most romantically-slow, tearful piece..

[amy]

Hi!!

i need a list of some really slow, ultra romantic, inspiring, sad, (maybe mournful?) piece....!!!!!

give em alllll to me!


thank you

amy

[Antnee]

Composers and works that make you CRY

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[ChopinLoverInPA]

Chopin Prelude in C#m (Op 45) -- beautiful, sad, goosebump kind of piece....

[donjuan]

Liszt - Consolation No.2 (Even more so than No.3)
       - Funerailles

Chopin- Etude Op.25 No.7

[janice]

omg!!  don juan, you have so many posts!!  congratulations! i just noticed that!  

(maybe you will pass Bernie!! oooooo!)

[rohansahai]

Rachmaninov- Prelude in D major op 23-4
Chopin- Nocturne in C# minor, op. posth.
             Nocturne in C minor " "
Beethoven- Ecossaise in G major (Does anyone have the score)
Schubert- Impromptu in G flat
Schumann- Traumerie

[pseudopianist]

Scriabin - Etude in C sharp op2
Chopin - Raindrop

[piglet]

Well it's not sad, but have a look at Debussy's La plus que lente. What a piece...

[rlefebvr]

Rachmaninov- Prelude in D major op 23-4
Chopin- Nocturne in C# minor, op. posth.
             Nocturne in C minor " "

Yeah, baby......

[amy]

hey guys.. thanks for posting all these songs up!!!  Keep them coming!!!!

(hmm.... what Op. # is the Chopin nocturne in C# minor??)

No one likes Debussy's Valse Romantique?

haha...  Any sad pieces by Tschaikovsky? Mendelssohn? or Satie?

thanks...

[Egghead]

Hi!!

i need a list of some really slow, ultra romantic, inspiring, sad, (maybe mournful?) piece....!!!!!

give em alllll to me!


thank you

amy

what do you want the list for, btw?
Anyway: sad, gut-wrenching, mournful - Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt suite: Death of Ase.
various Schumann pieces.

[pseudopianist]

(hmm.... what Op. # is the Chopin nocturne in C# minor??)
quote]

I pretty sure it doesn't have one.

[Chrysalis]

Any sad pieces by Tschaikovsky? Mendelssohn? or Satie?

thanks...  

mendelssohn - lied ohne worte 19:1... its so pretty
also check out shubert - rosamunde 142:3 impromptu

check them out!

[donjuan]

Oh, I just thought of another Liszt- Andante Lagrimoso, from the Poetic and Religious Harmonies.
(sniff sniff )

[janice]

what do you want the list for, btw?

Yeah, I sorta wondered that too!  But maybe Amy doesn't want to tell! LOL

[bachmaninov]

Well Tchaikovsy Piano Concerto No.1

O god... his violin concerto... is.. so...good...so good

(That section in Liszt's Concerto No. 2... where theres a HUGE run in the beginning.. and its a Piano - Cello combo section... always gets me!)

Beethoven Patetique Sonata gots the stuff!!

[donjuan]

(That section in Liszt's Concerto No. 2... where theres a HUGE run in the beginning.. and its a Piano - Cello combo section... always gets me!)

oh I know what you're talking about!  However, I remember the second piano Concerto more for it's triumphant melodies in the 3rd and 4th movements.  Brilliant work!
donjuan

[rohansahai]

Saint Saens: The Swan
Schubert: Litanei

[janice]

Hey Amy, I noticed that you avoided saying why you need this list!!  hehe  So........ who is he?! LOLOLOLOL

[rab1588]

rachmaninov's elegie (op. 3 #1 im guessing)
and mostly any nocturne by chopin.

[scrabble]

Chopin's Ballade no.4 sounds mournful at some parts (and angry too).

Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (has anyone heard it?) is sad, and maybe a little hopeful, but mostly sad I think. It's written for double string orchestra, and the sound it can produce is absolutely gorgeous.  

[amy]

hey guys... wow... thanks for all the posts.... I wish i've heard all these pieces, so now i gotta try to find their recordings and then get back to you !!!

Janice and egghead... i tend to like the sadder stuff..and appreciate them more (to my ears).... i enjoy playing slower, mournful pieces because my playing has to always be emotional or have some  personal story behind it (narrating the music as i play) to help me get into it.    All the pieces i've played so far at school auditions have been narrated to the hardships and depressing memories of my ex boyfriend..... i even teared up the whole way playing Raindrop at an audition....... the jury panel was quite moved?  

that's all... nothing special.... but i will try to find these recordings!!!! ahhhh... so many!

amy

[beethoartok]

chopin's op.48 no.1 nocturne works...up until the faster ending area however..

[Jacey1973]

Rachmaninov- Prelude in D major op 23-4
Chopin- Nocturne in C# minor, op. posth.
              Nocturne in C minor " "
Beethoven- Ecossaise in G major (Does anyone have the score)
Schubert- Impromptu in G flat
Schumann- Traumerie

I was going to say that Chopin Nocturne (the C# minor one), it is soooo immensely beautiful. I think it is my favourite Chopin nocturne. I always play it when i'm feeling sad hehe...

[Jacey1973]

Lol hehe i just noticed Bachmaninov's name! Like it...

[Ernie]

Hi Amy,


You should try Mc Dowell's "To a wild rose": really easy to play, but so beautifull...    (it always works well on a concert. 

[minimozart007]

I would have to say,

the saddest piece ever is the 2nd mvmt of Beethoven's Op. 18 No. 1 Quartet.
the chords are so haunting.

[earthward]

I'm surprized no one's mentioned the Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue. It's really morose and melancholy and it works itself into a big melodramatic climax.  I got so emotionally overwhelmed the first time I performed it that I started to cry at the end. Another really emotionally overwhelming piece is scriabin's sonata no. 3. I love those kinda pieces but they're a devil to learn. 

[Bacfokievrahms]

Heh this thread makes me think of Arthur Rubinstein being bodyslammed by a gorilla.  Am I right?!

[dbrainiak914]

I do think Rach's Elegie is the saddest piece of music I've ever heard.

[thierry13]

Try Mendelsohnn's Fantaisie op.28. I don't know the two others, but the first movement is just amazing! And it's not really "romantic-slow" all along, it has parts of virtuosity, but it has major parts of "romantic-slowness". Listen to this one, it's great!

[howiehc]

Tearful:Granados The maid and the nightingale  .. it's hard not to get emotional

[donjuan]

Tearful:Granados The maid and the nightingale  .. it's hard not to get emotional

yeah, but I just dont understand the ending to that piece.

[BoliverAllmon]

I made a girl cry with satie's first gymnopedie.

[apion]

I made a girl cry with satie's first gymnopedie.

I also made a girl cry with that piece, but it was probably under different circumstances than yours .......... 

[fred smalls]

I do think Rach's Elegie is the saddest piece of music I've ever heard.

OMG Most Passionate Piece Ever!!! Soooo good!

I also made a girl cry with that piece, but it was probably under different circumstances than yours ..........

LOL

[sousa]

How about:    Chopin: Mazurka op17 no4 a-moll ,also Etude op10 no6 eb-moll                     Medtner: Sonata Reminisenza op 38 no1  Scriabin: Sonata no 3 [III]        Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical in b-minor    Scarlatti: Sonata Longo 33 in b-minor                                          LVB: Sonata op.106  [III]   JSB: Sarabande from Partita no.6 e-moll   there's tons more, but these are some of my faves. I hope you can dig on 'em.   Enjoy, Sousa

[brewtality]

Ornstein's Suicide in an Airplane. That's a real tear-jerker 

[Sasha42196]

OK, here's my input:
Bach's Prelude # 8 in e flat from WTC book 1
Rachmaninoff Vocalise
Chopin has so many, but particularly, Ballade #1, Nocturne #7 in c# minor, etude op 10 #6 in e flat minor
 

[pianomann1984]

Chopin's Ballade no.4 sounds mournful at some parts (and angry too).

Chopin Ballade No 4 is heartbreakingly sad and so passionate.  Also...can't believe noone has suggested the Etude Op 10 No 3 in E - Chopin himself said he would never write a more beauitiful melody!  Final three - Bach C-sharp minor, Eb minor and F minor preludes and fugues from book one are total tearjerkers.

PS...another three! Barber adagio for strings, John Williams' Theme from Schindler's list and Elgar Nimrod - enough to have anyone welling up!  

[virtuoso]

rachmaninoff vocalise
rachmaninoff: moment musical no 4 in b minor, this is a MUST!!!!!
chopin nocturne in c minor

[fnork]

perhaps not romantic, but Schuberts 6th moment musicaux in Ab major. So simple, in all its beauty.

[jbmajor]

Rach's Op.32 no 10 B minor...powerfully tearful. 

[pocorina]

The music to Schindlers List

[brokenagraffe]

hey guys.. thanks for posting all these songs up!!!  Keep them coming!!!!

(hmm.... what Op. # is the Chopin nocturne in C# minor??)

No one likes Debussy's Valse Romantique?

haha...  Any sad pieces by Tschaikovsky? Mendelssohn? or Satie?

thanks...

Tchaikovsky: Romance Op.5 and Does the Day Reign? Op.47 No.6 (this one's a song)

there's supposed to be a solo piano transcription for the song that's pretty awesome which i've only heard someone play once but i can't find the music anywhere.

[JLefrere]

I was surprised nobody mentioned Satie's Gymnopedies until about the 30th post!
These get my vote...closely followed by Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9.
Good topic