Spooky Wednesday | Classical Music for your Horror Soundtrack

Spooky Wednesday | Classical Music for your Horror Soundtrack

Autumn is here, the nights are longer… and something spooky this way comes. As the second part of Wednesday Season 2 returns to our screens, we’ve put together the perfect playlist for all dark souls, gothic hearts, and lovers of eerie elegance.
Dark strings and thunderous drums paint stories of secret graveyards and candle-lit dances: Prokofiev’s “Montagues and Capulets” stalks like a quiet ghost, Saint-Saëns’ “Danse macabre” turns bones into violins, Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bare Mountain” roars above swirling clouds, while Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” drives a frantic chase through twisting corridors.
Light a candle, sip something warm, and let the music pull you into secret rooms and hidden crypts. Whether you're sketching in black ink, walking through foggy woods, or planning a mysterious soirée, this playlist is your haunting soundtrack.
Listen... if you dare.

Tracklist:

0:00:00 Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter: No. 1, Montagues and Capulets
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra & Arnold Katz

0:03:40 Vivaldi - The Four Seasons No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297, Op. 8, "Winter": I. Allegro non molto
Enrico Casazza & La Magnifica Comunità

0:06:56 Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre in G Minor, Op. 40
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Davies & Michael Davis

0:14:15 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Bjarte Engeset

0:16:48 Shostakovich - Hamlet Suite, Op. 116: III. The Ghost
Theodore Kuchar & National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

0:18:07 Verdi – Requiem: II. Dies irae
Choir and Orchestra of the Sofia Opera & Ivan Marinov

0:20:07 Mussorgsky - Night on Bare Mountain
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Igor Markevitch

0:30:31 Satie - Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent
Håkon Austbö

0:34:36 Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo
Michelangelo Carbonara

0:44:37 Smetana - Doktor Faust, JB 1:85
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra & Theodore Kuchar

0:48:53 Poulenc - Le bal masque, FP 60
Matteo Fossi & Duccio Ceccanti

0:51:24 Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Klára Würtz

1:02:39 Liszt - Totentanz, S. 126
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach & Michael Ponti

1:17:51 Wagner - The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Pt. 3: The Ride of the Valkyries
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Philip Ellis

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition:
1:22:58 No. 1, Gnomus
1:25:33 No. 4, Bydlo
1:28:32 No. 9, The Hut on Fowl's Legs
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Igor Markevitch

1:32:18 Dvořák - The Noon Witch, Op. 108
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra & Theodore Kuchar

1:45:54 Satie – Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent
Håkon Austbö

1:49:20 Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le Gibet
Michelangelo Carbonara

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, K015 Pt. I:
1:56:39 III. Ritual of Abduction
1:58:03 VI. Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One
1:58:49 VII. Dance of the Earth
Gianna Fratta & Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

2:00:31 Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du Temps: I. Liturgie de Cristal
Davide Bandieri, Joël Marosi, Marja-Liisa Marosi & Lisa Schatzman

2:03:17 Sibelius - Luonnotar, Op. 70
State Academic Symphonic Orchestra Moscow & Vasily Sinajsky

2:11:34 Dvořák - Water Goblin, Op. 107
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra & Theodore Kuchar
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