Most haunting song ever

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-11-29 11:33am

well I should also point out that my favorite love songs are:

"She moved through the faire"
and
"Last Kiss"

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2007-12-23 02:32am

I can think of several haunting songs:

Schubert's Standchen
Rachmaninoff's Vocalise
(instrumental version)
William Bolcom's Graceful Ghost Rag
Brahms' Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op. 118 No. 6
Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 72
Tchaikovsky's Barcarolle
Chopin's Nocturne no. 21 in C minor Posth.
Anyone who saw The Pianist will recognize this one. Supposedly, this was the very last thing Polish radio broadcasted just before the Nazis took over. At the war's end, it was the very first thing broadcasted.
Schumann's Traumerei
Ironically a German composed this piece, chosen to honor the 20 million Russians killed by playing it continuously at a war monument in a museum.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-23 04:48am

I was watching the Top of the Pops Christmas special yesterday, which is pretty much the last place where you'd expect to find haunting songs, but between Destiny's Child and Boney M there was this piece: Walking in the Air (TOTP had the cover, this is the original).

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-23 04:53am

And for reasons unknown, Aled Jones is still around.... The fellow is quite strange at times.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2007-12-30 11:04am

Jeff Buckley did a cover of Strange Fruit... It sounds less haunting, but equally beaituful

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2007-12-30 05:40pm

Just listening to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" reminded me how melancholy the first and last movement are.