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19 lip 2023 · Looking for sad classical music? Here are some of the most beautiful and heart-breaking pieces of vocal and instrumental music ever written.
6 wrz 2019 · Bach - 'Erbarme dich, mein Gott' from St Matthew Passion The great Baroque composer's Holy Week masterpieces are epic emotional journeys. This aria comes just after Peter denied knowing Jesus three times and went out to the garden for a bit of a cry.
1 dzień temu · BBC Music Magazine. Published: October 18, 2024 at 6:39 am. Some pieces – operas, in particular – set out to make you cry. It would take a stony-hearted listener not to tear up, at least a little, as they have their heartstrings pulled by master manipulators such as Verdi in La traviata, Puccini in Madam Butterfly or Janáček in Jenůfa.
Saddest/darkest/most depressing classical piano pieces that come to mind? A few off the top of my head: Rachmaninoff: Etude Tableaux in Eb minor Op.39 No.5 - An oppressive, brooding piece displaying pain and misery, as most pieces in Eb minor.
27 lis 2023 · One forum contributor considers her earliest memory of crying to a piece to be when she first listened to Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor. Another contributor opines that Passacaglia ushers one into a “Numinous and otherworldly” emotional state.
I recommend one of my favorite composers -- Shostakovich -- for extortionate sadness: Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 13 This one-movement string quartet is miserable all the way through, but the ending is particularly biting, with the viola wavering way up at the top of its range (that final scream is mostly the viola, not the violins)
I’ve been wanting to listen to more classical music. A lot of the pieces of heard are really pretty, even Heavenly. I’m more attracted to sadder pieces, and I feel like the sad, heartbreaking pieces utilize certain instruments really well such as pianos and strings, especially violins/viola.
