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Good Music for a dark and stormy night

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historysock · 25/10/2019 19:53

It's a dark and stormy night...where I am at least...
I've got a fire on the go and the candles lit and I'm curled up with the Dogs, a nice glass of Sancerre and my book.
My Music of choice for these exact conditions is Us and Us Only by The Charlatans. It's my go to for this sort of evening but I can never listen to it in the summer for some reason..
Does anyone else have albums they like for certain conditions and if so, what?

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Muckycat · 02/11/2019 12:10

Not really weather conditions but if I'm under the cosh with a deadline or need a kick in the arse to get something done, All Change by Cast. It's kind of workmanlike and methodical and helps me face big tasks logically

JoyceDivision · 02/11/2019 12:20

Some Nick Cave would be perfect!

Or Rebecca Hall, especially Winter with Voces

Fishcakey · 02/11/2019 17:10

Keane, Hopes and Fears. I can't have music and read at the same time though weirdly. I can ignore TV noise whilst I read but not music so tonight it's candles, Malbec and a Jenny Colgan book to the background of utterly shite Saturday night TV.

TheMaestro · 08/11/2019 20:43

Th storm section from the Alpine Symphony is superb (the whole symphony is).

Tchaikovsky's The Tempest? (OK, it's about Shakespeares play, but it is very tempestuous). The Voyevode is also very much in that mood.

Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead, very dark and brooding.

Saint-Saëns - Le Deluge?

Debussy - La Mer, in particular the last movement "Dialogue Du Vent Et De La Mer"

Martinů's Double concerto for strings, piano and timpani has a stormy feel to it. His 3rd Symphony is also good for that.

Any of the Pettersson symphonies quite frankly.

Poulenc's Organ Concerto is very dark and brooding, with loud moments.

Another one is Bruckner's 3rd Symphony, not quite so brooding, but has a very "scenic" feel. (Only the 1889 version though)

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