Classical music fans I need a hand (1 Viewer)

[whathappen?]

Hi ,
I know nothing about classical music so I need some help. I need some recommendations of very dark cello pieces or a classical cd of cello music. It can be from any country , old or modern it just has to be dark. It's for a play about suicide but wont be used in the score just for rehearsal.
Thanks

 

[ann post]

just to get the ball rolling, off the top of my head theres this, which gets super mournful around 1.13

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oh and philip glass's kundun ost

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thats a sample theres some really morose dramatic business on that theme on that album

 

[ann post]

the specific tune i was thinking of is called 'chinese invade' from the kundun ost. that'd wipe a smile off anyones face. its on spotify, or you could probably track down the rekkid somewhere else online.

 

[Grahamseely]

The main one that springs to mind would be the Bach Cello suites 1-6, used to grim effect by ingmar bergman in through a glass darkly, which is about suicide and playwrights! Also Shotstakovich Cello suites 1 and 2 , and shostakovich string quartet no.8 is the bleakest peice of music ever written, and very cello heavy . another is Elgar's Cello Concerto, as played by Jacquline Du Pre or Yo Yo Ma.

 

[ratmonkey]

There's two longish tracks (10 mins plus) on Urfaust's Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist that'd probably do the job.

 

[jimmybreeze]

http://www.hildurness.com/

 

[the departed]

something by Godspeed you black emporer or silver mount Zion might suit.

 

[Grahamseely]

"Shotstakovich Cello suites 1 and 2"

sorry, should read Shostakovich Cello Concertos 1 & 2

 

[Vinnie]

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[the departed]

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[CitySickness]

Zoe Keating:
http://www.myspace.com/zoecello

 

[whathappen?]

yay thanks guys , depressed of me head now...emo for posh people

 

[ratmonkey]

emo for posh people

That would be opera, methinks.