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