The Demonic Connection

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A scene from the "A Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from Walt Disney's animated classic, Fantasia.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

So goes the old Scottish prayer--and this hour--with demonic music by Mussorgsky, Saint-Saens, Britten, Bernstein, and more.

FEATURED RECORDINGS

Title	Group/Artist	Catalog #	UPC
L'Apprenti Sorcier [for Danse Macabre]	Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson	EMI France 5 55385 2	724355538520
1000 Years of Gregorian Chant (History of Music, Disc 3)	Deller Consort	Harmonia Mundi HMX2908165	794881783229
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique	London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis	LSO-Live LSO0007	822231100720
Liszt: Klavierkonzerte 1 & 2, Totentanz	Krystian Zimerman , Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa	Deutsche Gramophone D 105620	028942357129
Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches, MacDowell Suite	Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Hanson	Mercury Living Presence 434337	028943433723
Dvorak Symphony No. 6, Water Goblin, etc.	Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler	Opus 99570	5028421995700
Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing	London Symphony Orchestra, Boult	EMI Classics CDM 5672202	724356722026
Bernstein: Dybbuk / Fancy Free	Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia	Naxos 8.559280	636943928028
Britten: The Turn of the Screw	Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding	Virgin Classics 4563792	5099945637926
Orchestral Music of Sibelius, Larsson, Sallinen	Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Petri Sakari	Chamber Sound CSCD-9102	(none)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc. [for Night on Bald Mountain]	Finnish Radio Symphony, Neeme Jarvi	BIS CD-325	7318590003251

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