Music for Summer

[12tone.]

Over here in Vancouver, Canada, it's quite warm out today (around 27 C). 

Mainly the question is for outdoors...music for out on the lawn 

What are your favorite outdoor summer pieces?


I think any of Mozart's PT's or SQ's are wonderful   

[hornteacher]

Schubert's 5th and Dvorak's 8th

[hautbois]

Barber's Summer Music. Seriously.

Howard

[Bonehelm]

Mahler's 3rd. The first movement atleast.

[val]

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune

or

JANEQUIN: "A ce joly mois de Mai"

[Wanderer]

Get back inside, that's what air-conditioning is for. Then you can listen to whatever you like.

And just in case you won't, I'd suggest Händel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. 

[The new erato]

Barber's Summer Music. Seriously.

Howard

Popped into my head as well. Seriously.

And Knoxville - Summer of 1915 with that wonderful evocative text: "...It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches, rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street and the standing up into their sphere of possession of the trees, of birds' hung havens, hangars. People go by; things go by. A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt: a loud auto: a quiet auto: people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually, the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk, the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squaring with clowns in hueless amber. A streetcar raising its iron moan; stopping; belling and starting, ....."

etc. Simply wonderful.

[marvinbrown]

Over here in Vancouver, Canada, it's quite warm out today (around 27 C). 

Mainly the question is for outdoors...music for out on the lawn 

What are your favorite outdoor summer pieces?


I think any of Mozart's PT's or SQ's are wonderful   

  Vivaldi's Four Seasons especially SUMMER 

  marvin

[hornteacher]

Mahler's 3rd. The first movement atleast.

The whole symphony would take all summer. 

[Symphonien]

George Crumb - Makrokosmos III "Music for a Summer Evening"

Although it is approaching winter where I live.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

For a hot summer day?

Handel's Water Music!

[12tone.]

George Crumb - Makrokosmos III "Music for a Summer Evening"

Although it is approaching winter where I live.

Where do you live?

[BachQ]

Brahms, Serenade no. 1
Mozart, Quintet for Piano and Winds
Beethoven, Sixth Symphony
Dvorak, Eighth Symphony; Overture to Nature's Realm
Gershwin, Cuban Overture
RVW, Third Symphony