most upsetting music...

[answers2424]

i want to know what the most upsetting piece of music you know is? and i dont mean songs like 'your heart will go on'! i mean like opera and related genres like that.

thanks

[ELVIS68]

Beethovens Moonlight Sonata

[morials]

An Ending - by Brian Eno - when played with the NSPCC advert

[Suzannew]

The Lord's my Shepherd at my late dad's funeral. Not easy to sing when the tears are flowing :(

[Leo1972]

"Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" by Gavin Bryars

[crosso]

Albinoni's Adagio when used as a theme to the film 'Gallipoli'...

[B00]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings- featured in Platoon.

[supakev]

Try

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony of sorrowful songs
Richard Strauss - Im Abendrot
Richard D James - Selected ambient works Vol 2 track 24
Angelo Badalmenti - Laura Palmer's Theme

[fiona_m]

Due Tramonti and Fuori dalla Notte by Ludovico Einaudi

[Merlin77]

Have a go at Shubert's The Trout. Not quintessentially sad but the change of pace to mirror the catching a fish is pretty powerful. The music slows perfectly when it gives the impression that the fish loses his fight. I find something rather sad about that.

[romko]

alone again naturally by gilbert o'sullivan is pretty suicidal.