On the topic of funeral music...
I have a whole developing playlist of classical music for my life (almost entirely late 19th century/early 20th century Germanic and Russian). It ends with one of Richard Strauss's 'Four Last Songs' (I want to die to this music although if things go badly it'll probably be some cataclysmic Mahler instead) before heading into Wagner's 'Siegfried's Funeral March' from the opera Gotterdammerung (which you might know from the fabulously bonkers film Excalibur) and then returns to Richard Strauss for 'Tod and Verklarung' (Death and Transfiguration).
Also on my list (but not associated with death) are Nielsen's Helios Overture, Smetana's Ma Vlast, the slow movement of Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto (as used in the film Bridge of Spies), the theme from 'The Onedin Line' from Khachaturian's 'Spartacus', some Sibelius (probably the opening of the icy cold 4th Symphony), some Brahms (there's a particular orgasmically swelling crescendo in one of the symphonies that I have in mind), some Mahler (reaches deep inside and tears out your soul) and obviously some Tchaikovsky (something from at least one of the 4th, 5th or 6th symphonies and perhaps March Slav which was apparently my favourite music when I was little).
I doubt much of this music is anyone else's cup of tea here but I guess you never know (my mother never used to like my taste in what she described as 'troubled music').
I have a whole developing playlist of classical music for my life (almost entirely late 19th century/early 20th century Germanic and Russian). It ends with one of Richard Strauss's 'Four Last Songs' (I want to die to this music although if things go badly it'll probably be some cataclysmic Mahler instead) before heading into Wagner's 'Siegfried's Funeral March' from the opera Gotterdammerung (which you might know from the fabulously bonkers film Excalibur) and then returns to Richard Strauss for 'Tod and Verklarung' (Death and Transfiguration).
Also on my list (but not associated with death) are Nielsen's Helios Overture, Smetana's Ma Vlast, the slow movement of Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto (as used in the film Bridge of Spies), the theme from 'The Onedin Line' from Khachaturian's 'Spartacus', some Sibelius (probably the opening of the icy cold 4th Symphony), some Brahms (there's a particular orgasmically swelling crescendo in one of the symphonies that I have in mind), some Mahler (reaches deep inside and tears out your soul) and obviously some Tchaikovsky (something from at least one of the 4th, 5th or 6th symphonies and perhaps March Slav which was apparently my favourite music when I was little).
I doubt much of this music is anyone else's cup of tea here but I guess you never know (my mother never used to like my taste in what she described as 'troubled music').
