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Title: Winter
Post by: guest377 on January 15, 2015, 11:23:21 pm
Classical podcasts have been show casing "Winter" themes this month....  anyone have any favorite Winter pieces?


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Gauk on January 16, 2015, 09:08:20 am
I really don't want to be reminded ... it's cold!


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: regriba on January 17, 2015, 02:16:58 pm
A few suggestions off the hip:

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 1 "Winter Daydreams"
Prokofiev: "Troika" from "Lieutenant Kijé"
Larsson: A Winter's Tale

I don't know if it counts (I suppose it's winter all year round in the Antarctic) but my favourite evocation of a frozen scene is the "Landscape" movement from Vaughan Williams'  Sinfonia Antartica


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Jolly Roger on February 08, 2015, 11:34:26 pm
A few suggestions off the hip:

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 1 "Winter Daydreams"
Prokofiev: "Troika" from "Lieutenant Kijé"
Larsson: A Winter's Tale

I don't know if it counts (I suppose it's winter all year round in the Antarctic) but my favourite evocation of a frozen scene is the "Landscape" movement from Vaughan Williams'  Sinfonia Antartica
These are perfect selections!!I would add Tapiola (brrrr) and En Saga and by Sibelius


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: guest224 on February 09, 2015, 10:06:44 am
Sviridov's Snow Storm


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: oldfezzi on February 09, 2015, 03:31:13 pm
Here are some:

Winter Night by Delius
Winter Games for piano & orchestra by David Foster
Symphony #11 Winter - Raff
Winter Bonfire by Prokofiev
Symphony #4 - Winter & Spring Rhapsody - Sinding
Midwinter - Swedish Rhapsody by Stenhammar
Overture:  A Winter's Tale by Karl Goldmark
Tale of a winter's evening overture by Josef Suk
A Winter Idyll by Holst

For starters.....

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Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Jolly Roger on February 11, 2015, 06:53:27 am
Probably off the subject a bit, but one of the most chilling pieces is Gösta Nystroem's Arctic Ocean (Ishavet or La mer arctique), symphonic poem after an unfinished ballet


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: oldfezzi on February 12, 2015, 06:39:26 am
Well, Sir Arnold's November Woods is about as close to winter as you can get without putting on your long johns.....

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