Suitable heat wave listening

[gurnemanz]

I've just been playing Erik Satie's "Pièces froides". It occurred to me that others may have suggestions for musical antidotes to hot weather.

[Bryn]

RVW: Sinfonia Antartica
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus

[doversoul1]

I've just been playing Erik Satie's "Pièces froides". It occurred to me that others may have suggestions for musical antidotes to hot weather.

Vivaldi: Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297

[Flay]

Huh! Looking at my lawn it'll be Varèse: Déserts

[Lat-Literal]

Complimentary:

Almost everything by Delius
Moeran - Summer Valley
Ruggles - Sun-Treader - if you can cast aside his issues
Messager - Le Jour sous le Soleil Béni
Gershwin - Summertime
Cowell - Ancient Desert Drone

Antidotes:

Hanson - Symphony No 1 (Nordic)
Thompson - Frostiana - a bit punny but in places literal
Leifs - Geysir
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Maxwell Davies - Symphony No 8 (Antarctica)
Hovhaness - Hymn to Glacier Park

[Joseph K]

Generally quite cool music - nothing too hot or noisy, but otherwise summery e.g.

Pat Metheny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVSIexjSnE

Miles Davis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKt7DTKyJU

[Zucchini]

Sides of Morris men at the local pub

[Dave2002]

Maybe this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYjE9Gv3A4
or this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWW4R1ZBM

Cole Porter

Perhaps not an antidote to the heat, though.

[MrGongGong]

Just sitting in the shade at the back of Snape Maltings
listening to the wind in the reeds

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sinfonia Antartica cools me down, however hot the weather.

[vinteuil]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s

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[Bryn]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s

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Heh, heh. Takes me back nigh on half a century when, at a mutual friend's vodka party in Wimbledon, GB bent my ear regarding a new piece he was working on. I was thus well prepared for what I would hear a couple of years later at a Music Now concert at the South Bank. I still much prefer this original version to later ones, even that recorded in a disused French water tower. Ah the nostalgia of it all.

[LMcD]

Frosty The Snowman
In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
Die Winterreise

[teamsaint]

Iberia. Albeniz.

Always perfect in hot weather for me.

[Serial_Apologist]

The first movement of Honegger's Symphony No 4 (Deliciae Basiliensis) has, as I have mentioned previously, the most cooling orchestration I know of. Were it not for my insistance on hearing the whole work - the temperature of which heats up considerably in the bucolic final movement, unfortunately - I would go straight from that into "Gigues", from Debussy's orchestral "Images": a Frenchman's picture of an England shrouded in fog, probably sea fog, which he would have experienced on stays in Eastbourne.