The Summer Garden Mixtape
An hour of sublime music mixed with sounds from the natural world.
Be transported to a beautiful summer garden with an hour of sublime music, combined with familiar sounds from the natural world in a seamless, relaxing mix.
We鈥檝e paired Breakfast listeners鈥� recordings of birdsong, bells, water and wind in the trees with glorious music, starting with Delius鈥檚 wonderfully hazy In a Summer Garden and ending with Ravel鈥檚 The fairy garden. In between, there鈥檚 music by Chopin, Gurney, Schreker, Debussy, Liszt and Liadov.
Many thanks to the listeners who sent in their recordings of gardens and outdoor spaces 鈥� especially Rodney Harris, Kate Johnson, Michael Maxwell Steer, Vanessa McDonald, John Price and Masha Thorne, whose recordings are used here.
Music Played
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Frederick Delius
In a Summer Garden
Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
Blackbird song
Recorded by an anonymous listener
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Benjamin Grosvenor
Nocturne in F# major, Op. 15, No. 2
Sounds from a Wiltshire garden
Recorded by listener Michael Maxwell Steer
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Ivor Gurney
Down by the Salley Gardens
Performer: Kitty Whately. Performer: Joseph Middleton.Sounds from a Surrey Garden
Recorded by listener Kate Johnson
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Franz Schreker
Valse Lente
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.Songthrush song
Recorded by listener Rodney Harris
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Claude Debussy
Prelude 脿 l鈥檃pres-midi d鈥檜n faune
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.Sounds from the garden of a former watermill
Recorded by listener John Price
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Franz Liszt
Les Jeux d鈥檈au a la Villa d鈥橢ste
Performer: Zhang Zuo.Sound of swifts above a Somerset garden
Recorded by listener Vanessa McDonald
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Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake
Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.Sound of a nightingale in an Essex garden
Recorded by listener Masha Thorne
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Maurice Ravel
Le jardin f茅erique
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