Roy Douglas Cantilena. Sir Peter Markham Scott Paintings
Cantilena by the British composer, Roy Douglas, is played in this recording by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by David LloydJones. The paintings are by Sir Peter Markham Scott. Taken from Wikipedia : Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC Bar, FRS, FZS, (14 September 1909 29 August 1989), was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their rearing and breeding. He established the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was also a gliding and yachting enthusiast from an early age. He was part of the British sailing team that won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He was knighted in 1973 for his work in the conservation of wild animals and was also a recipient of the WWF Gold Medal and the J. Pa
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