h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

But I've always thought the waltz from Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite to be one of the saddest pieces of music I know of. It's in a minor key... could it be D minor, the saddest of all keys? No, looks like it's in E Minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp3Qh-GRqs Close but no cigar.

It's also one of the earliest pieces of classical music I can remember; that and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Both from before I was four years old certainly, because I remember hearing them at the house we lived at and moved out of before I had my fourth birthday.

Not just sad, but desperate... so much agony and stress, being torn between hard choices.
And now (around 2:20) there's hope, light. Then the hope fades, and the anxiety increases again. And there is no choice any longer.

Thanks for the link.

Desperate, yes. That's a better description. Like someone who's looking for something important and can't find it.