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A spooky special for Halloween

Sara Mohr-Pietsch curates a spine-tingling selection of music, restless spirits and nocturnal noises for late-night listening. This special Halloween edition of Night Tracks is part of 大象传媒 Sounds鈥檚 Spooky Sounds season.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 31 Oct 2023 23:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV.565 (opening)

    Performer: Jean-Louis Gil.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Danny Elfman

    This is Halloween (The Nightmare before Christmas)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • MCA.
  • Heiner Goebbels

    The Fog

    • Stifters Dinge.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • Tom Waits

    What's he building in there?

    • Mule Variations.
    • Epitaph.
    • 8.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)

    Performer: Carolina Eyck. Music Arranger: Carolina Eyck.
    • Thetis 2086.
    • Neue Meister.
    • 2.
  • David Toop & Laurence English

    Whistling in the dark

    • The shell that speaks the sea.
    • Room40.
    • 4.
  • Radiohead

    Untitled track

    • Kid A.
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Isle of the Dead (last section)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Avie.
  • David Sylvian

    Anomaly at Taw Head (A haunting)

    • Died in the Wool / Manafon Variations.
    • Samadhisound.
    • 10.
  • Mike Oldfield

    Tubular bells Pt.1 (excerpt)

    • Virgin.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlk枚nig D.328

    Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Singer: Stanislas de Barbeyrac. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Warner Classics.
  • John Carpenter

    Matthew ghost story (The Fog)

    • Silva Screen.
  • Bill Evans Trio

    Haunted heart

    • Explorations.
    • Riverside Records.
    • 2.
  • Nico Muhly

    The Only Tune (Oh the wind and the rain)

    Composer: Sam Amidon. Singer: Sam Amidon.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In the hall of the mountain king (Peer Gynt)

    Performer: Ragnhild Hemsing. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Lead Belly

    Where Did You Sleep Last Night

    • The Best of Leadbelly.
    • Goldenlane Records.
    • 1.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Feuillets inedits (no.4)

    Performer: Thomas Bloch. Performer: Bernard Wisson.
    • Naxos.
  • Meredith Monk

    Skeleton lines

    Performer: Bohdan Hilash. Performer: John Hollenbeck. Performer: Allison Sniffin. Performer: Theo Bleckmann. Singer: Meredith Monk.
    • Impermanence.
    • ECM.
  • Daniel Pemberton

    Graveyard

    • 3 Hours of Creepy Sounds for Halloween.
    • Mintjam/Universal.
  • Medeski Martin & Wood

    Nocturne

    • Combustication.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 4.
  • Hildegard Westerkamp

    Beneath the forest floor (excerpt)

    • Transformations.
    • empreintes DIGITALes.
    • 5.
  • Fay Hield

    Sweet William's Ghost

    • Wrackline.
    • Topic Records.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Tue 31 Oct 2023 23:00

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