The Seasons, op. 37a
The Seasons, Op. 37a (also seen as Op. 37b; Russian: Времена года; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a suite of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia. The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral and other arrangements by other hands. Individual excerpts have always been popular – Troika (November) was a favourite encore of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Barcarolle (June) was enormously popular and appeared in numerous arrangements (including for orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet, harmonium, guitar and mandolin).
Movements
- January “At the Fireside”
- February “Carnaval”
- March “Song of the Lark”
- April “Snowdrop”
- May “Starlight Nights”
- June “Barcarolle”
- July “Song of the Reaper”
- August “Harvest Song”
- September “Hunting Song”
- October “Autumn Song”
- November “Troika”
- December “Christmas”