Your Top 10 Favorite Scariest Or Creepiest Works

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Mirror Image

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on September 09, 2021, 01:19:27 PM
I really need the works are truly special to get the feeling of "fear" or "scary", so I have to think well about my choices.

Still waiting on a list from you, Cesar. ;)

Symphonic Addict

Quote from: Mirror Image on October 01, 2021, 07:52:38 AM
Still waiting on a list from you, Cesar. ;)

These works have got that. For now, these five:

Carter: String Quartet No. 5
Lutoslawski: Musique funèbre
Pettersson: Sonatas for two violins
Feldman: Three Voices
Xenakis: La Lègende d'Eer
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Sergeant Rock

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 13 "Babi Yar" and 14
Mahler Das klagende Lied and last movement of Symphony No. 6 and first movement of Symphony No. 9
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Mirror Image

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 05, 2021, 09:22:06 AM
Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 13 "Babi Yar" and 14
Mahler Das klagende Lied and last movement of Symphony No. 6 and first movement of Symphony No. 9

Nice choices with the Shostakovich, Sarge. The Mahler doesn't strike me as creepy, but per usual we just hear different things.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Mirror Image on October 05, 2021, 10:22:53 AM
Nice choices with the Shostakovich, Sarge. The Mahler doesn't strike me as creepy, but per usual we just hear different things.

I don't find the Mahler creepy either...but personally scary (the arrhythmic heartbeat motive in the M9, for example).

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Mirror Image

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 05, 2021, 01:26:55 PM
I don't find the Mahler creepy either...but personally scary (the arrhythmic heartbeat motive in the M9, for example).

Sarge

Ah, yes. Goodness, I love Mahler's 9th!

Artem

Patterns in a Chromatic Field by Morton Feldman. He has a few other creepy, anxiety inducing pieces.

Maestro267

A lot of that anxiety comes purely when you see the length of those pieces.