...Music To Console?

[Guest]

...Listening to Rob this Morning I heard the beautiful Oboe Playing of Heinz Holliger &
was reminded of the Bach Concerto CD he made(not just JS)-just how consoling that
planitive, pleading quality of this Musician of Musician's Instruments can be. After my Father's passing,this was the CD I seemed to listen to continually...
YOUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS?

[Cellini]

I'm INCONSOLABLE, Fred ...

[Freddie Campbell]

...Because you hav'nt listened to my London String Ensemble...

https://www.fredjamesc.com

[Cellini]

I have and I'm still inconsolable.

[Freddie Campbell]

...Love of a good woman?

[Freddie Campbell]

...Serious Replies Please?

[Freddie Campbell]

...Come on you Guys?

[Bert Coules]

These are two of the pieces I chose to be played at my mother's funeral: Solveig's song from Grieg's Peer Gynt, and Schumann's op15 no 7, Dreaming from Scenes of Childhood. I suppose that both are at the pop-ish end of the classical spectrum but they were particular favourites of hers and their beautiful haunting restful simplicity fitted the occasion perfectly. I still find both pieces consoling in the extreme.

[vinteuil]

...Serious Replies Please?

well, my serious reply wd be - that when in a state of serious grief - death of a loved one - I can't cope with music at all: what I want is silence.

when it comes to later on, or with lesser unhappinesses - well, there's lots of music I like and might turn to - but I don't turn to music for 'consolation' - for me music isn't 'therapy'.

[MickyD]

I'm inclined to agree with you about grief, Vinteuil. When my partner died I was quite surprised to find that I couldn't bear to listen to any music at all, and even when I felt more like it, favourite pieces often brought back the tears.

[Dave2002]

These are two of the pieces I chose to be played at my mother's funeral: Solveig's song from Grieg's Peer Gynt, and Schumann's op15 no 7, Dreaming from Scenes of Childhood. I suppose that both are at the pop-ish end of the classical spectrum but they were particular favourites of hers and their beautiful haunting restful simplicity fitted the occasion perfectly. I still find both pieces consoling in the extreme.

I had Dvorak's New World - 2nd movement - at my mother's funeral. She liked it. I'm afraid it was played so lugubriously by the organist as to become almost unrecognisable. I don't want to hear that played that way ever again.

[BBMmk2]

For my uncle's Memorial Service(he was quite a prominent man in York), he wanted VW's Lark Ascending played, my brother said that was too long! Instead, my brother asked his middle daughter to sing(she does have a very good voice), Panis Angelicus! I would have thought that VWs Lark Asacending be more appropriate?

[Mandryka]

The final movement of the Franck Violin Sonata always has a very positive effect on me: 'life goes on' is the message I take from it.

[Flosshilde]

I don't know if it counts as 'consoling', but for many years, when I was feeling depressed (& I don't mean just a bit fed up) I would play Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex'. It has some very invigorating music, & however bad I felt my problems were they weren't nearly as bad as Oedipus'.

[Cellini]

I find the thought of my own death quite consoling.