What are some great scary Halloween-themed classical pieces of music?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

Please share.
The only thing creepy that I have on the list is St. Saens "Aquarium".

[Ron Green]

1. The Chopin Funeral March, Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"

[WMliberal]

2. you need in the Hall of the Mountain King

and Night on Bald Mountain to make a good start. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is menacing. Maybe some Sweeny Todd (an opera about a serial killer/barber).

[ZenLefty]

3. This is going to sound corny...

I usually sleep with the radio on in the living room, very quiet but just enough to hear its feint music while I fall asleep. One night it was on the classical station. I woke up in the middle of the night, and they were playing the theme music from The Shining.

The movie didn't scare me much, and neither the book, but that music at that hour creeped me out more than anything I had ever heard!! It was a long and frightful walk to the living room to turn it off, where I was jumping at every shadow. When it was off, I had to turn it back on and change the station, because the silence creeped me out too!!

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[Khephra]

4. "Night on Bald Mountain"

[blackcat77]

5. Transfigured Night by Schoenberg

Great stuff!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Mozart's Requiem "Dies Irae"----Bach Toccata in D minor for organ

[blackcat77]

7. And the Rite of Spring nt

[Khephra]

8. Anything from the Dr.Phibes movies

:evilgrin:

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

9. Isle of the Dead, by Rachmaninov

Inspired by a painting of the same name by Böcklin.

They played it at CSO's "Hallowed Haunts" concert a couple of years ago. You can listen to it and imagine that you're sitting in a boat headed for the isle of the dead. Very creepy.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

10. Also, Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens

[drdtroit]

11. Bach "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"

famous Dracula/Phantom theme. :evilgrin:

[drdtroit]

12. Wagner "Ride of the Valkyries"

Robert Duvall's cavalry helicopter attack sequence music in "Apocolypse Now", :evilgrin: