Winter music

[Benny]

Your suggestions of winter music....

[Bogey]

On a bitter cold steely day:

Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

[springrite]

I like listening to Sibelius on snowy days. Winter Legends by Bax is another favorite.

[Brian]

Tchaikovsky's First Symphony - "Winter Daydreams"

Cute subtitle aside, it really is appropriate. 

[not edward]

Tapiola is always what springs to mind first for me.

[orbital]

Sviridov's Snow Storm has been my staple winter music for two years now. It has an aching beauty (not the Romance alone, but the whole work) that somehow just clicks to a winter storm.

[val]

Schubert: Winterreise.

Dufourt: Les Hivers.

Poulenc:  Un Soir de neige.

Sibelius: Tapiola.

[canninator]

Bax-November Woods

[springrite]

Bax-November Woods

This is a work I always listen to in late autumn -- October, usually in my part of the world.

[Norbeone]

Tchaikovsky's First Symphony - "Winter Daydreams"

Cute subtitle aside, it really is appropriate. 

Seconded.

[anasazi]

Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" cantata or "Lieutenant Kije" suite work for me.  Many others too.  Probably more Russian composers than not.

[ChamberNut]

Sibelius - Symphony No. 1

When I heard it in concert last November, there is a theme in the first movement I believe, where it sounds like a cold wind gently howling through (string effect). 

[MN Dave]

When I think winter, I think Sibelius.

[gmstudio]

When I think winter, I think Sibelius.

Ditto.

[Marcel]

Sibelius: Symphony no. 6

[Grazioso]

Outside of the obvious candidates, Kokkonen's 4th symphony is suitably gray and bleak.

[gomro]

Your suggestions of winter music....

Feldman's Three Voices, not least because of the fragmented lyric: "Snow falls...snow falls..."  But the strange harmonies and rhythms work very well watching the snow fall outside, lyric or no.

Wuorinen set Dylan Thomas' Winter's Tale to music, but I've never been in love with the results. On the other hand, his String Trio works for me as winter music.

For some reason, I associate Xenakis' Pleiades with winter. Maybe I first heard it during that season, I know not.

Stockhausen's Oktophonie and Subotnick's Four Butterflies make good electronic winter music, as well as Winter from W. Carlos' Sonic Seasonings disc.

[Kullervo]

Nørgård's Winter Hymn and Frostsalme — both choral works built around the same (very beautiful) melody.

[springrite]

Wuorinen set Dylan Thomas' Winter's Tale to music, but I've never been in love with the results.

I do like the result!

[gomro]

I do like the result!

As much as I like most of Wuorinen (I just got the new Naxos release of the Dante Trilogy) Winter's Tale just never did work for me. Still, to each his own...