Could someone suggest some creepy classical music?
I’m hosting a dinner party on Halloween and am looking for some music to play. I want this to be a classy event, so I want to try to stay away from cliche Halloween music and play some classical instead. I’m looking for some creepy classical music for the occasion. I know Danse Macabre from Saint-Saens, but that’s about it. Any suggestions?
Also, it doesn’t have to be solely classical, just not the typical Monster Mash, Bad Moon Rising, Ghost Busters stuff.
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Danse Macabre by Saint Saens, oops, I see you wrote that! Have you heard the Hellraiser theme? From the first and second movies, check them out.
Someone has to be the first to suggest this.
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Try Still Doll by Kanon Wakeshima. It has words but it’s pretty creepy and awesome!
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Look for Kalimando from Mystere Cirque du Soleil
@Jeruba ^_^
I’m going to recommend, in addition to what has already been recommended:
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, First Movement by Dmitri Shostakovich (most people have probably never heard of this, but I swear, it’s creepy and the last minute of this movement is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever heard in classical music. It sounds like the background music for a horror movie).
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Second Movement by Dmitri Shostakovich (again, probably never heard of this one, but this is a creepy little movement in the middle of a dark symphony).
Prelude No. 2 in C# minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Libera Me from the Requiem by Gabriel Faure
Libera Me from the Requiem by Maurice Durufle
Domine Jesu Christe from the Requiem by Maurice Durufle
For I Am Under the Same Accusation from “Rejoice in the Lamb” by Benjamin Britten (This piece is so scary that it scared my brother when I listened to it many years ago).
Practically every Shostakovich symphony has a “scary” part. His symphonies are very dark (and usually about Stalin and war).
Path by apocalyptica would be a good one. They have a lot of good stuff that you could try!
Pretty much anything where an organ or cello is involved, such as this or this. If there is a piece that has a faster speed to it, it can make the heart and mind race.
You can always make it easy and just go with just about any movie soundtrack done by Danny Elfman.
Chopin’s Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9., No. 2.
There’s a piece by Wendy Carlos on the Switched On Bach album (old one – she was Walter when she did it), I think, that has whooshing sounds and is really cool. What a genius! Don’t have the album any more, but I think it was one of the Brandenburg concertos. My mom and I have planned to use it for her funeral (at night, and the music starts, the lights mostly go out, and the coffin lid sslloowwwly starts to rise…).
Are you familiar with the work of Alfred Schnittke? Search for it, he is the BEST among the creep classical composers, pretty much EVERYthing he did was creepy
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