tue 28 may 2024 19:00 hrs
Bird song:
Cliché as it may be, music is all around us. When you walk out the door or even just crack a window, you immediately hear it: bird songs intertwine, creating a beautiful symphony.
And so this episode of An Early Evening Stroll is all about bird song and how this left its mark on the works of renowned composers. We will stroll from Great Britain to France to the USA and will hear the diverse variations of birds from both the western and eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Programme details:
- Frederick Delius, On hearing the first cuckoo of Spring
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Thomas Beechman. - Olivier Messiaen, Le merle noir
Emmanuel Pahud, flute, Eric le Sage, piano. - Antonín Dvorák, Quartet for violins, viola and cello no.12, B.179, op.96 in F major, “American”
Skampa Quartet. - Amy Beach, Hermit Thrush at Eve and Hermit Thrush at Morn
Virginia Eskin, piano. - Amy Beach, The Thursh, op. 14, no. 4, the Blackbird, op 11, no. 3 and Meadow Larks, op. 78, no. 1 Rachel Evangeline Barham, soprano and Jeremy Fisell, piano.
Encore
- Camile Saint-Saëns, Le Carnival des animaux, X: Volière
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn.
Peter Markham Scott, The Lake, a Celebration of Life, 1962.
