Julien Chauvin's Top Five: Music Inspired by the Seasons
The theme of the seasons has always inspired composers from all over the world, at all times, and it is naturally an inexhaustible source. The need to musically transcribe the ‘moods’ of weather, winds, temperatures, living forms (animals, insects, humans...) has always been a constant among composers… In their own way, and for all possible musical forms (solo instrument, orchestra, oratorio, etc.) the musical text "evokes" and inspires a nostalgic longing for the way nature used to be and delights us with so much creativity...