In the spirit of All Hallows’ Eve, we bring you a playlist of favorite works spawned from midsummer nights, an enchanted lake, and a moon described as a floating white tomb. Selections include works by Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Ives, Julia Adolphe, Igor Stravinsky, and Gustav Mahler.
“There, in the Night”
Playlist
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture and Scherzo
George Szell, conductor
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Adolphe: Dark Sand, Sifting Light
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Stravinsky: Le Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Berlioz: Clair de lune from Les Nuits d’été
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 7, IV. Night Music: Andante amoroso
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake
Alan Gilbert, conductor