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Sunrise Sound Walk: The Wash

In the depths of winter, Horatio Clare welcomes a Lincolnshire dawn across The Wash.

In the cold depths of the year, Horatio Clare watches night retreat and day break at Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire. As the sun rises in the east across the mingling of land and sea on the northern most tip of The Wash - that great bite out of the east coast of Britain - the stark, remote, unspoilt beauty of the mudflats and saltmarsh is brought to life. From the glimmer of first light to the great golden flare of the risen sun, this moment of serene natural drama reveals the vast skies and shimmering waters of one of the UK鈥檚 great wildernesses.

The second of two programmes walking the North Sea coast. As the rising winter sun brings warmth and light to the coast in the middle of winter, Horatio takes delight in the minute detail of the plants, the wildlife, the sounds and wide East Coast vistas he experiences on the walks. Suffused with music reflecting the feel and mood of the coastline, he captures the ever changing light and shifting seas and sands of these liminal places.

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Boxing Day 2020 15:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • ERATO.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne No.4

    Performer: Sarah Rothenberg.
    • ECM.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Fratres

    Ensemble: Chilingirian Quartet.
    • Erato.

  • Georg H贸lm

    贵濒箩贸迟补惫铆办

    Composer: J贸n 镁贸r Birgisson. Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson. Composer: Orri P谩ll D媒rason. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Sancho Panza Records.

  • John Cage

    In a landscape

    Performer: Sarah Rothenberg.
    • ECM.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Minim

    Composer: Dustin O鈥橦alloran. Performer: Elissa Lee. Performer: Anna M眉ller.
    • Masterworks.

  • John Taverner

    O Wilhelme, pastor bone

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Gershwin, Ravel: Piano Concertos: Grimaud, Zinman.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • English Rhapsody: Butterworth; Delius; Grainger.
    • Halle.
    • 7-11.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan williams: Symphonies nos. 4 & 5: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra, Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Boxing Day 2020 15:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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