The best music written about winter

IN C.S. LEWIS’S “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, Mr Tumnus, a faun, laments that the White Witch has made Narnia “always winter, but never Christmas”—implying that only Christmas makes winter bearable. But the season offers other pleasures: skiing, if you enjoy elaborate dressing rituals; snowshoeing, if walking is not slow and cumbersome enough; or, best of all, staying inside and admiring the gelid landscape through thick windows, with a cup of something steaming. Here’s what to listen to during the short, frosty days and long nights (and not a carol on the list).