Your Top 10 Favorite Scariest Or Creepiest Works

[Mirror Image]

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]

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

[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

[Mirror Image]

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]

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

[Mirror Image]

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.