Music for fairies, witches and magic

For anyone who may use music for meditation / ritual or whatver, here are a few suggestions for Classical pieces that may be useful. Not an exhaustive list by any means but a start … Oh and BTW they are all great for Halloween too … Give yer Samhain a bit of claSSical class 🙂

• Malcolm Arnold – Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51
• J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue
• Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
• Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
• Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marcheau supplice (March to the Scaffold)
• George Whitefield Chadwick – Symphonic Sketches: III. Hobgoblin
• Debussy – solo piano works eg. Nocturne Sirenes
• Paule Dukas – L’Apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
• Antonin Dvorak – The Noon Witch B. 196, Op. 108
• Feldman – Coptic Light
• Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
• James (Seumas) Gagne – Cantata For Beltain;
• James (Seumas) Gagne Oratorio on the Charge of the Goddess.
• Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op. 54: No. 3. March of the Trolls
• Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
• Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov – Baba Yaga, Op. 56
• Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov – Kikimora, Op. 63
• Franz Liszt: Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke ‘Mephisto Waltz No. 1’
• Franz Liszt – Totentanz
• Edward MacDowell – 2 Fantasiestucke, Op. 17: No. 2. Hexentanz (Witches Dance)
• Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
• Sergei Rachmaninov – The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
• Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre, Op. 40
• Erik Satie – Gymnopaedia
• Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
• Mozart – Lacrimosa (from Requiem K. 626)
• Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky – St. John’s Night on Bald
• Mountain: “A Night on the Bare Mountain” (arr. N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Verdi – Requiem
• Hildegard von Bingen – The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen
• Wagner – Der Valkyrie (The Ring Cycle)
• Widor – Toccata
• John Williams – The Five Saced Trees A Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (Inspired by Robert Graves’ The White Goddess’)

• Lost in Meditation: Meditative Gregorian Chants, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
• Chant and Chant II – Gregorian Chant; The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
• Gregorian Chants: The Best of the Benedictine Monks of St. Michael’s