Spooky Classics with the Sydney Symphony

On Friday the 13th, Sydney Town Hall becomes a musical house of horrors – and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra invites you inside...This concert dives into the most iconic and hair-raising orchestral works ever written.

Feel the swirling dread of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain _and recoil from the stabbing strings of _Psycho. The tension is palpable in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and John Williams’ Jaws, and it explodes in the ghoulish frenzy of Berlioz’s Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath.

The Sydney Town Hall Organ roars to terrifying life in Bach’s Toccata and Fugue – dark, dramatic and instantly recognisable. And Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice is musical mischief in motion, tiptoeing winds, glinting glockenspiel and sudden brass jolts.

Conducted by James Judd, praised by _The Independent _for his ‘inspired, passionate music-making’, this program delivers a spine-tingling set of short works with wicked twists.

Dare to join us, and let the music take over.

Program:

• MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain

• SAINT-SAËNS Danse Macabre

• HERMANN Psycho: Suite

• DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

• BACH Toccata & Fugue

• SIBELIUS Valse Triste

• PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets

• BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique: Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath

Artists:

• JAMES JUDD conductor