What's the music that most evokes the heat to you?
Large swathes of Debussy's music have always seem to conjure up a heady, hazy kind of aura of heat for me, whether intended or not. He seems to capture the inherent reverie of a world bathed in warmth. Some obvious examples that spring to mind are Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Reflets dans l'eau from Book 1 of Images, but it's a sort of across the board/in the DNA sort of thing.
Summertime and the living is easy... not classical but an honest answer.
I was reminded of Frank Martin's "Les éléments", a work I only knew in an old Haitink/RCO performance.
This Swiss ensemble isn't bad at all! Go for "Le feu".
https://www.youtube.com/v/fi6w9SoEMoo
And also: Bernd alois Zimmermann: Symphony in one movement - sounds like a volcano.
https://youtu.be/oxiyVwJ92cg
and Akira Miyoshi: Concerto for orchestra - - 10 minutes of licking flames!
https://youtu.be/CUucxvYfXd0
It wouldn't occur to me to listen to music which has any reference to the weather I am experiencing. But I would associate heat with a piece like Honegger's Pastorale d'été, with it's languid themes, suggestive of heat making it too much of a bother to do anything vigorous.
Quote from: Spotted Horses on July 17, 2022, 09:18:37 PM
It wouldn't occur to me to listen to music which has any reference to the weather I am experiencing. But I would associate heat with a piece like Honegger's Pastorale d'été, with it's languid themes, suggestive of heat making it too much of a bother to do anything vigorous.
Good choice!
Frank Bridge 'Summer' and Delius 'In a Summer Garden'.
Quote from: vandermolen on July 17, 2022, 11:29:04 PM
Delius 'In a Summer Garden'.
Oh, that is just the most gorgeous piece - especially, for me, conducted by Handley on the old Classics for Pleasure disc. But this 40° heat that we - or at least you, our poor English neighbours - are expecting, is something else altogether, which is why my mind turned to the Act 3 Sinfonia from
L'Orfeo, with Orpheus standing at the gates of Hell. Something about the rasping sounds of cornetts and reeds on (unfortunately) Pickett's recording suggests really extreme heat.
Quote from: DaveF on July 18, 2022, 12:01:57 AM
Oh, that is just the most gorgeous piece - especially, for me, conducted by Handley on the old Classics for Pleasure disc. But this 40° heat that we - or at least you, our poor English neighbours - are expecting, is something else altogether, which is why my mind turned to the Act 3 Sinfonia from L'Orfeo, with Orpheus standing at the gates of Hell. Something about the rasping sounds of cornetts and reeds on (unfortunately) Pickett's recording suggests really extreme heat.
'In a Summer Garden' is my favourite work by Delius along with his Piano Concerto.
Oh dear... ;D I do not associate "heat" with gentle, bucolic or pastoral landscapes ...
I was even thinking of poor old Jeanne d'Arc at the stake or Don Giovanni being dragged into hell and other fiery horrors.
earlier, I tried here to sing the praises of Philippe Hersant's "Cantique des trois enfants dans la fournaise" (Canticle of the three children in the furnace?).
A lovely & sweet work for the same forces (and instruments) as used in M.A. Charpentier Messe à quatre choeurs...
https://youtu.be/-oiBhzKgphU
https://youtu.be/kL9WRv75qpM
and
Benjamin Brittens parable :The Burning Fiery Furnace
The obvious one is the first movement of Vivaldi's "Summer". I can hear the stifling humidity in every bar.
I think Samuel Barber captured the essence of the current heat wave weather we're experiencing here in his "Knoxville:Summer of 1915".
Quote from: Szykneij on July 19, 2022, 02:54:44 PM
I think Samuel Barber captured the essence of the current heat wave weather we're experiencing here in his "Knoxville:Summer of 1915".
Great choice!
To get away from the heat over here I'm tempted to play Sinfonia Antartica by Vaughan Williams.