Alec Baldwin hosts this journey of classical thrills and chills from the Philharmonic Archives. You'll travel from the sinister heights of Bald Mountain, through a Journey Into the Abyss compliments of composers such as Mussorgsky, Berlioz, Gounod and J.S. Bach. Listen on...if you dare!
Host: Alec Baldwin
Conductors: Arturo Toscanini (Bach); Alan Gilbert (Mussorgsky); Leonard Bernstein (Gounod, Liszt); Charles Dutoit (Berlioz); Lorin Maazel (closing theme)
Soloists: Paul Groves, tenor; Willard White, bass; Westminster Symphonic Choir; Charles Bressler, tenor; Chorale Art Society
E-mail us at radio@nyphil.org
MUSIC:
BACH (arr. H.J. WOOD): Toccata and Fugue in d-minor, BWV 565 (from NYP Special Editions)
MUSORGSKY (arr. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV): Night on Bald Mountain (from iTunes Pass)
GOUNOD: Ballet Music from Faust (Selections) ( from SMK 47600)
BERLIOZ: Ride to the Abyss & Pandemonium from The Damnation of Faust (from NYP 05-28)
LISZT: A Faust Symphony (from SMK-47570)
SAINT-SAENS: Danse Macabre (used in place of usual theme music) (from NYP 09-15)
