bc sometimes you just want a little mood music for re-reading the handbook and plotting galactic domination (or for writing a darkfic or battle-scene).
- Dvořák: Symphony №9, “From The New World” – IV – Allegro Con Fuoco
- Holst: The Planets, Mars
- JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (mandatory listening for all vampires)
- Grieg: Peer Gynt, Hall of the Mountain King
- Saint-Saëns: La danse macabre
- Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
- Verdi: Requiem, Dies Irae
- Schnittke: Seid nuchtern und wachet (Faust Cantata); VII. Es geschah (It came to pass) IT’S AN EVIL TANGO. ABOUT FAUST. BEING DRAGGED. INTO THE UNDERWORLD. Come on.
- Orff: Carmina Burana, O Fortuna
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5, 1st movement
- Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Witch’s Ride (Hexenritt)
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Dance of the Knights (Montagues and Capulets)
- Grieg: Piano Concerto
- Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “The Titan”
- Mozart: Requiem, Dies Irae
- Mozart: Requiem, Confutatis
- Mozart: Don Giovanni, Finale
- Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Dance Of The Pagan Monster
- Bruckner: Symphony no. 9, Movt. 2. Scherzo.
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 4th Movement (let’s be real here, you’re a villain, Shosta is probably your favourite composer.)
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, March To The Scaffold
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath
- Liszt: Totentanz
- Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (II)
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Gnomus
- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Summer (Presto)
- Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, third movement
- Stravinksy: The Rite Of Spring, The Adoration of the Earth
- Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op.3 No.2 in C-sharp minor
- Mahler: Symphony 5, 2nd Movement
- Mahler: Symphony 9, 3rd Movement
- Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (for all you Jokers and clown-themed villains out there)
- Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
- Beethoven: “Moonlight” Sonata, Movement 3
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no.2 op.18
- Chopin: Funeral March
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt’s Death
- Prokofiev: Sarcasms
- Prokofiev: “Suggestion Diabolique”
- Mozart: The Magic Flute, Der
Hölle Rache
- Wagner: Die Walkure, Ride of the Valkyries (for releasing the flying monkeys…)
- Wagner: Siegfried, Fafner’s Death (BECAUSE DRAGONS)
- Wagner:
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried’s Funeral Music
- Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture
- Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Swan Theme) (to be played underneath your tragic backstory… right before you stab whoever’s telling it)
- Marschner: Der Vampyr, Overture
- Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (sad, creepy Gollumesque villains, this one’s for you)
- Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead
- Ligeti: Requiem
- Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
- Elgar: Dream of Gerontius, Demons’ Chorus
- Liefs: Organ Concerto, Introduction
- Strauss: Also sprach Zarathrusta (to be used during the dramatic reveal of your planet-sized superweapon…)
- Mahler: Um Mitternacht
- Schubert: Erlkönig
- Bernstein: Kaddish, Din Torah
- Edgard Varèse: Amériques, final movement
- Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
I have also made a Youtube playlist of all these pieces! Please enjoy
as you work on your villainous laugh 🙂Great list. Just can’t figure out what Spring is doing in there…
Rite of Spring is alternatively creepy, atmospheric and aaaaaangry. It famously caused a near-riot at its premiere. (I mean, Disney made it the soundtrack for a DINOSAUR BATTLE in Fantasia) Try it from this point! The whole ballet is EPIC… I compromised by only putting the first Act in 🙂
Aw Yiss 