Music for Halloween Suggestions

[hildegard]

Yes well, if I find my reading spectacles, I might take a guess at it.
Greetings from cold Holland.....

Well, here's a larger version for you! Compliments of Amazon.

   


BTW, that Organ Symphony is just gorgeous!

[Harry]

Well, here's a larger version for you! Compliments of Amazon.

   


BTW, that Organ Symphony is just gorgeous!

E. Power Biggs, capital
Well Bernstein was never a item in my collection, but you tempt me......

[hildegard]

Well, here's a larger version for you! Compliments of Amazon.

   


BTW, that Organ Symphony is just gorgeous!

E. Power Biggs, capital
Well Bernstein was never a item in my collection, but you tempt me......

Well, Harry, we know you have very eclectic taste, but this reading of Mussorgsky's Pictures is one of my favorites, although the quality of this recording leaves much to be desired.

[Harry]

Well, Harry, we know you have very eclectic taste, but this reading of Mussorgsky's Pictures is one of my favorites, although the quality of this recording leaves much to be desired.

And since I am a HIFI addict, I will pass this one, if you allow me Hildegard.

[hildegard]

And since I am a HIFI addict, I will pass this one, if you allow me Hildegard.

I will pass on too, to this.



As you can tell, I love Entremont. He both conducts and plays on the Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals mentioned above.

Sorry, I can't get a larger image of this one for you.

[Harry]

I will pass on too, to this.



As you can tell, I love Entremont. He both conducts and plays on the Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals mentioned above.

Sorry, I can't get a larger image of this one for you.

O, dear, those little images. I know you are still a young girl and have fine eyes, but me a old man, has quite some difficulties with it.
Believe it or not, but I have no recording of this Carnivale, but I have the DVD's

[Norbeone]

Webern , lots of Bach organ works, and Danny Elfman's score to The Nightmare Before Christmas!

[gomro]

Suggest some classical music perfect for Halloween please:

Two that come to mind instantly are

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach
Symphony Fantastique (last mvt) - Berlioz

What else?

Many pieces have already been mentioned. I will mention a few that haven't been:

Messiaen - Dieu parmi nous (from La Nativite du Seigneur) for organ; the last movement of Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorem, a terrifying chorale for brass and clangorous percussion.

Penderecki - De natura sonoris I and II; Capriccio for violin and orchestra; Fecit potentiam from Magnificat. Very eerie orchestral works.

Schwartz - Jack O Lantern for orchestra and lights. You won't get the lights with a recording, but the piece itself is acceptably spooky...

Horwood - The Dark Ride from Amusement Park Suite. Captures the feel of a haunted house very nicely.

Hanson - 4th mvt. of the Third Symphony.

Ruggles - Sun-Treader. Immense symphonic piece that was inspired by some lines from Browning, but sounds like it was inspired by some lines from Lovecraft.

Varese - Poeme electronique. Classic electronic work, very, very strange.

Xenakis - Terretektorh. Huge, amorphous orchestral piece that seems to have influenced nearly every creepy moment in modern films.

[Scriptavolant]

The music I'm listening to right now:



Last year Naxos issued a list of Cds for Halloween celebrations. I bought this one:



Adolph Deutsch, music from the Maltese Falcon.

And the following (still sealed):

[Tsaraslondon]

What about the Prologue to Boito's Mefistofele?

Or Lady Macbeth's Act 1 cabaletta, Or tutti sorgete, ministri infernale, from Verdi's Macbeth?

[hildegard]

This whole album:




Even if it ain't Hillary, Shaham is one of my major favorite fiddlers. 

I will definitely look into this album, of which I was not aware.

Shaham is also at the top of my list, as is his sister Orli as a pianist.

[Cato]

Prokofiev's Third Symphony, Hartmann's First or Sixth Symphonies

And of course good ol' The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas

[12tone.]

Threnody.

On this.

Front lawn.

[mikkeljs]

Nobody mentioned Ives´ Hallowe´en for strings, piano and percussion!

[Ten thumbs]

Are those masked children at my door going to perform any of the above?
My request to them will be for L'Enfer from Alkan's Grand Duo (for violin and piano) Op. 21