Does anyone else listen to Mahler when they're depressed?

[samu]

I like to listen to Mahler when i'm depressed, because his music makes me feel depressed and idk there's just a quality in his Music that I find depressing and it helps me. Wbu?

 

[darksouls2kicksass]

What symphonies are your favorite?? My suicide playlist has both the 4th mov of the Second and the 3rd mov of the Sixth. Cooke's completion of the Tenth is also really great; I think it's really his magnum opus, even if it was completed posthumously

 

[samu]

What symphonies are your favorite?? My suicide playlist has both the 4th mov of the Second and the 3rd mov of the Sixth. Cooke's completion of the Tenth is also really great; I think it's really his magnum opus, even if it was completed posthumously

Love the sixth too, but my favorite might actually be the ninth. It's just completely sad at the end to me. The tenth is probably my least favorite, although I haven't really actively listened to it much, so I'll have to check it out again
5th is also great. Also I just played the 4th which I also really like especially the 3. Movement.
5th is also great. Also I just played the 4th which I also really like especially the 3. Movement.

 

[SVEN]

If I wasn't depressed when I started to listen I surely would be by the end.

 

[Redacted24]

I also include Shostakovich's 7th symphony into this pack, personally. It's dark... and for good reason

 

[Ashu]

I discovered Mahler when I was eighteen, the first, and then the ninth. He was my soul, and over the years I kind of listened him to death. At this point, at fifty-four, it's been some years since I've listened to the pieces that mean most to me, the fifth, sixth, ninth, the Cooke tenth - this because I know them so well, and because it's quite exhausting to engage with them. I listen to the two sets of Rueckert songs, which are easier to bear because shorter, and to the seventh, the least emotionally intense of his symphonies, and the eighth, with its unspeakable cosmic joy.

 

[Ashu]

I also include Shostakovich's 7th symphony into this pack, personally. It's dark... and for good reason

That's the "Leningrad", no? I was fascinated by it as a teenager, but by now I'm deeply averse to political art. I love his fifth and tenth, coincidentally I've been wanting to hear the fifth again in recent days, a struggle out of darkness into the light, like the fifth of Mahler, whom Shostakovich worshipped.

 

[Redacted24]

Yes... the 7th is the Leningrad, where Shostakovich endured the siege and composed it.
Mahler is the connection to so many musical lines. It's amazing he doesn't get more play.
I'm a huge fan of Mahler's fifth.
Cheers!

 

[Ashu]

I also include Shostakovich's 7th symphony into this pack, personally. It's dark... and for good reason

That's the "Leningrad", no? I was fascinated by it as a teenager, but by now I'm deeply averse to political art. I love his fifth and tenth, coincidentally I've been wanting to hear the fifth again in recent days, a struggle out of darkness into the light, like the fifth of Mahler, whom Shostakovich worshipped.

Yes... the 7th is the Leningrad, where Shostakovich endured the siege and composed it.
Mahler is the connection to so many musical lines. It's amazing he doesn't get more play.
I'm a huge fan of Mahler's fifth.
Cheers!

If I were forced to declare a single favorite piece of all music, it would very probably be Mahler's fifth, such a novel of spiritual triumph. I never forget that it's the score that Bernstein was buried with, placed on his chest along with his baton. It's such a powerfully affirmative score, but it is so because people like us recognize the pesonality type of its composer, a man who knew despair, and no doubt knew the temptation of suicide - as a young man he was traumatized by the suicide of his elder brother. I love Richard Strauss too, Mahler's contemporary and friend, who is musically similar to him in many ways, but his moments of huge orchestral exhilaration lack the depth of meaning of Mahler's, because he was not driven to them by the same terror of the void.