Haunted
At this time of year, the streets are full of pumpkins, and the shops are full of tiny sweets and glittery costumes, so I have celebrated this with a new youtube playlist.
As our theme, I have chosen music that explores our relationship with heaven and earth, death, transformation, haunting, dances, and folklore.
I have included in the playlist a range of different settings - opera, wind band, orchestra, chanson/lieder, choral, organ solo… with both well-known favourites and also a few more unusual pieces that I hope you will enjoy getting to know.
I have a blog post with music details and a link to the youtube playlist, which you can find here:
As the old saying goes, ‘It is always darkest before the dawn’ so fear not! Not all my playlists are dark and spooky, go and have an explore!
But until then, enjoy my dark and chilling playlist and my other blog posts for the season are linked to make it easy to find them.
Haunting Music: Dark Chilling Music to sit with you a while
Ghosts: 1. The Haunting, by Stephen McNeff, featuring the Band of the Royal Air Force, conducted by Chris L’anson and Mark Heron
The Water Goblin, by Dvorak, featuring the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jamie Philips
Au cimitière, Op. 51 no. 2 by Fauré, sung by Leontyne Price accompanied by David Garvey
Night on Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1941 Theatrical Cut) by Mussorgsky, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla, Das Rheingold, by Wagner, Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine
Waldesgespräch, from Liederkreis op39 by Robert Schumann, sung by Fietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Günther Weissenborn
Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath, from Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz, played by Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Sit Colin Davis
Transformation Music, Act 1 of Parsifal, by Wagner, 1998 Bayreuth production conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli
Commendatore Scene, Don Giovanni, by Mozart, sung by Samuel Ramey (Giovanni), Kurt Moll (Commendatore) and Ferrruccio Furlanetto (Leporello)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 by Bach, played by Liene Andreta at Riga Cathedral in Latvia
March to the Scaffold, from Symphony Fantastique, by Berlioz, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Aria: Betracht dies Herz und frage mich, from Grabmusik k42 IV, by Mozart, sung by Karita Mattila with the Berliner Phiharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado
Dies Irae, Requiem, by Verdi, with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Claudio Abbado
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March, from Göttterdämmerung, by Wagner, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Klaus Tennstedt
Ghosts III The Dog of Godley, by Stephen McNeff, featuring the Band of the Royal Air Force, conducted by Chris L’anson and Mark Heron
Funeral March, by Felix Mendelssohn, with the Musique des Gardiens de la paix de Paris, conducted by Désiré Dondeyne
Im Abendrot, from Vier Letzte Lieder, by Richard Strauss, sung by Asmik Grigorian with the Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
