Originally posted by fiftyyearstoolate

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 Zarathustra (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 :)