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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I never hear anyone here talk about classical fright music but if you're ever in the mood may I suggest Saint-Saens's DANSE MACABRE OP. 40 or Grieg's IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (CHOURALE VERSION)?
Good stuff...
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2001 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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I'll bang my head until it breaks clean off my neck! And I thought that the music score for Carnival Of Souls was really creepy too.
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 4:10 am Post subject: |
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I'll keep on banging my head too, but I wouldn't mind it if you put together a list of suggestions of CDs with some good classic creepy music. Like, what versions and performers would you suggest?
Scott R
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 10:17 am Post subject: |
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I like that idea Scott. I would also like the get a hold of this list. And if you want creepy, get the Halloween soundtrack. It gave me the creeps when I heard it at night once.
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 12:16 am Post subject: |
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As far as creepy classical music goes, there are a number of collections out there. One of my favorites is Chiller, performed by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. It includes amongst others Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (remember the scene in Disney's Fantasia), Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre (the 1894 symphonic poem about death playing violin and dancing in a graveyard at midnight, which cleverly uses a xylophone as the rattling of bones and samples Die Irae from the Requium mass), Berlioz' March to the Scaffold (from Symphonie Fantastique) and Pandemonium (from the Damnation of Faust), Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King (which was the tune whistled by the sadistic child murderer played by Peter Lorre in the movie M. The tune is used in Zacherley's "Happy Halloween" song. The group SRC, on their Milestones LP, does a tremendous version of In the Hall of the Mountain King.), Funeral March of a Marionette (we know it as the theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents) by Gounod. Another collection I like is Classics from the Crypt, a collection of various orchestras including Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, and inclues some others like Bach's Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor (sounds like it's from a Phantom of the Opera movie), Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltz (The very tone of the music is haunted and evil. It was rumored that Liszt was in league with the devil, as was said about Paganini. In fact, I have an LP by John Ogdon entitled "the Mephisto Waltz & Other Satanic Piano Music of Liszt."), Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice (also included Disney's Fantasia), and this collection also includes Funeral March of a Marionette, Danse Macabre, In the Hall of the Mountain King. Another of my favorites is Fright Night; Music that Goes Bump in the Night. This is different orchestras, including Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, amongst others. The collection includes Ives' Halloween, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, Holst's Mars, and Humperdink's Witch's Ride, along with Danse Macabre, Night on Bald Mountain, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Funeral March of a Marionette, and Mephisto Waltz. Also in my collection is The Hits of Halloween, which includes the Sacrifice from the Rite of Spring, O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, Prelude to the Tempest, along with Bach's Tocatta & Fugue, Funeral March of Marionettes, and A Night on Bald Mountain.
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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I knew if I waited around long enough someone would do my work for me!! Thanks Jim.
BTW-I've got several of those collections, but a word of warning to all of you who are just starting out on this musical journey. Different conductors and different orchestras make for different takes in classical music. Some,like Ormandy and Bernstein,seem to always do a bang up job.
Now go check it all out, you are in for some good stuff....
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2001 11:55 am Post subject: |
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I live in Cincinnati and I don't own a single Cincinnati Pops CD.
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