SIBELIUS - SECOND SYMPHONY
(approx 42 mins)
"Lakeland at its dramatic best"
An autumnal peaceful Derwentwater and Borrowdale is used to start the first movement, featuring surprise view, Castle Head, Ashness, Millican Dalton's cave, and climbers on Shepherds Crag before moving on to Honister Pass with crags, quarries and views from Fleetwith Pike including tops covered in snow.
The movement ends after looking at Haystacks, Loweswater, and visits to Whiteside, Grasmoor and dramatic misty tops around Wandope and Grisedale Pike.
The second movement has an eery misty Thirlmere and St. John's in the Vale before moving to Ullswater, Angle Tarn, Haweswater and then Grasmere, Easedale Tarn, and Rydal Water. A hailstorm at Langdale is followed by various sculptures at Grisedale forest.
Movements 3 and 4 feature storm clad mountains, several dramatic waterfalls and floods, mists across Blencathra, Helvellyn and Thirlmere from High Rigg, up to Striding Edge, Swirral Edge, with a mountain rescue helicopter, and the north western fells.
A wintry Dock Tarn, Langstrath, Comb Gill, Causey Pike, Grisedale Pike and Whinlatter forest build up the drama which continues on the snowy ridge of Nab Scar, scenes of the Coniston fells, Scales Tarn and Sharp Edge on Blencathra, central gully Great End, Sty Head Tarn, with mists and an icy summit of Great Gable providing a fitting climax.