Garden Rhapsody: Enchanted English Cottages and Floral Melodies. This item is unavailable.Garden Rhapsody: Enchanted English Cottages and Floral Melodies

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.

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.