The Evil Overlord’s Classical Mixtape – Side B

so you’ve finished Side A of the Mixtape, you’ve ticked off everything in the handbook, but you need some more mood music for conquering the universe (or for writing a darkfic or battle-scene). 

• Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto 3
• Dvořák: Requiem
• Sibelius: Finlandia (VISIT BEAUTIFUL FINLAND, BRING ABOUT THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILISATION)
• Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite
• Jakub Neske: Mironczarnia

• JS Bach: Organ Concerto in A minor (Vampires, get your Bat on)

• Paul Stanhope: Lux Aeterna 
• Faure: Requiem
• Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor, “the Mad Scene” 
• Britten: War Requiem, Dies Irae (fuck it, listen to the whole Requiem. It’s agonizing.)
• Dvořák: Symphony no7, 4th Movement
• Arne Mellnäs: Aglepta  (vengeful ghosts, this one’s for you.)
• Schubert: 

  Der Tod und das Mädchen 

• Copland: I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
• Massenet: The Tempest Suite, Ariel and the Spirits (angry Mutants, your theme tune, if you please)
• Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, This Little Babe (Benny Britten is cranky about Christmas, and likes making the second sopranos cry)
• Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
• Mozart: Marriage of Figaro, “La Vendetta” (A PISSED OFF BASS LAWYER PATTER ARIA)
• Verdi: Rigoletto, “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata!”
• Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Carabosse (strut time for wicked fairies and queens)
• Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in G Minor
• Orbán: 

  Daemon irrepit callidus  (for the Sorcerer who wants it all)

• Gyöngyösi: Domine Deus Meus
• J.S. Bach:  St John Passion, “Herr, unser Herrscher”
• Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Battle with the Mouse King
• Widor: Mattheus-Final from ‘Bach’s Memento’
• Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto (the fact that you can sing ‘stand by your man’ to the adagio theme makes you 100% more furious)
• Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini
• Verdi: Otello, Iago’s ‘Credo’ Aria (tips from one of the pros, for all you schemers and plotters out there)
• Bizet: Carmen, “Cards scene”
• Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor 
• Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
• Liszt: Transcendental Etude No4 ‘Mazeppa’
• Gounod: Faust, “Le veau d’or”, the Mephistopheles serenade. (Palpatine’s easy listening pick)
• Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme by Chopin
• Shostakovich: Symphony no.13 (SUITABLE NUMBER IS SUITABLE)
• Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No1

• Janáček

  – Glagothic Mass 

• Puccini: Tosca, “Te Deum” (Villain Goals)
• Sibelius: Tapiola
• Bartók: Allegro Barbaro
• Vivaldi: La Griselda, Agitata Da Due Venti (if you don’t think it’s angry enough, just imagine how the soprano feels) 
• Beethoven: Fidelio, “Abscheulicher!” (the Revenge Aria)
• Beethoven: Symphony No6, “Pastoral” – 4th Movement, “The Thunderstorm”
• Beethoven: Rage Over a Lost Penny (#relatable)
• Brahms: Tragic Overture
• Tartini: Devil’s Trill Sonata

• Chopin: Etude 12 in C minor, the ‘Revolutionary’ (whoever told you that Chopin was chill?)

• Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• Purcell: King Arthur, “What Power Art Thou” (The Cold Genius Aria)
• Ross Edwards, Symphony No1 “Da Pacem Domine” (TISSUE WARNING: use this as you suddenly and inevitably betray everything you once held dear)
• Borodin: Polovtsian Dance #3, Allegro and Chorus
• Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

All of these have been added to the Youtube Playlist!