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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