Classical Music For A Dark Night
 

These are some of my favorite classical pieces with a dark theme to them:
Requiem: Dies Irae - Verdi
Firebird: Danse Infernale - Stravinsky
Pictures At An Exhibition: The Gnome, and Hut On Fowls' Legs - Mussorgsky
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna, and Veris leta facies - Orff
Ritual Fire Dance - Manuel De Falla
Dresden In Ruins - Shostakovich
Romeo And Juliet: Dance Of The Knights - Prokofiev
The Rite Of Spring - Stravinsky
Toccata And Fugue - Bach
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Mephisto Waltz - Liszt
Night On Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
Peer Gynt: In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Grieg
Caprice 24 - Paganini
Music For Strings, Percussion, And Celesta - Bartok
Lontano - Gyorgy Ligeti
Any of the 7 pieces by Krysztof Penderecki used in The Shining

Any more dark classical music out there?

Guonod's Funeral March of a Marionette.

Worth checking out Chopin's Nocturnes & his waltz's too. Lots of dark/ tragic piano. Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead is pretty dark too.

Thank you for recommending Rachmaninov; I hadn't heard that one before. Should have mentioned Funeral March Of A Marionette. Some other pieces I forgot to mention:
Death And The Maiden - Schubert
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss
Peter And The Wolf: The Wolf - Prokofiev
Funeral March - Chopin
The Flying Dutchman - Wagner
Mars, The Bringer Of War - Holst
Symphonie Fantastique, Dream Of A Witches' Sabbath - Berlioz

Does anyone happen to know the classical piece playing in the background of this trailer? I'd love to add it to my collection.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTnljnpDBpo

Halloween - Charles Ives
March to the Scaffold (Symphonie Fantastique) - Hector Berlioz

March To The Scaffold is a great piece. I'd never heard Charles Ives' Halloween before. Intense; I love it!

Pachabell's Cannon
and the obvious- Night on the Bare Mountain:)

I know its not classical, but have fond memories of a night listening to Dark Side of the Moon with the lights off and curtains open- moonlight only ;)

Night On Bald Mountain made my list too. I thought about including Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas, but all I can think about when I hear it is Mickey Mouse and the brooms and it makes me laugh.

Haha- yep, you gotta love Mickey!
Glad Carmina Burana is on here (on a different thread!)
Also love 'The Montagues and Capuletes' from Romeo and Juliette
And Elgar's Cello Concerto makes me ponderous- especially when you considder it was written as a requiem for those who were killed in the trenches of WWI.

Oh and excuse the awful spelling- am multi-tasking here:)