Letter V Classical Radio this week

Spook-prep for the day before Halloween, including the rarely heard, extra hair-raising choral version of Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.” 

Oct. 30
noon-2 p.m. EDT
1600-1800 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Zelenka: Trio Sonata No. 4 in G minor
Heinz Holliger & Maurice Bourgue, oboes; Klaus Thunemann, bassoon; Klaus Stoll, double-bass; Christiane Jaccottet, harpsichord (ECM)

Mussorgsky: “St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain”
Anatoli Kotcherga, bass-baritone
Berlin Radio Choir; South Tyrol Children’s Choir
Berlin Philharmonic/
Claudio Abbado
(Sony Classical)

Schubert: “Erlkönig”
(orchestration by Max Reger)
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon)

Liszt: “Totentanz”
Jorge Bolet, piano
London Symphony Orchestra/Iván Fischer (Deutsche Grammophon)

J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
George Ritchie, organ (Raven)

Past Masters:
Tartini: Sonata in G minor (“The Devil’s Trill”)
David Oistrakh, violin; Vladimir Yampolsky, piano (EMI Classics)
(recorded 1956)

Dukas: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc)

Boccherini: Sinfonia in D minor, Op. 12, No. 4 (“La casa del diavolo”)
Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Naïve)