Start pouring the lemonade – this is your sign to slow down and savor the best of summer! Following the course of a perfect summer day, this classical playlist captures the season’s simplest and most blissful moments: an early riser’s view at daybreak, a leisurely afternoon in the sun, a picturesque evening on the water, and a night sky filled with stars.
- The Fisherman’s Song (Yi Chen)
- Daphnis And Chloe, Suite No. 2: Daybreak (Maurice Ravel)
- Dichterliebe, Op. 48: 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Robert Schumann)
- The Seasons, Op. 37a: VII. July. Song of the Reaper (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
- The Seasons: IV. Summer (Thea Musgrave)
- Dances in the Canebreaks (Arr. W.G. Still for Orchestra): No. 2, Tropical Noon (Florence Price)
- Letniy den (Summer Day), Op. 65bis: III. Waltz (Sergei Prokofiev)
- Crosswinds: 1. Blue Ridges, Dappled Sunlight, Mountain Waltz (Margaret Brouwer)
- 5 Songs of Sun and Shade: No. 1, You Lay So Still in the Sunshine (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
- Summer Song (Miguel del Águila)
- Kesailta (Summer evening), Op. 1 (Oskar Merikanto)
- Pres de la mer, Op. 52: No. 4. Allegro moderato (Anton Arensky)
- Summer Night on the River (Frederick Delius)
- Beau Soir, L. 6 (Claude Debussy)
- The Daisy-Chain: Stars (Liza Lehmann)
- Summerland (William Grant Still)
You can listen to these selections on our Days of Summer playlist on Spotify.