The twentieth classical recording: #590 Sergei Rachmaninov - The Isle of the Dead
Dark and slow, this recording sets a definite tone that the title implies. It starts heavy - apparently imitating rowing - and has the shrill sounds that, at the very least, often seems imitated in films for deaths and funerals. The sounds move more towards the glorious, part of the grand landscapes it is trying to invoke (and invokes in my imagination).
I genuinely got drawn into how big it got, how it build and how it went through different phases. There was more going on and even though there isn't text in here, it feels like it builds a story regardless.