 | This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from March 16, 2012. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/Birds_63 |
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This week’s
throwback montage dates back to our first Spring on the blog and is a set of
works inspired by birds: larks, magpies, swallows, swans, nightingales, hens,
seagulls and a piano suite dedicated to song birds by composer and amateur
ornithologist, Olivier Messiaen.
As I often
point out when we revisit old montages, I’m always pleasantly surprised how the
original post does a good job setting up the montage, and I’ll simply refer you
to the above link to read it. The post also included a filler – a complete performance
of the entire Respighi suite Gli Ucelli in a vintage performance by the
Chicago Symphony.
If you dare
venture into the original “bilingual” section (in French), I inserted a concert
performance of this week’s bonus track, Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques, a
work from the mid-1950’s originally commissioned by Pierre Boulez and meant to
feature Messiaen’s wife, Yvonne Loriod, as soloist.
The birds
that inspired Messiaen in this piece are: the gracula of India, the
golden-fronted verdin, the Baltimore Trouble, the greater prairie chicken, the
prairie northern mockingbird, the cat bird, the Indian shama, the white-crested
laughingthrush, the migratory blackbird, entrusted to the two clarinets, the
swainson, the thrush hermit, the red-whiskered bulbul and the wood thrush.
The YouTube
clip features Philippe Entremont as soloist, and the Cleveland Orchestra under
Boulez’s direction.
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