{"id":47972,"date":"2024-09-22T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b4e839f9-4432-4b32-9440-8cd9fe88bdca"},"modified":"2024-09-22T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T10:07:17","slug":"best-classical-music-inspired-by-autumn-from-vivaldi-to-tchaikovsky-nine-works-that-beautifully-capture-the-changing-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/best-classical-music-inspired-by-autumn-from-vivaldi-to-tchaikovsky-nine-works-that-beautifully-capture-the-changing-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Best classical music inspired by autumn: from Vivaldi to Tchaikovsky, nine works that beautifully capture the changing of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Sunday, 22 September 2024 at 09:41 AM<\/p>

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Autumn, with its golden leaves and misty mornings, is here. To keep you company as the nights draw in, we present some of the best classical music inspired by autumn in all its melancholy magic and colourful beauty.<\/strong><\/p>

Best classical music for autumn<\/h2>

Vivaldi: <\/em>‘Autumn’, from the The Four Seasons<\/em><\/em> (1723)<\/strong><\/h3>

What seasonal playlist could fail to include Vivaldi<\/strong><\/a>? From the Allegro<\/em>\u2019s post-harvest celebrations in ‘Autumn’, Vivaldi\u2019s programmatic music transports us to the somewhat less vibrant morning after, where slow moving suspensions come as close to a musical hangover as anything you\u2019ve ever heard. In the stately final Allegro<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, \u2018The Hunt\u2019, a virtuosic violin solo represents the hunter\u2019s fleeing quarry, which they eventually catch and kill. Not so fun for the quarry, but a jolly old time for all the hunters. <\/p>

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    Astor Piazzolla: ‘Autumn’, from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>

    From one Four Seasons<\/em> to another. Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla<\/a><\/strong> is perhaps best known for his reinvention of the tango form, and it’s heard at its best in The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, in which to Vivaldi’s Baroque<\/a><\/strong> masterpiece is given a vibrant tango makeover. Unlike Vivaldi\u2019s famous The Four Seasons<\/em>, Piazzolla\u2019s version reflects the urban atmosphere of Buenos Aires and the emotional intensity of the tango, rather than nature.<\/p>