For this episode of Between Birds of Prey, we will musically think about death and all its consequences.

On the right we have a representation of “The Triumph of Death”, an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562.

Here is the audio and playlist:

1. Beyond Sensory Experience – Funerals (No Lights in Our Eyes)
2. Beyond Sensory Experience – No Lights in Our Eyes (No Lights in Our Eyes)
3. Eldar – The Grave Of Mankind (Sapere Aude)
4. Der Blaue Reiter – Death And Decadence (Silencis)
5. Nox Arcana – Immortal Fire (The Dark Tower)
6. Ozymandias – Longue marche vers la mort (Ahara)
7. Ozymandias – La mort de P.B.S (Isolement)
8. Eluvium – An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death)
9. Johan Söderqvist – Death of Håkan (Låt den Rätte Komma In)
10. Adam Hurst – Death Waltz (Ruin)
11. Edvard Grieg – Aase’s Death
12. Richard Wagner – Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: Siegfried’s Funeral Music (Wagner: The Complete Overtures & Orchestral Music from the Operas)
13. Modest Mussorgsky – Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (Pictures at an Exhibition)
14. Toru Takemitsu – Requiem for Strings (The Best of Toru Takemitsu)
15. Witold Lutosławski – Funeral Music For Strings: Prologue (Funeral Music)
16. Witold Lutosławski – Funeral Music For Strings: Metamorphoses (Funeral Music)
17. Witold Lutosławski – Funeral Music For Strings: Apogeum (Funeral Music)
18. Witold Lutosławski – Funeral Music For Strings: Epilogue (Funeral Music)
19. Vangelis – Immortality (Alexander OST)
20. Dark Sanctuary – Reve Mortuaire (De Lumiere Et D’Obscurite)
21. Brendan Perry – Death Will Be My Bride (Eye of the Hunter)
22. Dead Can Dance – I Am Stretched on Your Grave (Toward the Within)
23. Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows – Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est (Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell)
24. Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows – Procession, Funeral March (Dead Lovers’ Sarabande (Face II))
25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Llacrimosa (Requiem)
26. Zbigniew Preisner – Lacrimosa (Requiem for My Friend)
27. Beyond Sensory Experience – Strange Our Lives Should End (No Lights in Our Eyes)