No longer winter, not quite summer, still a bit unsettled, but drinks on the deck are getting more comfortable ... so what do you play to best evoke the essence of spring. Here are some of the best spring-related songs going around for your relaxed spring listening.
Nina Simone - It Might as Well be Spring
Benny Goodman - Swingtime in the Rockies
Flaming Lips - Can't Stop the Spring
Go Betweens - Spring Rain
Gary Shearston - The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing
Don McGlashan + David Guerin - Rain
Gustav Mahler - The Drunkard in Spring
Stravinsky - Rites of Spring
Ed Kuepper - Electrical Storm
John Butler Trio - Spring to Come
Hello Sailor - Fugitive for Love
Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now
Vivaldi - 'Spring'
Donovan - Lullaby of Spring
Roger Eno + Brian Eno - Spring Frost
Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach
Belle + Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Lou Reed - Crazy Feeling
Antenna - Come on Spring
Magnet - Maypole
Richard Wagner - "Winter Storms Have Vanished" (Siegmund's Spring Song)
Richard Wagner - "You Are the Spring" (Sieglinde's Spring Song)
Duke Ellington + Coleman Hawkins - Limbo Jazz
Lester Young + Oscar Peterson - Sunny Side of the Street
Graham Parker - Watch the Moon Come Down
Thin Lizzy - Little Girl in Bloom
Wire - Playing Harp for the Fishes
Don McGlashan - John Bryce
Uri Caine Ensemble - Song of the Earth: Drunkard in Spring
Estelle Perrault - You Must Believe in Spring
Benny Goodman Sextet - Gone with What Wind
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Richard Strauss - 'Frühling'
Greig - 'Morning Mood' (Peer Gynt Suite)
Schubert - 'Fruhlingstraum' (Winterreise)
Schubert - 'Im Frühling'
Sibelius - 'Kevankay' (Spring Version)
Joseph Suk - Spring Idyll
Debussy - 'Rondes des Printemps'
Bjarte Engeset - 'Rustle of Spring'
Beethoven - Sonata #5 for Piano + Violin
Greig - 'Last Spring'
Tchaikovsky - April: Lily of the Valley
Red Garland Trio - Spring Will Be a Little Late this Year
Wynton Marsalis - April in Paris
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Strange Meadow Lark
Massimo Farao Trio - Spring Will Be a Little Late this Year
Duke Ellington + John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood
Nina Simone - Another Spring
What would you add to the playlist (which will, I expect, be changing over the day) ?
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