Classical Moods: Melancholy

Pavane pour une infante défunte, for piano (or orchestra)

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte

André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51), motet for chorus

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus

Stephen Cleobury

Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, march and canzona for orchestra, Z. 860

Henry Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860

Philip Ledger, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

When I am laid in earth (from "Dido and Aeneas"), soprano aria (Dido's Lament), Z. 626/38b

Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 37. Ground, Aria and Ritornello “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)

John Barbirolli, Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra

Passacaglia. The Death Of Falstaff

William Walton - Two Pieces for Strings from “Henry V”: Passacaglia: Death of Falstaff

Charles Groves, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: Adagio [Excerpt]

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

André Previn, Ángel Romero, London Symphony Orchestra

Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46: Ases Tod

Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, op. 46

John Barbirolli, The Hallé

Adagietto, for orchestra (from the Symphony No. 5) [Excerpt]

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5

John Barbirolli, Philharmonia Orchestra

Piano Concerto in G major: Adagio Assai

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major

Lorin Maazel, Orchestre National de France

Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: Var. 9: Nimrod (August Johannes Jaeger)

Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’), op. 36

John Barbirolli, Philharmonia Orchestra

Adagio for strings (or string quartet; arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet), Op. 11

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra