What is your favourite piece of Sad Classical Music?
Posted in Blog on 02. Feb, 2010
Hi All!
I have always been a lover of sad songs. Especially sad classical music. There is just something about a really emotional music passage played on a suite of strings that really moves me. I just can’t listen to Pop – unless there is something truly special in the music, something very emotional and raw, I just can’t get into it. This is why I started this site about sad classical music as I want the opportunity to share with others the great pieces I have heard, and also so that I can learn more about pieces of sad classical music that are currently unknown to me.
I have heaps (and heaps!) of ideas for this site, and tons more posts about sad classical music in mind to help you build your own collection. I intend to keep adding to this list all the time, and build the largest collection of sad classical music on the web if I can (big task I know, but have to aim for something!).
But besides all of my own thoughts (which you can read as time goes on) I would be really interested in yours.
Leave a comment below on what sad classical music means to you, and list your favourite piece or pieces. You know, those ones that make your heart beat a little faster and eyes well up every time you hear them (even when people are around to witness it!). If you have been reading this blog for a while, you may have noticed that I take the term ‘sad’ pretty broadly. I really want to build a collection of all those classical music pieces that are emotional, powerful and melancholy.
Can’t wait to read your thoughts!
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prelud by bethoveen rocks.not literaly of course its classic music.da
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prelud by beetoven
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I recommend you to listen to Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia and Andante Festivo.
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Here’s my top 10:
10.Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
9. W.A.Mozart’s Kyrie from the Great Mass in C Minor
8. Frederic Chopin’s Funeral March
7. Saint-Saens’s Requiem.
6. Franz Schubert’s Standchen (Schwanengesang)
5. L.V.Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 131 No. 14
4. Michael Haydn’s Requiem
3. Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem
2. Francesco Durante’s Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae
1. W.A.Mozart’z Requiem
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Valse Triste – Jean Sibelius…
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Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
These are my favourites
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Searched Google and been for a while here – its good so I posted the website on my Fb account!
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The following are simply the two most divine yet heart-wrenching and soul-tearing pieces of music:
1. Adgaio for Strings op.11 Samuel Barber (very moving version done by the Taliesen Orchestra – look it up on You Tube)
2. Adagio in G Minor – Albioni
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Every classical music master and composer is master of his art. It just needs to be understand. No matter sad or playful! Listen and enjoy it!
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one and the only: Albignoni – Adagio… Then nobody for ages and then as 2nd Caccini’s Ave Maria…
Barber’s Adagio rubs Albignoni’s shoulder…
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2nd movement of Kurt Atterberg’s Piano Concerto…
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Agree with the 2 adagios: Samuel Barber’s and Albinoni/Giazotto are the 2 saddest I have ever heard.
I would add Wagner’s Album Leaf to the list.
But I always felt that I ever would kill myself, I will have Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6 (1st movement, also an adagio)playing in the background.
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I always loved listening to bleach(anime) soundtracks such as nothing can be explained, never meant to belong, and soundscape to Ardor.
In short, i LOVE listening to music that i can connect to… and hack into my inner emotions..
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Petterssons Symphony #6 – dread, foreboding, tragedy, depression…almost non stop
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A discussion of other “dark” classical works
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There are simply so many! here are a few of my favs
1. Mahler: Symphony No. 5 IV Movement
2. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 “When I am laid in earth”
3. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
4. Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei deus
5. Vaughan Williams: Sea symphony IV Movement
6. Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 II Movement
7. Stockhausen: Miniatur Einer Seelenreise
8. Bizet: The Shepherd’s Farewell to the Holy Family
9. Bach: Come Sweet Death
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My all time favorite sad classical piece is Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and the runner up is the slow movement of the Ravel g minor Piano Concerto.
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Hey all
I have just discovered my love for classical music, mainly piano pieces. My favorite so far is Chopin’s Nocturnes…can anyone recommend something similar to me? Sorry if this question seems novice to some, but I don’t know where to start.
Thanks in advance.
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I agree with most of you. My favorite sad classical pieces are:
1.- Adagio For Strings & Organ in G Minor (Tomaso Albinoni)
2.- Air on a G string (Johann Sebastian Bach)
3.- Adagio For Strings (Samuel Barber)
4.- Unaccompanied Cello Suite (Johann Sebastian Bach)
But if I may, I would like to add some contemporary “classical” pieces.
1.- The Poet Acts (Philip Glass)
2.- Everyday (Carly Comando)
3.- Poem Without Words (Anne Clark)
4.- Schindler’s List Theme (Itzhak Perlman)
5.- Dead Things (Philip Glass)
6.- Melodia Africana I (Ludovico Einaudi)
7.- Love Theme (Ennio Morricone)
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Pavane for a dead princess will make your heart weep!
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Just, Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp Minor
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Beethoven-Eroica
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If you want to feel sad listening to classical music listen to late beethoven quartets played by the Busch quartet. The adagios are so moving and the Busch quartet plays with such sad inflection
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Some great tracks recommended but how about something a little different such as Ennio Morricone’s Gabriels Oboe. Or his main theme from Once Upton a Time in The West..
Jeremy Limb – Le Onde ..
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There are some great tracks listed here and I would like to add Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Part this is, a lovely piece
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