The Classical Companion Collection

Mountains, Rivers and the Sea

Climb mountains, explore rivers and feel the power of the sea with some of the most evocative classical music ever written.

All recordings are taken from our archive and performed by the BBC’s Orchestras and Radio 3’s New Generation Artists.

Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Songs, Op 3 (No 4, On the hills of Georgia)
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Viardot-Garcia: 12 Poems of Pushkin (No 2, Upon the hills of Georgia)
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Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
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Butterworth: Bredon Hill and other songs (i. Bredon Hill)
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Novák: In the Tatra mountains
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Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46
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Rivers

Strauss: The Blue Danube
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Handel: Water Music, Suite II
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Copland: Old American songs (Set 2 No 4. At the river)
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (extracts)
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The Sea

Matthews: A Vision of the Sea
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Lutyens: The English Seaside (incidental music)
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Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
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Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
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Debussy: La Mer
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Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op 37 (No. 1, Sea slumber song)
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Engel: Sea Shell
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Bridge: The Sea - suite for orchestra
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Vaughan WIlliams: A Sea Symphony
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Converse: Song of the Sea
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