Melancholic music

[Mozart]

Melancholic sounds like some sort of poisonous bacteria. Anyways some requests please? I can only listen to the 1st mov of op 131 so much.

[imperfection]

Andante from Mahler's 6

[ezodisy]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ygytlmfjmnk/Ginzburgop25-7.mp3

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYNiRaeJEA

[rappy]

Beethoven, Bach and Schubert!

Examples:

Beethoven, Op. 101 - especially the first movement Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung.
Beethoven, symphony no. 9 d minor, 3. Adagio molto e cantabile

Schubert, sonatas for piano D985 C minor, D960 Bb major

Bach, Goldberg with Glenn Gould from 1981

And don't forget: R. Strauss' Four Last Songs (Janowitz/Karajan is my recommendation)

So very beautiful music...

[greg]

Andante from Mahler's 6

If this is the Mozart I know posting, he'll completely ignore this suggestion. But it's a very good one!

[marvinbrown]

Melancholic sounds like some sort of poisonous bacteria. Anyways some requests please? I can only listen to the 1st mov of op 131 so much.

  One word...CHOPIN!  Even his most "upbeat" melodies have a hint of melancholia in them and those preludes and nocturnes  0:)...... well give them a spin and hear for yourself!

  marvin

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Some personal faves:

Mahler: 2nd mvt. from Das Lied von der Erde, "Der Einsame im Herbst" (The Lonely Man in Autumn - pretty much says it all)

Brahms: 3rd mvt. from his 1st Piano Trio, Op. 8 (actually a lot of Brahms could go on such a list)

Schnittke: Act 3 of Peer Gynt

[The new erato]

The finale of Beethoven op 109.

The slow movements of several of Beethoven late quartets (eg Heilige Dankgesang and the Adagio in op 127) comes to mind.

[c#minor]

i second Chopin, even in the upbeat music there is still a sadness too it

[Sef]

Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela

[Keemun]

Here are a couple that come to mind.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Funeral March (2nd mvt.)
Schubert: Winterreise

[Novi]

Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte

[not edward]

Schmidt's 4th symphony. About the ne plus ultra of sad but non-theatrically so music for me.
A lot of Busoni's later orchestral works, for example Sarabande und Cortege and Berceuse elegiaque).
Strauss Four Last Songs.
Schubert's late piano sonatas (particularly D894 and D960); also Winterreise.
The epilogue to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (large parts of his first violin/piano sonata would do very well here too).
and, of course, lots and lots of Brahms.

For the more adventurous, I'd second Spitvalve's suggestion of the third act of Schnittke's Peer Gynt, and add the desperately sad finale of Ligeti's horn trio.

[Brian]

Barber's adagio, anyone? What about Strauss' Metamorphosen?

[eyeresist]

Elgar's Cello Concerto

Adagio from Bruckner's 9th symphony

[Keemun]

A rather depressing work is Pettersson's Symphony No. 7.  It also has some incredibly beautiful parts, but not in a cheerful, non-melancholic way. 

[Mozart]

Well I will try some of these out thanks.

and, of course, lots and lots of Brahms.

I never really saw Brahms as melancholic...in fact it's strange, I love Brahms but he doesn't get me emotional. Brahms is..well I can't think, I'm listening Beethoven's 127 now, this is perfect.

Schubert: Winterreise

I've heard of this before, what type of composition is it?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I've heard of this before, what type of composition is it?

It's a song cycle - voice and piano.

As far as melancholic, one of the greatest musical expressions of this state of mind has to be Mozart's great Adagio in B minor for solo piano. However, instead of crippling depression, you'll come away from the experience renewed. Especially in Uchida's hands.

[Mozart]

Mozart in b minor? He like never used that key. I'll have to find it!

Melancholic music doesn't make me particularly sad. It just suits the mood sometimes.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Strangely Uchida's recording of the Adagio in B minor (K.540) is difficult to find. I went looking for a cover pic and all I could scrape up was the cassette. Here's the cover (same as CD):