The 50 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music

Carmina Burana - O Fortuna

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

David Parry

The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War

Gustav Holst - The Planets, op. 32

Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Suite Gothique Toccata

Léon Boëllmann - Suite Gothique, op. 25

Hans Fagius

Egmont Overture

Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont, op. 84: Ouvertüre. Sostenuto, ma non troppo – Allegro

David Parry

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Minor, Funeral March

Frédéric Chopin - Sonata for Piano no. 2 in B‐flat minor, op. 35 “Funeral March”

Mitsuko Uchida

Messa da Requiem - Dies Iria - Tuba Minum

Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da requiem: IIb. Dies irae: Tuba mirum (basso, coro)

David Parry

Organ concerto No. 10 in D Minor - Adagio

George Frideric Handel - Organ Concerto in D minor, op. 7 no. 4, HWV 309

Cappella Istropolitana, Harald Feller

Masonic Funeral Music in C Minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Maurerische Trauermusik für Orchester c-Moll, K. 479a/477

Ernest Bour, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Stabat Mater dolorosa

Antonio Vivaldi - Stabat Mater, RV 621

Jakub Burzyński

Ride of the Valkyries

Richard Wagner - Excerpt from Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Akt III, Scene I, Walkürenritt

David Parry

Fortunae plango vulnera

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Ilya Stupel

The March to the Scaffold

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

Anton Nanut, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra

L'adoration de la Terre (Adoration of the Earth)

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du printemps

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Minnesota Orchestra

Lacrimosa dies illa

Franz Xaver Süssmayr - Requiem in D minor, K. 626

David Parry

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

David Parry

Oboe Concerto in D Minor Adagio

Alessandro Marcello - Concerto per oboe, archi e continuo in re minore, S D935

Howard Griffiths

Symphony No. 10 in E Minor Allegro

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 10 in E minor, op. 93

Mark Wigglesworth, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Swan Lake Suite Scene (Lake in the Moonlight)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Swan Lake (suite from the ballet), op. 20a

David Parry

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata und Fuge d-Moll, BWV 565

Klemens Schnorr

Fratres

Arvo Pärt - Fratres

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Tragic Allegro

Franz Schubert - Symphony no. 4 in C minor, D. 417 "Tragic"

Hans Swarowsky

The Planets Neptune, the Mystic

Gustav Holst - The Planets, op. 32

Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra