Grieg: Music for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt – ‘Morning Mood’. San Francisco Symphony/Herbert Blomstedt; Decca recording.
A new day dawns: music by Sibelius, Mussorgsky, Britten, Grieg and Debussy. Plus the Dawn Chorus.
Grieg: Music for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt – ‘Morning Mood’. San Francisco Symphony/Herbert Blomstedt; Decca recording.
Dear Colin,
A couple of other suggestions, if I may. Ravel Daphnis Lever du jour, preferably in Cantelli’s Philharmonia recording which is balanced with quite extraordinary finesse, and Simpson’s 3rd Symphony second movement which the composer describes as “the only piece of mine which has an origin in some external situation” …. to quote the (Horenstein/LSO) record sleeve ‘the situation is this: a sleeper awakes in the early morning, his mind passively receptive; the first bird-songs begin, gradually becoming the dawn chorus; the mind quietly absorbs and reflects until at last a tremendous sense of excitement is experienced’, “an energy that cannot be repressed”.
How about some oranges and lemons as BBC Radio used to open up to?
I love your compilations Col.
Please keep going.
Reiner is superb in La Mer and just about everything else.
Or Fritz Spiegl’s compilation of British melodies that opened up Radio 4 in the morning before the shipping forecast…