Summary
A musical walk around the Cairngorms National Park with the self-taught composer, Alexander Chapman-Campbell. Alexander's latest album is inspired by a 650km pilgrimage through Norway in the summer of 2015. He had intended to have a break from composition but, en route and completely by chance, Alexander came across pianos in the farmhouses he stayed in, and the churches he visited. So began the instinctive process of creating an album, 'Journey to Nidaros' (Nidaros is the Cathedral in Trondheim, where his trek ended.) He recounts this adventure to Clare, as they walk in the Cairngorms National Park, a place that reminds him very much of Norway.
Their walk is a five mile circular route around the Glen Tanar estate, near Aboyne, a village on the edge of the highlands, just 26 miles west of Aberdeen.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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| 0:38.1 | sounds hello I'm Claire Balding thank you so much for downloading this podcast I hope you enjoy |
| 0:44.0 | ramblings below us is rushing the water of tanner its pale tea color over pink stones and on the right |
| 0:52.8 | the heavy woodland pine trees beaches we come down to the river. And on the right, the heavy woodland, pine trees, beaches we come down |
| 0:56.1 | to the river itself. And on the left, more open farmland. I'm on the eastern side of the |
| 1:01.8 | Keengorn's National Park, southwest of Aberdeen. And I've come here to meet a man to talk about |
| 1:08.5 | sound and music. |
| 1:13.9 | And it seems entirely appropriate that we are doing so in the midst of the most beautiful sound. |
| 1:19.5 | And there's a faint cloud up above, but the sun is coming through. |
| 1:22.8 | It's a warm day, and Alexander Chapman Campbell is alongside me. |
| 1:27.4 | When I look at landscape, Alexander, I've got to try and describe it for people's eyes. |
| 1:34.2 | And I would, you know, wax lyrical about the stone bridge on which we're standing and the trees and the light catching the leaves. |
| 1:40.9 | But for you, you would do it in musical notes? |
| 1:46.4 | Yes. |
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