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Full playlist by Malcolm Porter

8 December 2004 next playlist >>

:: Track 1

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Swans Migrating (6 mins 26 secs)
Album: Aurora Borealis
Ondine ODE 937-2

:: Track 2

Corker / Conboy: Under a perfect sky (4 mins 59 secs)
Album: In the light of that learnt later
Vertical Form VFORM 023CD

:: Track 3

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite - Pavane (2 mins 09 secs) 
Album: Spirit of England
Nimbus Records NI 5210/13


BACKGROUND
For me, these three quite different pieces capture the atmosphere and mystery of mid-winter in the northern hemisphere - a time around the Winter Solstice when the Sun seems to have lost all of its strength, and we symapthise with the ancient fear that warm, bright days may never come again.
This is definitely music to listen to "under the covers", or in front of a roaring fire!
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