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Music for Fairies, Witches and Magic

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Music for fairies, witches and magic

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