Thread: Best depressing/melancholic pieces

Ive been on the hunt for some music with a bit of darkness/melancholy and I need some reccommendations. I particularly like Mahler's String Quartet in A Minor. Does anyone know of something similar, perhaps from the same time period or later?

Gigli

If you like piano solo's my own compositions are dark/melancholic for the most part.

Lost (classical)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlxQocunMjc

Dreamspace (Classic/jazz fusion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8bLRd5WcHc

Hard Ways (Classical)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgSdHZTd6EY

Fog (Classical)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-dcG3UhWXc

Originally Posted by GigliSaw

I particularly like Mahler's String Quartet in A Minor.

Anyway,
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde (in particular movement six)

Peter Warlock - The curlew

My favorite's Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1.

Boy if I had a dollar for every time I've seen a question like this....