A survey of spooky songs for Halloween, including the frightening vision of Schubert’s Der Doppelgänger, murder ballads like Carl Loewe’s Edward, and terrible monsters like Wolseley Charles’s The Green-Eyed Dragon.
Spooky Songs
Laura Strickling (Photo: Christina Ramirez)
Playlist
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Antoine Tamestit, viola
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Richard Strauss: Junghexenlied
Edita Gruberova, soprano
Friedrich Haider, piano
Felix Mendelssohn: Hexenlied
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano
Clara Schumann: Lorelei
Golda Schultz, soprano
Jonathan Ware, piano
Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Max Baillie, violin
Anna Tilbrook, piano
Cecilia Livingston: “Circe” from Salt Air
Lyrics by Duncan McFarlane and Cecilia Livingston
Laura Strickling, soprano
Joy Schreier, piano
Strauss: Frühlingsfeier
Julia Varady, soprano
Elena Bashkirova, piano
Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen
Kurt Moll, bass
Cord Garben, piano
Robert Schumann: “Zwielicht” from Liederkreis, Op. 39
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Saskia Giorgini, piano
Schubert: “Der Doppelganger” from Schwanengesang
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Martin Helmchen, piano
Carl Loewe: Edward
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Simon Lepper, piano
Kurt Weill: “Pirate Jenny” from The Threepenny Opera
Nina Simone, vocals and piano
Bobby Hamilton, drums
Wolseley Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon
Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
Julius Drake, piano