkvin, as a 13 year old boy soprano singing Laudate Dominum. He is now a rich baritone!