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Classics in the great outdoors

Jamie heads into the woods with music inspired by outdoor walks, remote landscapes and the shade of trees.

Jamie heads into the woods with music inspired by outdoor walks, remote landscapes and the shade of trees. Expect to hear Rossini, Linda Catlin Smith, Vaughan Williams and Errollyn Wallen amongst others as we travel from our back gardens to Antarctica, via the Canebrakes of the American South and the fresh air of the Alps.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Sep 2022 19:00

Music Played

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Seven Days Walking, Day 1: A Sense Of Symmetry

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Performer: Federico Mecozzi. Performer: Redi Hasa.
    • Seven Days Walking.
    • Universal.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Into The Woods (Prologue)

    • Into The Woods Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • RCA.
  • Rutland Boughton

    How beautiful they are (The Immortal Hour)

    Author: Fiona MacLeod. Choir: Geoffrey Mitchell Choir. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alan G. Melville.
    • Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour.
    • Hyperion.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Good Fairy (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • Wild Swans.
    • ABC.
    • 6.
  • Traditional Danish

    Vandring i skoven (Walking in the woods)

    Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Ensemble: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Director: Bo Holten.
    • 脜rstiderne - 28 Danish Songs.
    • OUR RECORDINGS.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Music Arranger: Andreas Tarkmann. Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia.
    • New Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O viridissima Virga, Ave

    Ensemble: Sequentia. Director: Barbara Thornton.
    • Canticles of Ecstasy.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 011.
  • B.J. Thomas

    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 304.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major, Op 28 No 15, 'Raindrop'

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • The World of The Piano: Ashkenazy, Schiff, Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sinfonia & Del di la messaggiera (La Donna Del Lago)

    Conductor: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Rossini: La donna del lago.
    • Sony.
  • Linda Catlin Smith

    Nuages

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nuages (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Tranquility #2.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Three Ships: III Always Sky; IV Some Trouble; V My Daddy is a Sailor

    Performer: Tom Kerstens.
    • Black Venus - New Music for Guitar.
    • BGS Records.
    • 4-6.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (No 10, 'The Little Owl has not Flown')

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 12.
  • Debbie Wiseman

    Cedar of Lebanon

    Orchestra: The National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Debbie Wiseman.
    • The Glorious Garden: In Poetry And Music.
    • Umiversal.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Blizzard (Scott of the Antarctic)

    Ensemble: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music Of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 10.
  • John Luther Adams

    Become Ocean

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Become Ocean.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.
  • Vangelis

    Chariots of Fire

    Orchestra: The Starlight Orchestra.
    • Cinema Graffiti: Great Film Themes Of The '80s.
    • Ariola Express.
  • Mauro Giuliani

    Andante in C

    Performer: Steve Hackett. Music Arranger: Steve Hackett.
    • Bay Of Kings.
    • Camino.
    • 14.
  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Asa: Piano Music by Composers of African Descent (Volume 2).
    • MSR CLASSICS.
    • 17.
  • Aaron Copland

    An Outdoor overture (Saga of the prairies)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Copland: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphonies.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

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