Need sad classical music...

[Zebo]

Brahms made the most emotional and sometimes sadest music ever written IMO. I cry everytime I listen his piano quartet in c minor Op. 60, or Variations Op. 23, or Symphony No. 4 OMG so many...

 

[bleeb]

For some sad music:

Beethoven - Symphony 7 (2nd movement, "Allegretto")

You feel the pain...

or to Barber's Adagio (From the movie Platoon Sndtrck, Track 11)

 

[shifrbv]

Tchaikovskey's Symphony No. 6 - Pathetique

It's basically 4 movements of the seasons of life (from birth to death). The last couple are quite reflective and sad.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
Lots of stuff by rachmaninoff.

More specifically
Isle of the Dead

 

[CStan]

The walking away song from the incredible hulk

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Elgar

 

[johnjohn320]

The 2nd movement of Nancy Galbraith's Piano Concerto (she's only written one so far) would be perfect, but a recording of it is hard to find.

2nd Movement of Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto

2nd Movement of Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto

Lots of Brahms piano works (perhaps some intermezzi?)

Chopin Nocturnes, specifically B-flat Minor and E Minor

Schubert Impromptu in G Flat (op. 90 no. 3)

Some orchestral stuff/wind stuff:

David Gillingham-Be Though My Vision (written in memory of the composer's parents)
Frank Ticheli-An American Elegy (commisioned by Columbine High School)
Prokofiev-All sorts of stuff. Check out the Romeo and Juliet Ballet, for one.

Some of the Mozart operas are quite depressing as well.
J.S. Bach- some of the movements from the Mass in B Minor and St. Matthew Passion can get the water works going.