Halloween witches, wizards, goblins and ghouls
All sorts of creatures and magical figures populate the dark forests of the Romantic mind, and this playlist explores the way in which some of them have made it into music. From fairies to hellish furies inspired by Greek myth, Shakespearean witches to wizards, trolls, devils, demons, ghostly apparitions and other enchantments and spells, we take you through a selection of pieces in which imagination runs wild, and which harness the power of music to tap deep into the world of dreams and fantasy.