PEACE & TRANQUILLITY
- The English Lakes
CHAPTER 1 - BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN & GRIEG
BEETHOVEN - Moonlight Sonata - Adagio sostenuto (5:14) - Jeno Jando (from Naxos 8.551121) -The twilight hours including ice formations by a stream; Carrock Fell & moon; windmills & moon; Derwentwater; Coledale Fells & moon; Ullswater evening; moon rise; moonlight near Elterwater; Newlands twilight & Rydal moonlight.
BEETHOVEN - Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor” - Adagio un poco. (8:00)- Stefan Uladar, Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth (from Naxos 8.550121 )
A beautiful calm and peaceful visit to the wonderful vale of Buttermere and Crummock Water.
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 - Larghetto (8:58) - Szekely, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Nemeth (from Naxos 8.551121)
A calm autumn early morning north end of Coniston Water followed by some canoeing, then views along the western shore of Coniston; a tarn on Torver Low Common; sailing boat near Brantwood with Canada Geese, jetty and wooded eastern shoreline; the Gondola steamer, and ending back at a peaceful north end of Coniston Water.
GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16 - Adagio (5:48)
Jeno Jando, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Andras Ligeti (from Naxos 8.550118) - Ullswater launch, followed by autumn woodland scenes around Aira Force and by Glencoyne Wood, Ullswater, ending with evening light on Brothers Water.
CHAPTER 2 - DELIUS & BRAHMS
DELIUS On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring (5:53)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (from Naxos 8.557143) - Buttermere & Red Pike; primrose; Spring woodland and flowers; Crummock Water with the Bluebells at Rannerdale; sheep at Langstrath with Butterwort flower, Cotton Grass, Langstrath Beck & Stake Beck; sheep and cattle near Stonethwaite and Eagle Crag.
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 - Adagio (8:54) Takako Nishizaki, Slovak Philharmonic (from Naxos 8.550195)
Stonethwaite in Borrowdale, Track leading to Dock Tarn/ Greenup Edge/ Eagle Crag; Dock Tarn; Pan of Langstrath and moorland to Dock Tarn; pond skaters; feather; frogspawn; View from Ullscarf of western fells; old fence post; Blea Tarn from High Saddle; upland pond; Tarns between Calf Crag and Steel Fell; sheep; bield; a snowy High Raise from Steel Fell; tarn; snowy Pavey Ark pan to Pike of Blisco from Steel Fell; Steel Fell summit to Thirlmere and Helvellyn; frozen tarn; snowy Helvellyn range with pan to Seat Sandal; and Helm Crag to Grasmere.
CHAPTER 3 - MASSENET, HANDEL & VIVALDI
MASSENET - Meditation from “Thais” (5:11)
Takako Nishizaki Violin, Jeno Jando Piano, (from Naxos 8.550306) - Magical calm early morning at Tarn Hows, followed by a visit to Tilberthwaite, Hodge Close Quarry, Cathedral Cave, Little Langdale and Slaters bridge.
HANDEL - Largo from Xerxes (3:39) - Jozef Cejka, Oboe/ Capella Istropolitana / Richard Edlinger (from Naxos 8.550014)
Grange in Borrowdale & Castle Crag from the bridge; woodland and River Derwent scenes in Wainwright’s favourite square mile; Rosthwaite and Borrowdale from the path to Castle Crag; views from quarry and summit of Castle Crag to Borrowdale, Derwentwater and Skiddaw.
VIVALDI - Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 - Largo (5:22)- Dagoberto Linhares, Camerata Cassovia (from Naxos 8.5504837) - The woodland walk along the shores of Derwentwater from Hawes End to Brandelhow Bay including “hands” sculpture, launches and views of Blencathra, ending with evening light by Derwentwater near Friars Crag.
CHAPTER 4 - MARCELLO & ALBINONI
A. MARCELLO - Oboe Concerto in D Minor - Adagio (4:15) - Jozsef Kiss / Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra (from Naxos 8.550556) - Blencathra fells from hoar frosted woods near Penrith; Carrock Fell and High Pike with views to Blencathra and “back o’ Skidda”; a walk up Bleaberry Fell with views to Blencathra, Borrowdale and the Helvellyn range.
ALBINONI - Oboe Concerto Op. 9, No. 8. - Adagio (2:18) - Anthony Camden, Julia Girdwood, The London Virtuosi, John Georgiadis ( from Naxos 8.550739) - Snowy Derwentwater & Skiddaw from Grange Crags; Borrowdale woodlands, Pan of Borrowdale from Dale Head & Rigghead quarries, to Rosthwaite, Johnny Wood, Ling Mell and Glaramara; Robin, and back to Cat Bells, Derwentwater & Skiddaw.
ALBINONI - Oboe Concerto in D Minor Op. 9, No. 2 - Adagio (5:19) - Anthony Camden / The London Virtuosi (from Naxos 8.550739) - Views from Orrest Head, of Windermere, with a visit to Troutbeck, and the pastoral views from Arnside Knott, of Silverdale, Arnside & Levens estuary.
ALBINONI - Adagio in G Minor (11:27)
Capella Istropolitana/Richard Edlinger (from Naxos 8.550014) - Bassenthwaite Lake mainly featuring the rich bird life, including the Heron but mostly the famous Ospreys, using extreme telephoto lenses
CHAPTER 5 - MAHLER
MAHLER - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (12:07) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) / Antoni Wit. (From Naxos 8.550528)
Sunrise and early morning mist over Derwentwater and Newlands Vale; swirling mist around a wintry Kirkstone Pass to High Street journey; Hayeswater; crocus; bluebells; pastoral fields over the Eden Valley; moth; sunset over Bassenthwaite Lake; sun; (ladybird); autumn woods; Ullswater and Hallin Fell; Aira Force; reeds; frog; Bassenthwaite Lake; Haweswater; trees; Thirlmere dam; launch on Derwentwater; ripples; Hallin Fell; Ullswater island; mist and early morning dew; hoar frost on trees; Cross Fell; Bleaberry Fell; Helvellyn summit; Carrock Fell; Ullswater snow; Castlerigg Stone Circle.
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