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Forests, Woods and Trees

To celebrate the UN's International Year of Forests, Jamie MacDougall plays music inspired by trees and talks to a violin maker who made a whole string quartet from one sycamore!

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Nov 2011 17:05

Music Played

  • Carl Orff

    O Fortuna

    Artist: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus

    • Carmina Burana.
  • James Lauder, Nicolas de La Grotte

    My Lord of Marche, Or Voy-Je Bien, The Trees They Do Grow High

    Artist: Concerto Caledonia, Jim Moray

    • Revenge of the Folksingers.
  • Franz Liszt

    Lilacs Op 21. No. 5

    Artist: Alessio Bax- piano

    • Rachmaninov Preludes and Melodies.
  • Alec Roth, Vikram Seth

    Shared Ground: Oak

    Artist: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore

    • Shared Ground.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Pastoral Symphony (2nd movement: Andante Molto)

    Artist: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan

    • Beethoven Karajan 1.
  • Tom Cunningham, Alexander McCall Smith

    On Whitened Sand the River Flows

    Artist: Mr McFall鈥檚 Chamber, Michael Bawtree

    • The Okavango Macbeth.
  • Anon

    Anon - The Mulberry Garden

    Artist: The Baltimore Consort

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Gurrelieder (finale)

    Artist: Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, Thomas Quasthoff- Speaker

    • Gurrelieder.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis and Chloe (opening)

    Artist: London Symphony Orchestra

    • Daphnis and Chloe.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    From Bohemia's Woods and Fields

    Artist: National Youth Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington

    • Ma Vlast.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Au loin, la-bas dans la vallee (Down Yonder in the Valley stands a Cherry Tree)

    Artist: Dawn Upshaw, Orchestre de l鈥橭pera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano

    • Songs of the Auvergne.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Pines of the Janiculum; The Pines of the Appian Way

    Artist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner

    • Pines of Rome.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Nov 2011 17:05