Looking for powerful and 'spooky' Choir/Orchestra works

[karlhenning]

That sinister waltz from Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony.

Are you proposing to add a choir to that work? 

[Maciek]

Oom-pah-pah

[pjme]

Florent Schmitt

Both the "Psaume" and "La tragédie de Salomé" have been recorded (succesfully) before. But this is a brandnew version and there's a lot of lovely noise....The Psalm in something like extremely pompous neo - Bachian-quasi Handelian grandeur , the Tragédie in bloodcurdling uninhibited silent movie horror - style....( of course, combined with the sweetest violinsolo's and ethereal soprano laments).

Play it very loud and enjoy! ( but warn the neighbours!)

Peter

[m_gigena]

Are you proposing to add a choir to that work? 

Please don't. Leave it unchoraled.


So "Choir/orchestra" means additive enunciation?

[Kiddiarni]

That depends on what additive enunciate means.



And one more thing, do you have any suggestions for 'culty' chants?

[m_gigena]

That depends on what additive enunciate means.

I was thinking that Choir/Orchestra means Choir and or orchestra. Not Choir+orchestra.

And one more thing, do you have any suggestions for 'culty' chants?

Aside Liadov's From the Apocalypse, no. Nothing comes to my mind right now.

[beclemund]

I was most recently frightened by Górecki's 2nd symphony...

[gomro]

That depends on what additive enunciate means.



And one more thing, do you have any suggestions for 'culty' chants?

You mean something you should chant, or something the music is chanting?  As far as creepy chant goes, right here is my vote:

http://www.amazon.com/Koyaanisqatsi-1998-Re-recording-Philip-Glass/dp/customer-reviews/B00000AEDU

First track. And, yeah, it's that guy again.

[Kiddiarni]

I'm talking about stuff like that you linked me.

Like Gregorian chants, but spooky ones.  The ones I've heard are all "praise the lord" stuff, and not really 'cultlike' and spooky.

[gomro]

I'm talking about stuff like that you linked me.

Like Gregorian chants, but spooky ones.  The ones I've heard are all "praise the lord" stuff, and not really 'cultlike' and spooky.

Try Magma's Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh and Kohntarkosz. This isn't "classical", but it's full of angry, spooky chants, in an unknown tongue, yet! Magma's leader, drummer/composer Christian Vander, was inspired by Orff, Stravinsky, Bartok, Coltrane, Stockhausen...and it sounds like it, too. If you can't find this stuff (it isn't easy, but I think www.waysidemusic.com still carries it) send me an e-mail and I will post you an mp3 or two, so you can see if this fits your design.

[Lethevich]

Oh, that reminds me. For non classical (like overblown film music) try Elend. There seem to be some samples of their loudest album here:

http://www.amazon.com/Umbersun-Elend/dp/B0000088A0

Edit1: OMG the price lol It shouldn't be THAT difficult to find the thing cheaply, or to DL if that isn't possible.

Edit2: Damn, the reviews for that thing make me cringe.

[Joe Barron]

Heck, I was going to recommend some of Ives's choral music, like the Harvest Home Chorales or Psalm 90, but I just relized they are not available on CD.

Pooh.

[karlhenning]

Joe, what are you talking about?  arkivmusic shows five separate recordings of the Psalm 90.

[Joe Barron]

Joe, what are you talking about?  arkivmusic shows five separate recordings of the Psalm 90.

OK, but not Harvest Home, which is really the better choice for this category. So there. 

[Scriptavolant]

Spooky? Petrassi's "Coro di Morti". Brrrr..

[Lady Chatterley]

How about Mussorgsky's choral version of the Night on Bald Mountain? oooooh... spooky!

[Maciek]

How about Mussorgsky's choral version of the Night on Bald Mountain? oooooh... spooky!

Wow! I need to hear that!

[Lady Chatterley]

Lovely original version on NAXOS.

[BachQ]

Arnold Lento of Symphony No. 9
Bartok Bluebeard's Castle excerpts
Bazzini Round of the Goblins
Beethoven Ghost Trio
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Witches Sabbath; March to Scaffold
Bernstein The Dybbuk
Caplet Conte Fantastique; Masque of the Red Death
Chopin Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35; 3rd mmt Funeral March
Copland Grohg
Cowell Banshee
DiLorenzo Vampires Race Home from Dracula
Dukas Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dvorak The Noonday Witch
Dvorak The Water Goblin
Falla El Amor Brujo
Franck Le Chasseur Maudit
Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
Hanson The Lament for Beowulf
Hermann Psycho
Hermann Devil and Daniel Webster
Hovhaness Symphony #50 Mount St. Helens
Humperdinck Witches Ride from Hansel and Gretel
Ibert Macbeth
Ives Halloween
Ligeti Le Grand macabre
Liszt Totentanz
Lutoslavski string quartet, 1mmt
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Mendelssohn Erste Walpurgisnacht
MacDowell Hexentanz
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky Gnombes from Pictures
Paganini Le Streghe
Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Prokofiev The Enemy Of God And The Dance Of The Black Spirits from Schythian Suite
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Purcell In Guilty Night
Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead
Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Salzedo The Witch Boy ballet
Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire
Schubert Erlkönig
Strauss finale Electra
Strauss Alleseelen
Tartini Devil's Trill
Verdi Dies Irae Tuba Minum from Requiem
Verdi Macbeth
Webber Phantom of the Opera
Williams The Witches of Eastwick