Listening to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Baker/Israel Phil/Bernstein), it occurs to me that although so much of the finest music is sad, this cycle may be the most...
But what would you nominate?
But what would you nominate?
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can I mention a non classical song?
Oh well, I will anyway !!
In Germany Before the War. Randy Newman.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man. -
Jakob Handl's Ecce quomodo moritur iustusComment
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Kennen Sie fröhliche Musik? Ich nicht. (Franz Schubert)Originally posted by verismissimo View Post
(Do you know any joyful music? I don't)Comment
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Beethoven String Quartet No 13 in B flat - CavatinaComment
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Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Brahms Symphony no 3 - third movementComment
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Arthur Bliss,Morning Heroes (Dawn on the Somme).Comment
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The last movement of Bartok's 6th string quartetComment
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This is so sad.
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Elgar SospiriComment
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The closing pages of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony -and yes, I mean the great blaze of C major as well as the long C minor coda that follows it...Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostComment
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Well, there are some other obvious contenders:
Tchaikovsky Pathetique (4th movmt)]
Mahler 9th Sym (4th mvmt)
Schubert Unfinished Symphony (1st movmt)
Schubert D960 (2nd mvmt)
Schubert D956 (2nd mvmt)
Britten 3rd Qt
Suk Asrael Symphony
Liszt RW Venezia
Bruckner 9th Sym (3rd mvt)
Beethoven 7th Sym (Allegretto)
Brahms Piano Qt in C Minor
Walton 1st symphony (Adagio)Comment
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Versa est in luctum by Alonso Lobo, preferably sung (exquisitely) by Ex Cathedra under Jeffrey Skidmore.Comment
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