Sing Sad Songs for Me
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Mon Jan 13 12:37:08 CST 1997
Don Larsson sez
>Perfect Music for Melancholics: the opening movements of any of Bach's
>Cello Concertos; for something soppier, try Tchiakovsky's 6th Symphony
>(it *is* called "The Pathetique").
Yeah. And then speaking of Bach cello music there's the 5th Suite for
Cello Unaccompanied. Actually I don't call it sad, it's more like
grumpy, setting you up for the 6th. Those suites deserve to be listened
to serially, as they present a marvelous emotional progression.
Cheers,
David
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