Classical "Weather" Music

[TheGSMoeller]

Karl had just commended on a cover art reminding him of Britten, so it got me to start thinking about classical music that depicted weather in some manner. Found this list online...

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/stage/articles/2010/01/17/20100117seasons0117list.html

[springrite]

Henri Sauguet's Symphony--- "Les Saisons"

[TheGSMoeller]

Henri Sauguet's Symphony--- "Les Saisons"

Not familiar with it, I'll need to be though, thanks. 

[listener]

add: SPOHR: Symphony no. 9 op.143  "Die Jahreszeiten"
        BOISMORTIER: Les Saisons - cantata
        MILHAUD: Concertino de printemps (violin) op.135, Concertino d'automne (piano) op. 309, Concertino de été (viola)       op.311, Concertino d'hiver (trombone) op.327, 

[Ten thumbs]

I'm not sure that months really qualify as weather, as many of them individually are about other things, such as festivals. However, three cycles come to mind:

Fanny Hensel: Das Jahr
Tchaikovsly: the Seasons Op37b
Kirchner: Op.78 Les Mois de l'Année

Also the part songs by Hensel based on Goethe: March, April and May

Actually Das Jahr' April is full of sunshine and showers and there is a distant rumble of thunder in July.
May also figures in several of her songs:
Op.1.4 Maienlied
Op.9.5 Der Maiabend
Op.9.6 Die Mainacht

Spring is very popular:
Kjerulf: Op.28.5 Frühlingslied
Schumann: Op.39.12 Frühlingsnacht
Raff: Op.76 Ode de Printemps
Henselt: Op.15 Frühlingslied
Gounod: Matinée de Mai
Jadassohn: Op.75.4 Frühling
Jensen: Op2.1 Von Kommenden Frühling
Godard: Op.123.1 Matinée de Printemps
Godard: Op.149 Etudes Lelodique 2: Chanson de Mai
Schytte: Op3.4 Salut de Printemps
Arensky: Op36.19 Rêverie du Printemps
Bonis: Op.11 Gai Printemps

and songs:
Hensel: Op.7.3 Frühling
Lang: Op.6.3 Frühzeitiger Frühling

Summer isn't so popular:
Scherbachyev Op.25.2 Soir d'Eté

Autumn does a little better:
Rebikov: Op.8 Rêveries d'Automne
Rebikov: Op.29 Feuilles d'automne
Heller: Op.109 Feuilles d'automne
Lyapunov: Op.26 Chant d'Automne
Bonis Op.19 Pensée d'automne

and songs:
Hensel: Op.10.4 Im Herbst
Lang: Herbstgefühl
Lang: Op.12.5 Der Herbst

Finally some real weather:

Snow:
Schytte: Op.63.3 Bourrasque de Neige
Scherbachyev: Op.32 Premier Neige

Rain:
Bonis: Op.102 Il Pleut

Clouds:
Lang: Op.25.5 Die Wolken

Storms and Flood:
Kinkel: Op.18.6 Stürmisch Wandern
Kinkel: Op.19.6 Thurm und Flut

[Karl Henning]

Summer isn't so popular:
Scherbachyev Op.25.2 Soir d'Eté

Berlioz, Les nuits d'été, Op.7
Glinka, Souvenirs of a Summer Night in Madrid
Rimsky-Korsakov, Summer Night's Dream (Сон в летнюю ночь)
Mrs HHA Beach, Summer Dreams, Op.47
Delius, Summer Night on the River
Prokofiev, A Summer Night, Op.123 (suite from A Betrothal in a Monastery)
Barber, Summer Music

[listener]

Today's weather reminded me of a couple more of PROKOVIEV`:
Summer Day Suite op. 65b arranged from Music for Children
and Winter Bonfire, op. 122 (boys choir and orch.)
and probably mentioned  BARBER Summer Music op. 21 and WEBERN In Summerwind

[DieNacht]

Some more, lesser known pieces:

- Carl Nielsen: The Fog is Lifting, for flute & harp
- Vitezlav Novak: The Storm for vocal soloists shoir & orchestra (impressive beginning)
- Vitezlav Novak: Autumn Symphony (now on youtube)
- Felix Draeseke: Sturmgedanken for piano
- Langgaard: 15th Symphony, Sea Storm; 4th Symphony, Leaf fall
- Vaino Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter, Symphonic Poem
- Niels Rosing Schouw: Windshapes f.Ensemble
- Poul Schierbeck:"Southwest, Sweater & Shag Tobacco", piano cycle
- Paul Dessau: Meer der Stürme, Orchestral Music IV
- Joseph Marx: Herbst Sinfonie
- Alexander Moyzes: In Autumn, for Soprano & Orchestra
- Antonio Bibalo: Autumnale for piano etc.
- Bax: Winter Legends for piano & orchestra
- Koechlin: Course de Printemps, Symphonic Poem
- Roussel: 1st Symphony (describes the 4 seasons)
- Gösta Nystroem: The Arctic Ocean, symphnic poem (good)

[TheGSMoeller]

Great responses, thanks everyone!

[Wanderer]

Medtner: Sonata in E minor, op.25/2 "Night Wind"

[val]

Debussy:   Des pas sur la neige, Brouillards, The snow is dancing, Jardins sous la pluie.

Dufourt:  Les Hivers

Bussotti:   Snowstorm from Bergkristall

[North Star]

Mendelssohn: Hebrides overture, Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage
Alkan: 12 etudes in the minor keys - 1. Comme le vent ("Like the wind")
Janáček: In the Mists

[Wanderer]

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage

Also, by Beethoven!
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op.112

[The new erato]

Honegger's Pastorale D'Ete seems like a really obvious oversight.

[North Star]

Also, by Beethoven!
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op.112

Yes, I don't understand why I left it out, since I remembered both works at the same time. Oh well.

Chopin's 'Raindrop' prelude is on the list, though the name is not by Chopin, as is the case with the etudes (Winter Wind, Op.25, no. 11)

[AndanteCantabile]

Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67
Tchaikovsky: The Storm, Op. posth. 76
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (Does this count?)
Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Snowflakes, from The Nutcracker, Op. 71

[TheGSMoeller]

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Forgot I even had this in my collection, a good contemporary piece.

[Ten thumbs]

A couple of others that have come to mind:

Heller: Op.123 Feuilles volantes features leaves blown by the wind.

A children's piece but still relevant:
Kirchner: Op.39 N.4 Schlechtes Wetther (Bad weather)

[listener]

not "good music" perhaps, but a propos of the topic:
KNECHT: Die durch ein Donnerwetter unterbrochne Hintenwonne  (The Shepherd's Bliss interrupted by a Thunderstorm),
one of several 19th century pieces for organ designed to show off the resources of the instruments.   I think I have a couple of discs with organs displaying their orage stops and I'll try to find them.

[Ten thumbs]

Since I've just noted it, Heller's second overture, Op.126, includes a splendid storm.