Musical spirits will haunt the PT airwaves on Halloween. Gentle, blessed spirits by Christoph Gluck. The ghost of Banquo, from Shakespeare's Macbeth, by Richard Strauss. A pinch of Edgar Allan Poe. Some music inspired by Dracula. A dancing devil. And the preferred music of every movie villain who ever had a pipe organ stashed in his basement, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Charles Gounod: Funeral March for a Marionette
The BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Andre Caplet: Tale of Fantasy, after the Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Festival Musicians
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont
Kurt Schwertsik: Sunset, from Dracula's House and Court Music, Op. 18
Lucerne Festival Strings, Achim Fiedler, conductor
Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
Leos Janacek: Excerpts from On the Overgrown Path, Book I, JW VIII/17
The Calefax Reed Quintet, Geert Bierling, harmonium
De Doelen Hall, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Richard Strauss: Macbeth, Op. 23, TrV 163
The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski, conductor
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
Hour 2
John Williams: The Arrival of Baby Harry, from Harry Potter
Studio Orchestra and London Voices, John Williams, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
Jan Hora, organ
St. James' Basilica, Prague, Czech Republic
John Williams: Devil's Dance from the Witches of Eastwick
Benny Kim, violin, Sebastian Knauer, piano
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Traditional (Arranged by David Russell): The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond and the Devil's at Large
David Russell, guitar
92nd Street Y, New York City
Leon Boellmann: Toccata in C Minor from Gothic Suite
The Soave Duo
Mihail Jora Hall, Bucharest, Romania
Peter Tchaikovsky: First movement from Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus and Eurydice
Emmanuel Pahud, flute, the German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergaard, conductor
Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany
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