Next year: Hallowe'en: a concert - ideas for programme?

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Vaguely floating an event idea. It needs to be chamber or more minimal, even, from a performer pov.

So far I have thought, and have someone probably to sing, some of Britten's spookier Serenades ("This Ae Night" being my big favourite.)

What else might you suggest?

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What forces are you using? Instrumental? Vocal? What have you got?

Obvious thought being Danse Macabre in violin/piano arrangement, The Devils' Trill sonata (Tartini) , Graceful Ghost (rag for piano and vln by William Bolcom), Schubert : The Erl King, Opening Act 2 Ruddigore for male chorus... can think further ...

Beethoven Piano Trio "Ghost", something from Turn of the Screw, Warlock "The Curlew", Ravel Pavane, Moonlight Sonata? Have you got a good pianist - quite a lot of Liszt would work and probably also Chopin.

Plus La Cathedral Engloutie...

Katisha, you're a star.
I haven't got anything/anyone myself (I'd not be doing anything other than proposing & logisticing & applauding); but I have an open-minded venue that wants to Do Stuff, and some contacts particularly around the piano/singing side.

I suppose then in the end it would depend on the performers and what they have in their repertoire/would be prepared to do? Telling the pianist to do a Mephisto Waltz could be a tall order unless they are brilliant. Also how you want to pitch in in terms of how serious/larky it is.

Hi Bink - saw this the other day but didn't have time to reply.

There are loads of witches, sorcerers etc in baroque opera - could do arias from Handel's Alcina and Rinaldo perhaps, and from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Monteverdi's Orfeo also has some spooky underworld stuff, and there is Gluck's Orfeo and Euridice too.

Purcell's Music for a While might be good - although it doesn't appear particularly spooky, it is from a necromancy scene in Dryden's Oedipus where it is sung to enchant the furies so that they will release the murdered King Laius from the dead for long enough for him to reveal the identity of his murderer. Could do the Britten arrangement to tie in with the Serenades.