I’m not here to shit all over Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” but I do believe that the Venn Diagram between people who consider the composer’s “Autumn” to be the epitome of fall-inspired classical music and people whose image of autumn stops at Pumpkin Spice Lattes and rewatches of “Hocus Pocus” is a circle.
On the eve of this year’s Autumn Equinox, this playlist serves as a reprieve from decorative gourd season and instead gets to the sonic heart of the time of year: rough-hewn, windswept, with more than a little folk influence.
An Autumn Equinox Playlist
Classical and classically-inspired music for fall—that isn’t by Vivaldi
