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Alright, I need some beautiful yet sad classical songs. Any suggestions?

I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.

It's not strictly classical, but it's darn close...Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings. It was used for President Kennedy's funeral, and in the movies Platoon and Lorenzo's Oil.

Vivaldi - Winter (from The Four Seasons)

Wagner - Funeral March (from Twilight of the Gods)

The Four Seasons was by Vivaldi, iirc.

Bach's Cello Suites as performed by Yo-yo Ma.

Requiem, K 626 by Mozart

Air on a G-String (seriously) from Suite No. 3 by Bach

St. Matthew Passion, Final Chorus by Bach

Nathan F wrote:The Four Seasons was by Vivaldi, iirc.

Shit on a stick, you're right! That's what I get for not getting enough sleep.

Another good one:

Chopin- Etude In C Minor Op. 25 No. 12

kojikun wrote:Bach's Cello Suites as performed by Yo-yo Ma.

koji doesn't know what he's talking about. Get 'em by Pablo Casals. (and ver has more say, being a classical instrumentalist - Ma doesn't have *nearly* the amount of tone or passion Casals does)

Or check out this thread for loads of classical reccommendations.

~ver

Nathan F wrote:I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.

I don't recall Mozart doing a "Greensleeves," but Ralph Vaughan-Williams certainly did.

Speaking of him, check out his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Would fit the bill nicely.

How about Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata? Also, the Allegretto from his 7th Symphony.

Brahms - his songs can be quite melancholy. Highly recommend them for somberness. Also, the third movement from Symphony No. 3 is justly famous as a bit of sadness.

Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children).

Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death. Also bits from his opera Boris Godunov are quite gloomy.

Puccini - "E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca is a rather despairing tenor aria.

Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor - finest chamber work of the 20th century.

That's but a smattering.

First and fourth movements of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.

J.S. Bach - Ich Ruf' Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 and Prélude and Fugue in f# (don't have the bwv on me sorry, but book two of the well tempered clavier) and "The B Minor Mass" BWV 232

Another "contemporary" classical composition I quite like is Of Hearth and Home by Brandon Strevell. I might be a bit biased, since the composer is something of a friend of mine , but it's a really, really nice piece, regardless.

Baron Scarpia wrote:

Nathan F wrote:I've always liked Mozart - Greensleeves, but that's just me.

I don't recall Mozart doing a "Greensleeves," but Ralph Vaughan-Williams certainly did.

I was thinking that Mozart was the original composer of it...but I'm very possibly mistaken.

Does anyone know who truly composed the "Greensleeves" that King Henry VIII supposedly composed?