This year for Halloween, I plan to pass out candy with my studio name on it again and wear my piano costume dress again. I was thinking about having some scary classical music playing on my porch too, so I compiled a list of music! Let me know if you have any suggestions to add to the list. 🙂
Alkan – Prelude Op. 31 No. 8 (a madwoman at the seashore)- Bach (previously attributed to Bach) – Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
- Bartok – 3rd movement of Suite Op. 14
Bartok – 1st, 4th and 5th movements of Out of Doors Suite - Bartok – Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio)
- Berlioz – “Dream Of A Witches’ Sabbath.”
- Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique
- Wendy Carlos – Incantation from Beauty in the Beast
- Chopin – Marche Funebre
- Chopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 14 in E-flat minor
- Corigliano – 4th movement of Piano Concerto
- Corigliano – 4th movement of Etude Fantasy (“Ornaments”)
- Cowell – The Banshee
- Daugherty – Viola Zombie
- de Falla – Dance of Terror (check out the Bragiotti arrangement for 2 pianos, too)
- Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (also check out the 2-piano arrangement by Rabinovitch)
- George Crumb – Vox balaenae Continue reading “Classical Music To Attract (or Scare) Your Trick-Or-Treaters”
