And I Think of Roses, Roses

White and red, in the wide six-hundred-foot greenhouses:

György Ligeti: Musica Ricercata, mvt. I (1953) for piano
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles (1953) for woodwind quintet
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in D Major, op. 94 (1944) for flute and piano
Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto (1931)
Benjamin Britten: Canadian Carnival (1939) for orchestra
William Bolcom: Symphony No. 4 (1986) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Okay, nothing here has to do with roses until the Theodore Roethke setting in the second part of the Bolcom symphony. Still, it's a nice Valentine's Day image, especially when unwound into a sprawling, imagistic portrayal of the American landscape. Also, a William Bolcom–Joan Morris collaboration seems also appropriate for Valentine's Day.

The Britten piece is a pretty neat picture-postcard kind of work that seems to fly under the radar. Earlier thoughts on the Stravinsky Violin Concerto are here.