Music and Nature
Episode m002br46, broadcast at Sunday 25th May 2025, 5:30pm, and Tuesday 13th May 2025, 7:00pm.
“As part of the BBC's Wellbeing Week, Radio 3 Unwind's Niall Breslin curates a mixtape on the theme of Music and Nature. In this edition, expect soaring birds, spring sounds, a calm sea in summer and snowdrops in the winter. Produced by Zerlina Vulliamy.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed: Spring 0 + Spring 1 (track 1-2, The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed)
- Performer Elena Urioste
- Conductor Max Richter
- Orchestra Chineke! Orchestra
- 3:09 – Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208) (track 2, The Best of The Academy)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Orchestrator Neville Marriner
- 7:41 – For the Beauty of the Earth
- Composer John Rutter
- Performer Wayne Marshall
- 10:11 – Birds Eye View (track 04, Wild Isles: Our Precious Isles (music from TV series soundtrack))
- Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra
- Conductor George Fenton
- 12:30 – The Blue Bird (track , Siren's Song)
- Choir The Sixteen
- Conductor Harry Christophers
- Composer Charles Villiers Stanford
- 16:03 – In Winter's House (track 101, Renewal)
- Orchestra United Strings of Europe
- Conductor Julian Azkoul
- Composer Joanna Marsh
- 20:35 – Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Grace Williams
- Conductor John Andrews
- 26:20 – The snowdrop, or summer-geck (Fragments from Hans Anderson) (track , Fragments from Hans Andersen & Studies)
- Performer Nicolas Namoradze
- Composer York Bowen