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

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Scion7

October 31, 2020, 12:47:57 PM


LISZT - Mephisto Waltz

When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

André

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October 31, 2020, 01:45:42 PM
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

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October 31, 2020, 02:44:51 PM
^ good choices - will have to run thru those

When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

André

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October 31, 2020, 03:07:51 PM
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

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October 31, 2020, 03:09:30 PM
Yes, I think the original composition was a chamber piece, later orchestrated.
Slatkin has a version that he conducted up on YouTube.
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

André

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October 31, 2020, 03:17:30 PM
Thanks for the tip. I see that the Prêtre version too is on YT. I will check both.

Cato

#6
October 31, 2020, 03:46:50 PM
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








"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

André

#7
October 31, 2020, 04:39:39 PM
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

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October 31, 2020, 09:25:34 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2020, 09:42:59 PM by André Le Nôtre
Ravel, Gaspard (piano, as originally written, no transcriptions for guitar! or orchestra!) played by Walter Gieseking.

Scion7

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November 01, 2020, 01:38:45 AM
Edward MacDowell, Fireside Tales, Op.61 No.5 - A Haunted House


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6PXsnMcb0
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

Mirror Image

#10
November 07, 2020, 06:09:06 PM
I usually listen to Scelsi and Penderecki on Halloween. This usually does the trick.

André

#12
November 13, 2020, 06:50:54 AM
+1. Love that disc !

relm1

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November 13, 2020, 06:54:17 AM
Definitely add this one to your list.  Derek Bourgeois "Chamber of Horrors".

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

relm1

#14
November 13, 2020, 06:58:05 AM
Niels Marthinsen's Monster Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFBEhAQbj8
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