Halloween 2020! What Classical pieces do you have queued up?

[Scion7]

LISZT - Mephisto Waltz

[André]

I caught CBC Radio 3 in the car, with the following playlist:

- Don Giovanni, the banquet with the stone guest scene. Fricsay, DG
- Siegfried, Act 3 scene 2 (unless it's vice versa), the slaying of the dragon. Kurt Böhme singing in a bullhorn with Solti. Creepy as hell.
- Gnomus from Mussorgsky's Pictures. Sviatoslav Richter.
- The Mask of the Red Death by André Caplet. Georges Prêtre. Didn't know this piece. Eerie and screechy.

[Scion7]

^ good choices - will have to run thru those

[André]

I just found out I have the Caplet piece. Except it's called 'Conte fantastique'. Also, the version I have is for string quartet and harp. The Prêtre disc I heard was for string orchestra and harp. I must try to find it.

[Scion7]

Yes, I think the original composition was a chamber piece, later orchestrated.
Slatkin has a version that he conducted up on YouTube.

[André]

Thanks for the tip. I see that the Prêtre version too is on YT. I will check both.

[Cato]

Bernard Herrmann's Sinfonietta for Strings presages his score for Psycho:


https://www.youtube.com/v/bXXN9rCVadg


https://www.youtube.com/v/tCY0CqzbHLI


An all-around fave:


https://www.youtube.com/v/GGraYe4i3qI

[André]

I never tire from Malcolm Arnold's Tam O'Shanter. The Paul Daniel version is a favourite, with spookiness galore. The encounter with Old Nick is terrific !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsqs2yjx6U

[André Le Nôtre]

Ravel, Gaspard (piano, as originally written, no transcriptions for guitar! or orchestra!) played by Walter Gieseking.

[Scion7]

Edward MacDowell, Fireside Tales, Op.61 No.5 - A Haunted House


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6PXsnMcb0

[Mirror Image]

I usually listen to Scelsi and Penderecki on Halloween. This usually does the trick.

[Xenophanes]

Music from Philip Feeney's Dracula. Excellent sound.

https://www.amazon.com/Dracula-FEENEY/dp/B0000014FU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=feeney+dracula&qid=1605232335&s=music&sr=1-1

[André]

+1. Love that disc !

[relm1]

Definitely add this one to your list.  Derek Bourgeois "Chamber of Horrors".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvpzRvvRxOg

[relm1]

Niels Marthinsen's Monster Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFBEhAQbj8