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Halloween Special

Get ready for a mix of music from darkness into light.

Join Jamie for an evening of frightfully good music! But it’s not just music about ghosts and ghouls however, as Jamie also looks ahead to All Souls Day, The Day of the Dead (celebrated most famously in Mexico), and the festival of lights - Diwali. So get ready for a mix of music from darkness, into light.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 31 Oct 2021 19:00

Music Played

  • Danny Elfman

    This is Halloween

    Performer: Glenn Shadix. Performer: Ken Page. Orchestra: Walt Disney Studio Orchestra. Conductor: J.A.C. Redford.
    • The Nightmare Before Christmas OST.
    • Walt Disney.
    • 4.
  • Philip Glass

    Candyman (Main Theme)

    Performer: Feico Deutekom.
    • Feico Solo.
    • Zefir.
  • Hildur GuĂ°nadĂłttir

    Call Me Joker

    Performer: Hildur GuĂ°nadĂłttir. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Joker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Watertower Music.
  • John Carpenter

    Halloween

    • Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998.
    • Sacred Bones Records.
    • 7.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Psycho Suite

    Music Arranger: Richard Birchall. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Herrmann: Chamber Works.
    • Signum.
    • 5.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    When the night wind howls (Ruddigore)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Radiokören. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • John Bennet

    The Dark is my Delight

    Singer: Daniel Taylor. Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Ensemble: Les Voix humaines.
    • The Best of Daniel Taylor.
    • ATMA.
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    La Llorona

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Singer: Rolando VillazĂłn.
    • Serenata Latina.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Kristen Anderson‐Lopez

    Remember Me (Coco)

    Composer: Robert J Lopez. Performer: Benjamin Bratt.
    • Coco: Original Animation Soundtrack.
    • Walt Disney Records.
  • Ben Parry

    Lighten Our Darkness

    Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: Royal Holloway Choir.
    • The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2101.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1, 'Ghost' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Hungarian Trio.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • John Williams

    Jaws (main theme)

    Orchestrator: Nick Ingman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Classic Cinema Part 3.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐SaĂ«ns

    Danse macabre

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Performer: Maya Iwabuchi. Conductor: Neeme JĂ€rvi.
    • Saint-Saens: Neeme Jarvi conducts.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Dies irae (Requiem)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Verdi: Requiem.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.
  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)

    Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 125.
  • Evelyn Glennie

    Light in Darkness

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • Evelyn Glennie: Greatest Hits.
    • RCA Victor.
  • Ravi Shankar

    Prashanti (Passages)

    • Philip Glass - The Complete Sony Recordings.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Spirit Of Scotland.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Sonata in G minor B.g5 (Devil's trill)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Christian Curnyn. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Nicola Benedetti, Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost Rag

    Performer: Paul Jacobs.
    • Stravinsky: Music for Four Hands.
    • Arbiter.
    • 24.
  • Robert McBride

    Pumpkin Eater's Little Fugue

    Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: Tutti Camarata.
    • Modern American Composers Vol. 1.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • Rudolf Kempe.
    • TESTAMENT.
    • 006.

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Oct 2021 19:00