Music for Spring.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

The Blackbirds started singing about 2 weeks ago here: Spring is coming!

What are your specific recommendations for welcoming the spring, I mean what kind of music would reflect this? Music with wind instruments, flutes,... birds whistle, positive Karma, light on the digestive tract,,, you get the idea...

Writing that, I'm listening to Nielsen:

From ''Moderen'' - Tågen letter, for flute and harp
From ''Moderen'' - Børnene leger, for flute solo
From ''Moderen'' - Tro og Håb spiller, for flute and Viola

Autumn and Winter: No problem at all. I know a lot of classical - But in this case I have only very few ideas.

[karlhenning]

Well, I've just listened to two different recordings of Le sacre du printemps.

[sTisTi]

Well, I've just listened to two different recordings of Le sacre du printemps.

Just listening to this piece is not enough to really welcome spring. The human sacrifice part is mandatory 

[karlhenning]

We shall place your concerns before the proper authorities.

[DavidRoss]

Just listening to this piece is not enough to really welcome spring. The human sacrifice part is mandatory 

Have you anyone in particular in mind?

[ChamberNut]

Have you anyone in particular in mind?

Any racist, bigoted male-shovinistic jerk!  Don't think there is anyone that fits this description here though.  0:)

[Brian]

Beethoven's Sixth!

[The new erato]

Nielsens Springtime in Funen and Brittens Spring symphony are both wondeful pieces!

[karlhenning]

Nielsens Springtime in Funen and Brittens Spring symphony are both wondeful pieces!

Excellent suggestions!

[hornteacher]

Schumann's First Symphony.

[sul G]

Britten's Spring Symphony would seem mandatory.

[some guy]

"Happy Birthday" is what I usually hear to usher in Spring.

Oh, wait, that's just because the 21st is my birthday. Right. (Never mind.)

So Joys of Spring it is, then. (By Mr. Bronius Kutavičius.)

[Anne]

Brian took the words right out of my mouth when he said Beethoven's 6th Symphony.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Thanks for your Input so far...
Yes MN Dave, this is Karlhennings spring welcome Yes, Beethoven 6 is alright ... I was thinking of more lightweight stuff..

Edit: I've got one: Wilhelm Peterson Berger: Frösöblomster Suite
found more searching for "spring" through my library: Alexander Glazunov: Spring op. 24, "Spring" on "The Seasons" op. 67

[Wanderer]

Two Medtner suggestions:

The Second Violin Sonata (especially in Mordkovitch/Tozer's impassioned reading) and the Primavera op.39 no.3 (part of the second set of Forgotten Melodies).

For the former, here's an excerpt from Paul Stewart's excellent notes for the Naxos recording of Medtner's violin sonatas:

"Medtner's "Spring Sonata", his Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, also dates from those peripatetic years. As with the second Canzona, its inspiration was triggered by homesickness, particularly for the memories of springtime in Russia. Symbolic of rebirth and the affirmation of God in nature, spring was especially significant to Medtner. A quotation from Fyodor Tyutchev's poem Vesennye vody (Spring Waters), also the text of a famous song by Rachmaninov, adumbrates the Finale's main theme in the printed score.

The Second Sonata is conceived as a gigantic structure lasting over forty minutes. An imposing Introduzione immediately announces a "motto" motif, in a characteristic dotted rhythm, which will unify the entire sonata. The first movement fairly bursts with impassioned melody, exhaustively developed and crowned with a magnificent Coda, its many themes deconstructed over the course of a long diminuendo. A brief Cadenza, featuring the "motto" in the piano and some virtuoso writing for the violin, serves as a prelude to six variations whose plaintive theme is redolent of Russian Orthodox liturgical music. Cast in the Aeolian mode common to a dumka or lament, each variation becomes increasingly more folkloric, both instruments imitating the strumming of a balalaika in the final measures. Another short Cadenza (this time spotlighting the piano) launches the folkloric Finale. In rondo form, the rhythm of its main theme corresponds exactly to Tyutchev's words, "Viesna idyot!" ("Spring comes!"). Subsidiary material consists of a voluptuous episode in B major, and a quasi-polonaise in C major/minor (a small, deliberate plagiarism from Liszt's Mephisto Waltz underlines the demonic side of this section). The former episode, returning quietly and most effectively in the pianist's left hand, gathers intensity until an overwhelming climax is reached. The Coda gleefully exploits every Medtnerian trick in the book, juxtaposing themes from all three movements with triumphant final statements of the "motto". Spring has indeed come!"

[Diletante]

What the heck are you all talking about? Autumn is coming! 

[Novi]

What the heck are you all talking about? Autumn is coming! 

LOL, you upside-down people .

[Sergeant Rock]

Johann Strauss, Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring). Kathleen Battle and the Vienna Phil can't be beat:



Sarge

[gomro]

The Blackbirds started singing about 2 weeks ago here: Spring is coming!

What are your specific recommendations for welcoming the spring, I mean what kind of music would reflect this? Music with wind instruments, flutes,... birds whistle, positive Karma, light on the digestive tract,,, you get the idea...

Writing that, I'm listening to Nielsen:
Autumn and Winter: No problem at all. I know a lot of classical - But in this case I have only very few ideas.

I've done these Springy musics in the last couple of days:


EWAZEN - Ballade for clarinet, harp and strings
HONEGGER - Pastorale d'ete
MASLANKA - 11:11
YOSHIMATSU - Prelude to the Celebration of Birds

They just struck me as springish. Springulose. Springulated.

[EigenUser]

Anyone have good suggestions for Spring music? (Whether it was intended by the composer or just something that reminds you, personally, of spring.)

Haydn 'Spring' from The Seasons
Mahler Symphony No. 1
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Tippett Piano Concerto -- the first movement sounds very pastoral, but energetic.
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques -- sounds like my backyard, pretty much. Very lively and cheerful, too.