A pre-Halloween show featuring favorite spooky classics, from Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” to Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique.” (French composers, you’ll notice, seem to dote on horrific weirdness.)
7-9 p.m. EDT
2300-0100 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Mussorgsky: “Night on Bald Mountain”
(original version)
London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
(RCA)
Bernard Herrmann: “Psycho: a Narrative for Orchestra”
London Philharmonic/Bernard Hermann
(Decca)
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor (“The Devil’s Trill”)
Gil Shaham, violin
Jonathan Feldman, piano
(Deutsche Grammophon)
André Caplet: “Conte fantastique”
Lockenhaus Festival Ensemble
(ECM)
Saint-Saëns: “Danse macabre”
Maya Iwabuchi, violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
(Chandos)
Berlioz: “Symphonie fantastique”
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Munch
(RCA)
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