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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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mahgister
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Chet Baker in Jazz plays and sings the most sad melody renditions....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOEIQKczRPY

Try Billie Holiday in his last years....If you dont have tears look for a heart....

:)

For violin: Barber adagio for strings.... My favorite....

Schindler list by Perlman....Also

I forgot spiegel im spiegel of Arvo Part...... The best there is....
with Gorecki tears symphony.....

These 4 are hard to beat..... 😥
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noromance
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Then there’s the soundtrack of Pan’s Labyrinth by Javier Navarrete.
https://youtu.be/PycyNwpikMA
cal91 OP
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I look forward to hearing all of the suggestions. I just enjoyed a CD I've had for a while but never listened to; Bach's The Art of Fugue played by the Emerson String Quartet. A superb recording. Bach never ceases to amaze me. Thanks to all.
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mahgister
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Try the Delme quartet, instead of the more well known Emerson.... :)

The transcription is made by Robert Simpson a great English composer himself..... Delme quartet is astounding in depth and tempi....Hyperion....
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Peter Warlock - The Curlew.  Particularly the Ian Partridge recording but that sounds rather dated. Mark Padmore’s recording is much more recent and you get Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge and some William Blake songs too.

Peter Hammill (solo and with Van der Graaf Generator) has some fine moments of misery. The tract “Out” from Out of Water, inspired by the death of his brother for instance and “My Room” from Still Life (VDGG) come to mind and the album Over (once you get past the first track). He can be something of an acquired taste though.

Another swan piece, this time Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela from the Lemminkäinen Suite  - play this at my funeral.


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