SUNDAY SPECIAL
The song of the forests
Prepared and presented by Dan Bickel
Wagner, R. Forest murmurs, from Siegfried (1856-71; arr. Hutschenruyter). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.
Naxos 8.572767 [07:57]
Glazunov, A. Fantasy: The forest, op 19 (1887). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.
Melodiya SUCD 10-00156 [21:18]
Bax, A. The happy forest (1914-21). Ulster O/Bryden Thomson.
Chandos CHAN 8307 [10:14]
Vaughan Williams, R. In Windsor Forest (1931). Bournemouth Symphony Ch; Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar.
EMI CDC 7 497382 [17:33]
Ciurlionis, M. In the forest (1900). Slovak PO/Juozas Domarkas.
Marco Polo 8.223323 [15:23]
Shostakovich, D. The song of the forests, op 81 (1949). Mikhail Kotliarov, ten; Nikita Storojev, bass; Brighton Festival Ch; New London Children's Choir; Royal PO/Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Decca 436 762-2 [36:15]