Poster Anna Clyne
Anna Clyne's 'This Midnight Hour' is featured on this episode of 'Extra Eclectic.'
Christina Kernohan
Extra Eclectic

Modern sounds for Halloween

Extra Eclectic - Oct. 29, 2025

With Halloween approaching in just a couple days, the sounds veer toward the spooky on this episode of Extra Eclectic. Steve Seel plays us Michael Daugherty’s “The Tell Tale Harp” (Edgar Allen Poe reference very much indented) from his Philadelphia Stories, as well as Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour, and the eerie sound of the Latvian folk instrument known as the svilpaunieki appears in Jakabs Jancevskis’ Lignum. Listen now!

Playlist

Lysning (Glade)
Per Norgard
John Storgards, conductor
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Bis 2502

This Midnight Hour
Anna Clyne
Sakari Oramo, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Philadelphia Stories: Tell-Tale Harp
Michael Daugherty
Marin Alsop, conductor
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 559165

Closing
Philip Glass
Katia Labeque, piano
DG 4876947

Ghost
India Gailey
India Gailey, cello
Redshift 511

On Behalf of Nature: Memory Zone
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk Ensemble
ECM 2473

The Strange Highway
Gity Razaz
All-American Cello Band
Bis 2634

Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence: walking through heather and peat
Erland Cooper
Studio Collective
Daniel Pioro, violin
Mercury KX 6576069

In This Life
Sophia Subbayya Vastek
Sophia Subbayya Vastek, piano
SELF PROD 2022

Lignum
Jekabs Jancevskis
Kremerata Baltica
Alina Vizine, Zane Kalnina, Rakele Chijenaite, svilpaunieki
ECM 2745

Death Wish
Gemma Peacocke
Third Coast Percussion
Cedille 224

Ruins
Michael Jon Fink
Michael Jon Fink, celesta
Cold Blue 53

Cendres (Cinders)
Kaija Saariaho
Mikael Helasvuo, alto flute
Ondine 1189

North Sea Quartet
Daniel Elms
Daniel Elms, electric guitar
New Amsterdam 114

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