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Olivier Messiaen’s Réveil des Oiseaux (Awakening of the Birds) is, curiously enough, precisely what its title says. It is not some symbolic interpretation of the dawn of spring or the rebirth of nature. Instead, the listener is provided with a list of the names of 38 different birds in five different languages, beginning of course with the original French. The music imitates the different calls of all these birds in succession, with limited variation of the calls infused into the piano solo...
Janequin: Choral Works (the Bach Choral Society of Montreal, conducted by George Little; Vox). The strange, polyphonic songs of the 16th century French composer who pushed musical description to a new high-or low. Stereo fans will be fascinated by two pieces in particular: Le Chant des Oiseaux, in which the chorus twitters and coos, and La Guerre, in which the chorus, without lifting its collective voice beyond a murmur, suggests the confused clamor of the battlefield...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Berwald, Symphony no. 6 in E flat; Ives, Violin sonata no. 4; Beethoven, Mass in C major; Faure, Piano quartet in C minor, no. 1; A. Scarlatti, Sinfonia in D minor; Schubert, String quartet no. 13; Messaien, Oiseaux exotiques...
...formally took over the Dragon Throne at Hué; two years later he married beautiful Mariette-Jeanne Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, the daughter of a wealthy Cochin-Chinese merchant. The Empress Nam Phuong was a Roman Catholic, educated at Paris' Convent "Aux Oiseaux...
...lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...