Aromatherapy 8 - Country Classics

Aromatherapy, the quiet moments of classical music. And the seventh volume is a collection of music inspired by the countryside. This album takes a tour of many and varied landscapes beginning with the English countryside as seen through the eyes of Vaughan Williams, coupled with the Vienna Woods, in Johann Strauss II’s popular waltz, France’s Auvergne district for Canteloube’s ‘Baïlero’, America for music by Edward MacDowell and to a river, for Schubert’s theme-and-variations movement from his ‘Trout Quintet’.

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on Greensleeves
William Bennett, flute
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner

MARIE-JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Chants d’Auvergne: Bailero
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’: Scene by the brook (Andante molto mosso)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Piano Quintet in A major ‘Trout’: Theme and variations
Andras Schiff, piano
Clemens Hagen, violin
Veronika Hagen, viola
Lukas Hagen, cello
Alois Posch, double bass

EMMANUEL CHABRIER
Idylle
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet

EDWARD MACDOWELL
To a wild rose
Joseph Cooper, piano

EDVARD GRIEG
Norwegian Melody No. 2: Cowkeeper’s tune
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Willi Boskovsky

JULES MASSENET
Scenes alsaciennes: Sous les tilleuls
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
Charles Dutoit

EDWARD MACDOWELL
To a water-lily
Joseph Cooper, piano

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Rosamunde:
Shepherds’ Songs
Shepherds’ Chorus
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Chorus master: Norbert Balatsch
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Munchinger

JOHANN STRAUSS, Jr
Tales from Vienna Woods
Anton Karas, zither
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Willi Boskovsky