Monthly Playlist: July 2023

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.