Southern France

Provence: Port de Poussai / Cote d'Azur: Corniche de l'Esterel, Sea at Cannes, Ile St-Honorat, Abbaye de Lerins

Provence: Beaucaire, Frejus / Cote d’Azur: Vallee de l'Esterel / Provence: Ile d'Or, Les Alpilles, Chateau du roi Rene, Tarascon / Camargue: Aigues-Mortes / Provence: Port de Marseille

Provence: Beaucaire, Frejus / Cote d'Azur: Vallee de l'Esterel / Provence: Ile d'Or, Les Alpilles, Chateau du roi Rene, Tarascon / Camargue: Aigues-Mortes / Provence: Port de Marseille

Provence: Arles, Fetes des Gardians and Notre-Dame

Provence: Church and Cemetery of St Vincent, Les Baux

Provence: Church and Cemetery of St. Vincent, Les Baux

Provence: Vineyards

Provence: Landscapes

Cote d'Azur: Seascapes

Cote d'Azur: Nautilus Aquarium, Cannes / Provence: Evening at Les Baux

Camargue: Wildlife

Provence: Chapel of St Sixtus, Eygalieres and Alphonse Daudet's Mill, Fontvieille

Provence: Chapel of St. Sixtus, Eygalieres and Alphonse Daudet's Mill, Fontvieille

Camargue: Seaquarium, Port Camargue

Camargue: Coast, Port Camargue

Cote d'Azur: Chateau d'If, Marseille

Provence: Landscape near Maussane

Provence: Pont du Gard, Abbaye de Montmajour

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Date of Production: 2009-06-09

Playing Time: 01:00:27

Catalogue Number: 2.110516

UPC: 747313551651

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The Places

Scenes of Provence, with its ancient Roman remains and ancestral traditions, mingle with the coast of the Cote d'Azur with its blue seas, rocks and islands and with the great nature reserve of Camargue, land of wild bulls and horses.

The Music

Chopin and Puccini may seem outsiders in a gathering of French musicians. The former, however, was the son of an emigre French father and spent the greater part of his life in Paris, while Puccini finds a place here with his transformation of the Abbe Prevost's novel Manon Lescaut into an immensely moving opera. Other composers reflect a French tradition ranging from Berlioz to Ravel.