things of sad beauty

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Richard and Todd both recommended
Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Sir Ralph Vaughn Williams

That was my father's favorite piece of Vaughn Williams (in addition to his
beautiful and masterful 3rd Symphony).............so I love it very much 
as well.

Also,  Todd recommended the Gorecki 3rd (what is it about 3rd 
symphonies,  I think
Coplands and Vaughn Williams best symphonies were their 3rds).

so, again,  in the melancholic or sad mode,

It is very simple but I also love ADAGIO FOR STRINGS by Samuel Barber
and REQUIEM by Garbiel Faure

I love a lot of the piano works of Debussy and Satie.

I love that one famous aria from LAKME by Delibes.

They are more complex, harmonically, (so , to my mind it adds both
bittersweet and menace emotionally)   but I love the
Cello Suites by Bartok
his amazing Concerto for Orchestra,   with the quietest pianissimo in 
the entire classical repertoire at
it's beginning.......................maybe one of the few times where 
the dynamic range of CDs excelled
over the warmth of Vinyl and Tape..............hard to get the entire 
dynamics of that piece onto vinyl properly
(if you've ever heard it performed live).

what else?

Le Tombeau de Couperin   by Maurice Ravel (still one of my favorite 
composers..........I'm still
marvelling at his use of suspended chords that do NOT resolve.)