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In the final part of Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings, he features music inspired by rivers, including Wagner, Delius, Smetana and Joni Mitchell.

In the last of Mark's rambles through the natural world, he dives into music inspired by rivers. We begin in Russia, with Modest Mussorgsky's Dawn on the Moscow River. Richard Wagner then takes us on a Rhine journey, and we drift along with Alison Krauss, Delius and Joni Mitchell, before flowing into the Vltava with Smetana's famous symphonic poem.

Presenter: Mark Radcliffe
Producers: Elizabeth Foster & Ben Collingwood

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Sun 14 Jun 202615:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Dawn on the Moscow River

    Orchestra: Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Richard Wagner

    Götterdämmerung: Rhine Journey

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Sony.

  • Trad.

    Down to the River to Pray

    Singer: Alison Krauss.
    • A Hundred Miles Or More – A Collection.
    • ROUNDER.
    • 6.

  • Nick Drake

    River Man

    • Five Leaves Left.
    • Island Records.
    • 2.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Night on the River

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.

  • Joni Mitchell

    The River

    • Rhino.

  • Ferde Grofé

    Mississippi Suite

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Felix Slatkin.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Ma vlast [My country] - cycle of symphonic poems, Vltava [Moldau]

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Jun 202615:00
    BBC Radio 3

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