From Bates Motel to Black Swan, here’s your classical soundtrack for a frightfully good night.
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If you love Halloween as much as you love great music, you’re in for a treat (and maybe a few tricks). We’ve paired some of cinema’s creepiest classics with equally chilling performances from the medici.tv catalog. Dim the lights, pour yourself something mysterious, and press play—if you dare.
…listen to Bernard Hermann’s Psycho!
Bernard Hermann’s iconic staccato strings will get your heartrate racing on the rainy road to the Bates Motel (overnight stays not recommended).
…listen to John Williams’s Jaws!
The members of the LA Philharmonic still aren’t ready to get back in the water…
…listen to Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
Come and play with us, Danny, forever… and ever… or just long enough to hear the spooky sounds of Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta before riding away from Room 237.
…listen to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
Don’t peer too deeply into the darkness at the heart of this beloved ballet: if you lose yourself in the music, a case of mistaken identity may arise …
…listen to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, ‘Aria da capo’.
Get a nice bottle of Chianti (fava beans optional) and enjoy Hannibal Lecter’s favorite prison-break soundtrack.
…listen to Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929, ‘Andante’.
David Bowie starred in this vampiric cult classic, but the most memorable soundtrack notes include the magnificently haunting Andante from this chamber music favorite.
…listen to Unsuk Chin, Alice in Wonderland, ‘A Mad Tea Party’.
A delightfully macabre take on the Lewis Carroll classic that leans into hallucinatory territory untouched by the Disney retelling…
Whether you crave psychological suspense, gothic fantasy, or surreal madness, these musical pairings prove that classical music can be every bit as chilling—and thrilling—as your favorite horror flick.
