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Special: Requiem for a Scream, Mon 10/31 @ 10pm - tune in if you dare

Classical 91.5 WXXO-FM

Published October 11, 2022 at 9:35 AM EDT

Design by Michelle Kim

https://www.michigandaily.com/music/top-10-spooky-pieces-of-classical-music/

Get comfortable and tune in...if you dare! Daniel Gilliam presents "Requiem for a Scream" with bone-chilling music from John Carpenter's "Halloween," Michael Abel's score for Jordan Peele's "Us," and selections from "Beetlejuice" and "The Shining." You won't be able to escape the grip of death in Franz Liszt's "Totentanz" or the mystery of Alexander Scriabin's "Black Mass" sonata. It's gonna be fun! And terrifying.

John Carpenter: Halloween Theme (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Frederic Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Funeral March (Idil Biret, p)
Michael Abels: Selections from Us (Studio Orchestra; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (Atlanta Symphony; Yoel Levi, cond)
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Sonata, The Devil’s Trill (excerpt) (Ensemble Respighi; Marco Rogliano, v)
Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Black Mass (Daniil Trifonov, p)
Danny Elfman: Selection from Beetlejuice (Studio Orchestra; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Wendy Carlos: Opening Theme from The Shining (Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bela Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (German Radio Philharmonic; Pietari Inkinen, cond)
Franz Liszt: Totentanz (Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p)
Bernard Herrmann: Psycho: A Narrative for Orchestra (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bernard Herrmann, cond)
Edvard Grieg: Excerpts from In the Hall of the Mountain King (San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, cond)
Giuseppe Verdi: Witches Chorus from Macbeth (Ambrosian Opera Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Lamberto Gardelli, cond)
Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre (Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin; Heinz Rogner)
Gyorgy Ligeti: Excerpt from Apparitions (Berlin Philharmonic; Jonathan Nott, cond)