
Product Description
Turn out the lights – and bring out the GOTH — with this chilling, intense and totally hypnotic collection taking you deep into the darker realms of the classical world. These masterpieces of the macabre include such brooding classics as Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath by Berlioz (from “Symphonie fantastique”); Verdi’s haunting choral; Requiem (“Dies irae”) ; Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor ; (heard in an electrifying, hair-raising arrangement for choir, piano and orchestra); Bach’s complete ; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ; (in a spine-tingling, explosive performance on pipe organ) among many other Classical Goth thrillers!
1. Prelude in E-Flat Minor
(Dmitri Shostakovich)
National Philharmonic Orchestra
2. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
(J.S. Bach)
Virgil Fox, Royal Albert Hall Organ
3. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
(Arranged for Piano, Orchestra and Chorus)
(Sergei Rachmaninov)
John Wingell, Piano; London Promenade Orchestra
4. Messa da Requiem: II. Dies irae: 1. Dies irae (Giuseppe Verdi)
Slovak Philharmonic Choir; Ján Rozehnal, Choirmaster; Slovak Radio New Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
(from Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14)
(Hector Berlioz)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
6. Night Music (for Large Orchestra)
(André Laporte)
BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels
7. Transit (for 48 Strings)
(André Laporte)
BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels
8. Te Deum
(José Peris)
Rodrigo Orrego, Tenor; Prague Chamber Choir;
Virtuosi di Praga
CD Total Timing: 72 minutes
Classical Goth