April’s Show started with the theme of animals but there are just so many pieces of music inspired by animals that I decided to narrow it down to birds and winged creatures. Here’s the playlist.
Gioachino Rossini – The Thieving Magpie – 9:30
Sinfonia Varsovia & Yehudi Menuhin
The Cinematic Orchestra – Arrival of the Birds – 2:38
The Cinematic Orchestra The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)
Clément Janequin – Le chant des oiseaux – 5:36
Carsten Seyer-Hansen
Olivier Messiaen – Catalogue d’Oiseaux, 4/42: No. 8, L’Alouette Calandrelle – 5:21
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Maurice Ravel – L’enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71, Pt. 2: Musique d’insectes, de rainettes, etc. – 1:12
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra & Stéphane Denève
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Wasps – Aristophanic Suite: I. Overture – 10:13
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee – 1:17
Isaac Stern, Milton Katims & Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Puccini – Madame Butterfly / Act 2 “un bel di vedremo” 4.39
Mirella Freni, Herbert von Karajan & Vienna Philharmonic
John Williams – Hedwig’s Theme – 5:09
102-piece London Session Orchestra
Jean Sibelius – The Swan of Tuonela 9.54
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic & Thomas Stacy
Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125: XIII. Le Cygne – 2:58
François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: No. 2, Valse in A-Flat Major (Corps de Ballet) – 7:16
André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Delius – On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring – 5:47
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
George Frideric Handel – Organ Concerto No. 13 in F – “Cuckoo and the Nightingale”, HWV 295: 4. Larghetto – 2:40
Eva Holderlin, Pro Musica Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks – 1:13
Berlin Philharmonic & Sir Simon Rattle
Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Op. 43: No. 4, Little Bird – 1:49
Daniel Gortler
