anything that is calm, relaxing perhaps with a touch of harpsichord. Evocative of long sunny summer days, birds & insects buzzing lazily etc etc
2007-10-13 23:42:30 · 15 answers · asked by Hoadie 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Of course, if you want to be corny there is a piece by Percy Grainger called 'In an English Country Garden'. Also consider The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams or the slow movement of his 5th Symphony. Incidentally, it's odd that most of the recommendations hitherto have been for non-English music. Are we so bad at selling the home made product? Much English music of the 1900s - 1950s is pastoral in nature.
2007-10-14 01:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake - Andante
Overture Nutcracker suite
March from Nutcracker suite
Dance to Reed flute
Arabian Dance
Chinese Dance
Mozart - Eine Kliene Nachtmusk (1st movement)
4th movement
Piano Sonata 14332 - Adagio
Flute and Harp Concerto - Andantino
Handel - Concerto Grosso No.5 (5th movement)
Concerto Grosso No.9 (2nd movement)
Water Music - Adagio
Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 Italian
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Notturno
Haydn - Symphony No.96 - Andante
Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Spring/Largo
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4 - Andante
Greig - Peer Gynt Suite - Solveing's Song
Rachmaninov - Vocalise
Schubert - Movement Musical
2007-10-14 00:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are a few pieces that you may find evocative of English Gardens:
The Banks of Greenwillow by George Butterworth.
Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar.
"Sheep may safely graze." Cantata BWV 208, by J.S. Bach.
Prelude from the Lute Suite No.4 by J.S. Bach.
The Swan from Carnival of Animals by C. Saint-Saens.
2007-10-14 14:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elgar ~ Enigma Variations
Dvorak ~ Largo from the 'New World' symphony
Sailing By {theme from the Shipping Forecast}
The old Radio 4 theme ~ Early One Morning / Rule Britannia / Londonderry Air / Annie Laurie / What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor / Greensleeves / Men of Harlech / Scotland the Brave / Trumpet Voluntary
2007-10-14 00:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two that immediately spring to mind are:
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor (3rd movement) - this is usually on the same CD as the Mendelssohn concerto
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
2007-10-15 16:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could also look for some Elizabethan era music by the likes of John Dowland, Thomas Tallis, Robert Johnson (not the blues singer), Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd. A link to a few samples is below.
2007-10-15 08:36:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
attempt the piano concertos by technique of Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Brahms. The Grieg piano concerto is large too. For piano song attempt something by technique of Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert or Schumann Mozart is more suitable tender yet very shifting.
2016-10-21 03:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Olivier Messiaen or Turo Takemitsu.
English gardens.....hmmmm.....lemme think.
HUH.....Try slow movements from Bach's English and French Suites. But their title have nothing to do with English gardens. That's something else. I had a lot in my mind...but I don't remember...I get it.... Philip Glass's score for The Hours. IT'S GORGEOUS.
2007-10-14 03:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by sting 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want to cover the garden's character for the full year, i would suggest Vivaldi's the seasons, which is also one of the greatest classical orchestral works ever composed..
2007-10-14 00:03:21 · answer #9 · answered by Wamibo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to be Beethoven's 6th Symphony - The 'Pastoral'
OR
'Morning' from Greig's Peer Gynt Suite.
2007-10-13 23:57:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋