Let’s create a playlist of dark and moody classical pieces for Halloween! Our member-co-authored Classical Community list has been such a big hit among Roon listeners that I thought it would be fun to create another one that’s loaded with eerie classical works that evoke the spectral and supernatural.
We can lean on pieces that have actually been used in horror cinema or those that simply elicit a chilling or spine-tingling aura.
Some examples of the ghoulish grooves I’m thinking are:
Please post your phantasmagoric favorites here by Friday the 13th, and I’ll take care of the rest! And as always, thank you so much, in advance, for your contributions. I’m dying to hear this one!
Black Host by William Bolcom for Organ, percussion and taped music. Scared the ■■■■ out of me the first time I heard it (on an old LP - long since gone)
Of course - I completely forgot about that album. The Fall of the House of Usher tracks are terrific in all senses of the word. Even has Orson Welles narrating…
