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Live from Slimbridge Wetland Centre

Tom McKinney starts your day with the very best classical music and the sounds of the Severn Estuary live from a bird hide at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre.

Tom McKinney starts your day with the very best classical music and the sounds of the Severn Estuary with a live dawn chorus from a bird hide at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre. He takes to the water to explore the wetlands by canoe, meets local naturalists who bring the area to life. Special musical guests are Miranda Rutter and members of the traditional music group Leveret playing music from Miranda's latest album Bird Tunes.
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Mon 18 Aug 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Conversations of Beauty and the Beast (Mother Goose)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 106.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Act II: 10 "Scene, and V. Pas d'action)

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B major, Op 34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Cantata No 2)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.

  • Traditional Scottish

    The Bonny Moorhen

    Singer: Mhairi Lawson.
    • Rebellion!.
    • Cavalier Classics.
    • 10.

  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Sony.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Romance Op.36

    Performer: Radovan Vlatkovi膰. Ensemble: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • EMI.

  • Marianna Martines

    Symphony in C Major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • CPO.
    • 203.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in E flat major, Op. 119 No. 4

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79, 3 Intermezzos, Op. 1.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Eric Coates

    By the sleepy lagoon

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in F major HWV.348 (Air)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major K.207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Overtures and Preludes: Muti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Herbert Howells

    String Quartet No 3, 'In Gloucestershire' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Howells: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • DHM.

  • Kod谩ly Zolt谩n

    Hary Janos - suite Op.35a (The Viennese Clock)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Kod谩lyL H谩ry J谩nos Suite, etc..
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans.
    • ABC.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for 2 violins RV.522 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Ensemble: Kammerorchester Basel. Performer: Emanuele Forni. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
    • Daniel Hope: My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Miranda Rutter

    Blackbird schottische

    Performer: Miranda Rutter. Performer: Sam Sweeney. Performer: Rob Harbron.

  • Miranda Rutter

    Sandpipers鈥� march

    Performer: Miranda Rutter. Performer: Sam Sweeney. Performer: Rob Harbron.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Locus iste

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Karl Jenkins: Motets.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending: Nolan, LPO, Handley.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Scene with Cranes (Kuolema)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle Conducts Sibelius.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Silent Woods

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • RCA.

  • Miranda Rutter

    Warblers鈥� rant

    Performer: Miranda Rutter. Performer: Sam Sweeney. Performer: Rob Harbron.

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Aug 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3