In Their Branches: Musical Reflections / Various In Their Branches: Musical Reflections / Various CD

The relationship between trees and people goes right back to the forests of the first humans, and our ambivalent engagement with trees can be traced through to the here and now, via fairy tales, mythology, and science. But this relationship begins afresh for each one of us in childhood. For some hard-to-define reason, trees provide a kind of nourishment of the soul, whatever our belief system. We find a freedom and a deep comfort when we climb a tree; when we sit with and commune with something we imagine or sense as sentient (even if in a vastly different way to ourselves)

1. Richard Mills Symphony of Nocturnes: I. the Nocturnal Power of Trees Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills Conductor 2. Jane Rutter Kodama Tree Spirit Jane Rutter Flute, Bertie Rutter Boekemann Voice 3. David Jones Forest Walks David Jones Percussion 4. Ottorno Respighi Pines of Rome: II. Pine Trees Near a Catacomb West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester Conductor 5. Traditional Arr. Benjamin Britten the Ash Grove Yvonne Kenny Voice, Caroline Almonte Piano 6. Percy Grainger My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope Conductor 7. Miriam Hyde Forest Echoes, Op. 12: II. Lonely Trees Roger Woodward Piano 8. Franz Schubert Winterreise, D911: V. Der Lindenbaum Wolfgang Holzmair Baritone, Imogen Cooper Piano 9. Kurt Schwertsik Baumges?nge, Op. 65 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn Conductor 10. Anonymous Arr. William Byrd Will Ye Walk the Woods So Wild? Rosemary Hodgson Lute 11. Peter Sculthorpe Great Sandy Island: III. the Rain-Forest Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, James Judd Conductor 12. Toru Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II Stephanie McCallum Piano 13. Traditional Arr. Julian Yu Sakura Shu-Cheen Yu Soprano, Jim Franklin Shakuhachi, Sinfonia Australis, Anthony Walker Conductor 14. Edward MacDowell Forest Idylls, Op. 19: III. Daydreams Roger Woodward Piano 15. Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag Donna Coleman Piano 16. Anton?n Dvorßk Twelve Cypresses for String Quartet, B152: XI. Nad Krajem V?vod? Lehk² Spßnek Australian String Quartet 17. Robert Schumann Waldszenen, Op. 82: I. Eintritt Ian Hotham Piano 18. George Frideric Handel Xerxes, HWV40: Largo (Ombra Mai F?) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Nicolette Fraillon Conductor