Brittany / Normandy

Seascape / Etretat / Mont St-Michel / Enclos paroissial and Calvary of Pleyben / Creac'h Lighthouse / Ile d'Ouessant (Ushant) Alignments of Carnac

Ile de Fedrun / La Grande Briere / Les Marais Salants (Salt Marshes) / Le Croisic / Lanester / Abbey of Jumieges

Storm / Ushant and La Baule / Bayeux Tapestry Rotheneuf Rock Carvings

Mont St-Michel

Ushant and Ile aux Moines / Enclos paroissial and Calvary at Plougonven / Tregastel Harbour / St.-Quay-Portrieux Pointe de St.-Mathieu / By Boat from Brest to Ushant

Normandy

Iles de Chausey / Quiberon Peninsula / Mont St-Michel

Date of Production: 2015-04-21

Playing Time: 00:55:45

Catalogue Number: 2.110300

UPC: 747313530052

The Places

Brittany and Normandy, in Northern France, have a character all their own, preserving, as they do, ancient Celtic traditions in a countryside bounded on one side by a rocky coast-line. The great Abbey of Mont St-Michel remains a centre of pilgrimage and secular interest, and in Normandy we catch glimpses of the Bayeux Tapestry, with its near contemporary record of William of Normandy's successful expedition in 1066 to conquer England.

The Music

The music chosen for this tour of Northern France is the Organ Symphony of Camille Saint-Saens, a work written in memory of Franz
Liszt that takes its name from the use of the organ in its grandiose
final movement. The other music to be heard is an orchestral version of the Belgian-born composer Cesar Franck's Prelude and Chorale, written two years earlier, in 1884, and the Romance in C major, Op. 48, of Saint-Saens.