“The flow of a river is endless, and its water is never the same,” wrote a 13th century Japanese poet.
Composers, too, have been inspired by the varied nature of the rivers they knew. We’ve featured some in another program—but like a river’s flow, there’s always more to come along.
In this hour, music celebrating the German Rhine, the Mississippi, the Thames in England, the Red River in Texas, and more.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
| Handel: Water Music | Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Laurence Cummings | Accent ACC 26407 | 4015023264076 |
| Price: Mississippi River Suite | Women’s Philharmonic, Apo Hsu | Koch 3-7518-2 HI | 099923751823 |
| Schumann: Complete Symphonies [for “Rhenish”] | Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, John Elliot Gardner | Archiv Produktion 289 457 591-2 | 028945759128 |
| The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, [for Das Rheingold] | Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Edo De Waart | RCA Red Seal 74321 447842 | 743214478424 |
| Abbado Conducts Mussorgsky [for Khovanshchina Prelude: "Dawn on the Moscow River"] | London Symphony, Claudio Abbado, | RCA Gold Seal 61354 | 09026613542 |
| Grainger: Orchestral Works 3 [for “Spoon River”] | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox | Chandos CHAN 9839 | 095115163825 |
| Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, “The Trout”. | Andras Schiff and members of the Hagen Quartet | Decca 411 975-2 | 028941197528 |
| Finzi: Introit, etc [for A Severn Rhapsody, by Gerald Finzi] | London Philharmonic Orchestra; Adrian Boult | Lyrita SRCD 239 | 5020926023926 |
| The Western Film World of Dimitri Tiomkin [for Red River] | London Studio Symphony Orchestra, Laurie Johnson | Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD2011 | 5016908201123 |
