If you live in the UK it will not have escaped your notice that the weather is shifting away from summer and into autumn. That change has already taken place with marked effect in Scotland of course, but now London and the south (where Arcana is based!) are caught up in the wind and the rain.

Autumn does, of course, inspire a great deal of creativity as composers and songwriters respond to the season – and this rather charming early piece by Grieg is one such example, the concert overture In Autumn Op.11, published in 1865. Here it is conducted by Neeme Järvi: