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?
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