Haunting Classical Music

some things that come to mind:

basically any & all Hildegard von Bingen

'Spem in Alium' by Tallis

Gregorio Allegri's 'Miserere'

Schnittke's "Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled With Grief" and his Piano Quintet & concerto grosso no. 3

Alla Pavlova, Symph No. 3

Sylvie Bodorová's 'Terezín Ghetto Requiem' for baritone & string quartet, Concerto dei fiori for violin & strings, & 'Hélios'

The Adagio of Schubert's Piano Trio, also his String Quintet

Leoš Janáček's solo piano works, particularly the last movement of 'In the mists' (1912) performed by Håkon Austbø. Also, same composer's 2nd String Quartet, 'Intimate Letters', is haunting and magical.

Darknesse visible for solo piano by Thomas Adès

A lot of Shostakovich, e.g., the 5th symph & the Piano Quintet in g-minor, Op 57 (1945) (iv) Intermezzo: Lento

Lili Boulanger, 'Pie Jesu' & 'Nocturne in F'

the Kyrie of 'Misa Criolla' by Ariel Ramirez

'Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé' by Ravel

'Rothko Chapel' & 'Coptic Light' by Morton Feldman

'Le baiser de l'enfant jésus' from Messiaen's Vingt Regards...

Some of Fanny Mendelssohn's songs, like 'Wenn Ich In Deine Augen Sehe'

Also a lot of vocal/choral music:

'Concerto to the memory of A.A. Yurlov' by Georgy Sviridov

Monteverdi's Madrigals

Symphony No.18 Op.138 by Mieczysław Weinberg

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa's 'Madrigali a Cinque Voci'

Not sure how this thread made it to the second post without a mention of Henyrk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", or for that matter Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". I know, no points for originality, but these are by now classics for introducing popular music listeners to composed/concert music.

Oh hell, I'll go all out pop and mention that Zbigniew Preisner's "Van den Budenmayer Concerto", written for Kieslowski's La double vie de Véronique (1991) is pretty amazing...

That's because Górecki's symphony is hackneyed, dull, overrated and cheesy.

I love your other choices though. xp

Allegri seconded, and since Preisner's been mentioned, this thread ought to include his Requiem For My Friend.

Schönberg's Verklarte Nacht, the chamber version, preferably any recording from around the 50s or 60s. My favorite is the Hollywood Quartet's recording.

The late Beethoven string quartets

Shostakovich's string quartets, though the 8th & esp. 15th fit thread title most

Peteris Vasks 'Musica Dolorosa' as well as his 4th string quartet

That's because Górecki's symphony is hackneyed, dull, overrated and cheesy

No it isn't.

Also, Gavin Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic.

;)

OH FUCK

Giya Kancheli's 'Lament'!!!!

And Part's Tabula Rasa too.

Charles Tournemire's magnup opus for organ L'Orgue Mystique

magnum*

more

Luigi Nono - "fragmente-stille" for String Quartet
Jean Sibelius - A Lonely Ski-Trail
Morton Feldman - Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety
Alexander Scriabin - Preludes, Op. 74
Witold Lutosławski - Interlude
Arnold Schoenberg - "Farben" from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

also Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question and the "Rockstrewn Hills" movement from the second orchestral set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5UEZuFMXE

Were you able to find any of these, Omar?

good recommendations, based on my youtube listenings...i actually picked up a morton feldman album last week (guess which, lol) and it's pretty amazing. might make another classical run today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CS5vbp2eWU

John Ireland, 'Down by the Salley Gardens' sung by Janet Baker

edit: I think the lyrics are by WB Yeats?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPZbHNuZzI

Always puts me in mind of Carpenter's music for Halloween:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKDQYXny5EQ

Peteris Vasks 'Gramata cellam''

I love the end of Holst's Uranus

I'll be haunted by this sentence