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I love sad music

I'm talking about music that when you're feeling down will make you feel worse. I don't want uplifting or inspirational. Some of Chopin's more melancholic works can do it for me.  I don't listen to country, but George Jones singing "It's a good day for the roses" is about as sad a song as you will find. Leonard Cohen's "Alexandra leaving" is another sad song. I have everything Davis and Coltrane recorded, so I'm looking for recommendations for the most beautiful but depressing music you've ever heard. I want to hear a violin, my favorite instrument, that will bring tears to your eyes. I know this is a strange request but some of the best music comes from dark places. Thanks
cal91
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arcam88
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Peter Gabriel "I Grieve"
From the album "Up"
One of my all time favorites and an "audiophile" recording imho😎
oregon
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Julie London- Cry Me a River
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danvignau
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The saddest music I ever heard was a video of what seemed to be a very old, drug addled lady, leaning onto a grand piano, who was trying her best to sound as distraught as the best actor in the world could do.  The saddest part is that the singer was not only truly terrible, but that it was Stephen Tyler.  Sorry Steve, Dan V from FtL H-D.
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spiritofradio
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@richdirector+1 on the Josienne Clark

+1 to all that mentioned the Górecki.   I can point you to two good recordings of this on LP.  
Henryk Górecki
Symphony No. 3 Opus 36 (1976)
Nonesuch 2016
075597949544 

Recorded May 1991 at CTS Studios, London
Dawn Upshaw Vocals
David Zinman conducting the London Sinfonietta 

This record was mastered by Bernie Grundman

the second is:

Henryk Górecki
Symphony No. 3 (Symphony
   Of Sorrowful Songs) Op. 36
Domino (UK) 2019
887828039517

Beth Gibbons Vocals
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Interestingly, Beth Gibbons is the vocalist from the trip hop band Portishead.  If you’re inclined to be nonplussed by that information resist that urge.  
I believe they both have their merits.  
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sacdal
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Looking for Answers by Susan Tedeschi on Just Won't Burn
You Mean So Much to Me by Sea Level on Ball Room
To Be Without You by Ryan Adams on Prisoner
Belief by John Mayer try the Village Sessions
Eva Cassidy Acoustic  f cancer
Chris Cornell  
The Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee

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