Winter arrives at 5:23 p.m. EST.
Welcome, Yul!

So, what to listen to on a day like today, with gravity-defying snow squalls and raging winds? Here’s a baker’s dozen worth of suggestions, with audio links, posted alphabetically by composer.
Sir Edward Elgar – The Snow
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 1 “Nordic”
Icelandic Traditional – Edda: Baldur’s Dream, rendered by Sequentia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1qm–InMLQ
David Lang – The Little Match Girl Passion
Franz Liszt – Transcendental Etudes: Chasse-neige
Sergei Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky: Battle on the Ice
Henry Purcell – King Arthur: Song of the Cold Genius
Einojuhani Rautavaara – Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra):
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve
Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 2
Georgy Sviridov – The Snow Storm
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sinfonia Antarctica
Richard Wagner – Richard Wagner, Die Walküre: Act I, “Winterstürme”
You’ll be able to hear some of “Alexander Nevsky,” as written for the film (as opposed to Prokofiev’s concert arrangement), along with another work by Sviridov, “Time Forward,” on “Picture Perfect,” this Friday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Richard Strauss being catty about Schoenberg (snow-related).
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