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!
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Carl Orff
O Fortuna
Artist: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus
- Carmina Burana.
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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.
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Franz Liszt
Lilacs Op 21. No. 5
Artist: Alessio Bax- piano
- Rachmaninov Preludes and Melodies.
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Alec Roth, Vikram Seth
Shared Ground: Oak
Artist: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
- Shared Ground.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Pastoral Symphony (2nd movement: Andante Molto)
Artist: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan
- Beethoven Karajan 1.
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Tom Cunningham, Alexander McCall Smith
On Whitened Sand the River Flows
Artist: Mr McFall’s Chamber, Michael Bawtree
- The Okavango Macbeth.
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Anon
Anon - The Mulberry Garden
Artist: The Baltimore Consort
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Arnold Schoenberg
Gurrelieder (finale)
Artist: Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, Thomas Quasthoff- Speaker
- Gurrelieder.
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Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe (opening)
Artist: London Symphony Orchestra
- Daphnis and Chloe.
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Bedrich Smetana
From Bohemia's Woods and Fields
Artist: National Youth Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington
- Ma Vlast.
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Joseph Canteloube
Au loin, la-bas dans la vallee (Down Yonder in the Valley stands a Cherry Tree)
Artist: Dawn Upshaw, Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano
- Songs of the Auvergne.
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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 201117:05BBC Radio Scotland
