Interlude

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886)

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886)

An interlude is a brief rest, a brief time of calming or reflection. Take a breath: a new year is just around the corner.

Real

Imaginary

Visual Arts

René Magritte, Intermission (1927/28)
Paul Klee, Tropical Twilight (1921)
Claude Monet, Twilight, Venice (1908)
Mikalojus Ciurlionas, Winter Motif (1907)
Vincent van Gogh, Landscape at Dusk (1885)
Vincent van Gogh, Village at Sunset (1884)
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper (1880)
Ivan Shishkin, Twilight. After Sunset (1874)
Konstantin Korovin, Winter Twilight
Maxime Maufra, Evening Twilight on the Seine
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Frederick Delius

Maurice Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales (Noble and Sentimental Waltzes) (1911)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, early and mid-life Divertimenti

Guy Ropartz, piano music:

Dans l’ombre de la montagne (1913)
Un Prélude Dominical et Six Pièces à danser pour chaque jour de la semaine (1928-29)
Choral varié (1904)
La Chanson de Marguerite (1886)
First-Love (1886)

Other works:

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49/1 (1798)
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49/2 (1798)
Larsson: 12 Concertinos, Op. 45
Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Organ works
Bax, Summer Music (1921, rev. 1932)
Bovet, Organ works
The light jazz music of Dave Brubeck
Satie, Trois gymnopédies [“The word gymnopédies was derived from a festival of ancient Sparta at which young men danced and competed against each other unencumbered by clothing, and the name was a (presumably) droll reference to Satie’s gentle, dreamy, and far-from-strenuous piano exercises. (Satie is known to have introduced himself as a gymnopédiste.)”]
Nick Peros, 24 Nocturnes for Solo Guitar
César Franck, Grand Trio pour violin, violincelle et piano in C minor, Op. 6, CFF 108 (1834)

Music: songs and other short pieces

Franz Schubert (composer), Winterlied (Winter Song), D. 401 (1816) (lyrics)