Garden Rhapsody: Enchanted English Cottage Gardens and Floral Melodies

Garden Rhapsody: Enchanted English Cottage Gardens and Floral Melodies

Andrew Lawson (Photographer)
$50.00
Publication Date: February 1st, 2006
Publisher:
Earbooks
ISBN:
9783937406312
Pages:
116

Description

A colorful variety of stylistic elements and harmonious landscaping make the cottage garden one of the most vibrant forms of English garden culture. This musical photo-book invites the viewer to join a musical tour of the enchanting world of English cottage gardens in classical music and atmospheric photography. Music CDs: Experience the whole diversity of English music from Baroque Consort music with the ensemble Harp Consort, conducted by Andrew Laurence-King and lute songs performed by Christoph Genz and continuing on to English music from the romantic period, such as Vaughan Williams Greensleeves fantasy with the London Festival Orchestra.

About the Author

Born in 1945, Andrew Lawson's career in photography has been heavily influenced by his lifelong interest in natural history and painting. A keen gardener himself, he brings a specialist eye to the photography of plants and garden. He is sought after as a photographer by the leading gardeners and garden owners in Britain. His work frequently appears in magazines all over the world; however, Andrew's main body of work is in books. The Lawson family lives in Oxfordshire, England. Andrew's wife, Briony, is a sculptress and her carvings in stone and wood are placed outside in their garden, which acts as an open-air art gallery.