If you’re in NYC right now, you’ll surely relate to this month’s playlist…we’ve been experiencing extreme humidity, unpredictable rain and thunderstorms in the recent weeks. In fact, it just started raining as I write! Hoping this playlist will keep you company.
1.Brahms // Regenlied
“Cascade, rain, cascade down,
Wake in me those old songs
That we sang in the doorway
When outside the drops resounded!”
2. Tan Dun // Sunrain from 8 Memories in Watercolor
Celebration of the Water Splashing Festival in Hunan, where the buckets of water represent rain and one hopes for the sun.
3. Britten // Canticle III, “Still falls the Rain”
“Still falls the Rain
With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat
In the Potter's Field, and the sound of the impious feet”
4. Vivaldi // Winter from The Four Seasons
“To spend happy and quiet days near the fire,
While, outside, the rain soaks hundreds.”
5. Strauss // from Alpensymphonie
A trek through the Alpine mountains, besieged by a violent storm on the climb back down.
6. Anna Clyne // Lavender Rain
“On the anniversary of my mother's death”
7. Debussy // Jardin sous la pluie from Estampes
Raindrops and raging thunderstorms in Normandy- “we will no longer go to the woods because the weather is unbearable”.
8. Chopin // “Raindrop” Prelude Op.28 No.15
On a stormy day in Mallorca, during his romantic getaway with George Sand.