Goth, Classical style: a playlist...

One of our hobbies is creating eclectic playlists of classical music inspired by our travels, reading lists or interests. Thus we have a "myths & titans" playlist reflecting our interest in the classics & antiquity, and a "L'invitation au voyage" playlist of music connected to the sea, and especially the incomparable Mediterranean. So we attach the following bibliography (or playlist) of Flying Dutchman inspired “dark & stormy” music: Goth, Classical Style…

This is a highly subjective and randomly ordered list reflecting the author's taste for what his wife refers to as "crazy music..."

1. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – especially the wicked Witches’ Sabbath
2. Marshner: Der Vampyr – see separate musing on Wagner & Vampirism…
3. Weber: Der Freischütz – another Faustian deal w/ the devil (see musing on W. & W.)
4. Verdi: Macbeth – Verdi said the Witches’ chorus was the third leading role…
5. Mahler: Das Klagende Lied – early oratory is a Grimm-inspired ghost tale
6. Strauss: Salomé – an erotic bacchanalia-cum-strip-tease, w/ John the B’s head…
7. Shostakovich: Lady Mcbeth of Mtsensk – a grim & gritty updating of murder…
8. Henze: Royal Winter Music – eerie solo guitar fantasia on mad Lady M.
9. Britten: Turn of the Screw – a Henry James – inspired Victorian ghost story…
10. Henze: Tristan – the haunting Halloweenesque epilogue to his 2nd Piano Cto…
11. Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird – is it an ominous Crow, Raven or Witch?
12. Henze: 7th Symphony – the frenetic “dance with the devil” opening movement…
13. Turnage: Three Screaming Popes – inspired by Bacon’s violent & horrific vision
14. Macmillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie – elegy for a real Witch-hunt victim
15. Henze: Barcarola – the Ferryman (aka: Grim Reaper) rows the dead across Styx
16. Gubaidulina: 4th Quartet – a dark & primeval northern Slavic string quartet…
17. Holst: The Planets – the furthest “ghost” trio from us, Saturn, Neptune & Uranus
18. Pintscher: Towards Osiris – a satellite tribute to Holst & the dismembered god…
19. Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead – an expressionist Böcklin-inspired lament
20. Nørgard: 4th Symphony – especially the uncanny Chinese Witch’s Dance…
21. Henze: The Bassarids (suite) – a modern bacchanalia & orgiastic Greek dance
22. Britten: Owen Wingrave – another James-inspired ghost story of dead children…
23. Birtwistle: Gawain’s Journey – the medieval gothic alive in Harry’s mythology…
24. Henze: Aristaeus – a melodrama for Orpheus & Eurydice & the Underworld
25. Bennett: The Bermudas – a haunting otherworldly set of Elizabethan choral songs
26. Janacek: Makropulos Case – a gothic tale of a 300-year-old Diva…
27. Birtwistle: Theseus Game – an elemental tone poem of a beastly Greek battle…

[Böcklin's 1883 eerie landscape: "The Isle of the Dead"]