Wednesday, October 31, 2012

    

9:00

C Williams:  The Devil’s Galop; New London O/Corp (Hyperion 66868)
Dukas:  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Minnesota O/Oue (Reference 82)
Linley Jr:  Overture from Ode on the Witches and Fairies of Shakespeare; Musicians of the Globe/Pickett (Philips 446 689)
Spohr:  Macbeth Overture, op. 75; Berlin Radio SO/Fröhlich (CPO 999 093)

Schubert:  Erlkönig; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Gerald Moore, piano (EMI 63343)
Khachaturian:  Masquerade Suite; Scottish National O/Järvi (Chandos 8542)
Ives:  Hallowe’en; Gilbert Kalish, piano; New York String Quartet (CBS 45530)

 

10:00

Gounod:  Funeral March of a Marionette; Philadelphia O/Ormandy (CBS 45530)
Bach/arr. Stokowski:  Toccata and Fugue in d, BWV 565; Los Angeles PO/Salonen (Sony 89012)
Rubinstein:  Ballet Music from The Demon; Minnesota O/Oue (Reference 71)
Glazunov:  Chant du ménestral; Clara Rockmore, theremin; Nadia Reisenberg, piano (Delos 1014)
Glass:  Dracula Suite; Bruce Levingston, piano (Sono Luminus 92144)

Saint-Saëns:  Danse macabre; Orchestre National de France/Prêtre (EMI 49637)

Curzon:  Dance of an Ostracised Imp; Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223425)

 

11:00

J Strauss II:  Fancy-dress Parade Polka, op. 240; Vienna Johann Strauss O/Boskovsky (EMI 86019)

Berlioz:  Symphonie fantastique, op. 14: fifth movement “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”; Cincinnati SO/P Järvi (Telarc 80578)

Brade:  The Witches’ Dance; Hespèrion XX/Savall (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77168)
Mussorgsky/arr. Rimsky-Korsakov:  Night on the Bare Mountain; Vienna PO/Gergiev (Philips 468 526)

Liadov:  Scherzo in D, op. 16; BBC PO/Sinaisky (Chandos 9911)
Arlen and Stothart/arr. Hirtz:  The Wizard of Oz Fantasy; Jon Kimura Parker, piano (St Paul Sunday “Master Play” CD)
Hermann:  Music from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film); National PO/Herrmann (London 443 899)
Gilbert and Sullivan/arr. Runswick:  The Ghosts’ High Noon (from Ruddigore); The King’s Singers (RCA 61885)