Classical Tweets
A garden pond with nine large exotic birds, two potted plants and a statue of Mercury. Etching by J. G. Thelott, 18th century, after S. Kleiner. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Mercury; Jacob Gottlieb Thelott; Salomon Kleiner By:http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/32/6c/1c846523201884af9266f457a775.jpgGallery: http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0044517.html, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36657379
On this week's Prairie Performances, Friday night at 7 pm on WILL-FM 90.9: Hear Messiaen's "Oiseaux exotiques," in which the composer catalogs exotic bird songs, paired with equally exotic rhythms from India and ancient Greece. Frank Martin's colorful Concerto for Seven Winds features both neoclassical and modern elements and Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose," originally a five-movement work for piano four-hands invokes fairy tale landscapes and displays the composer's mastery of orchestration.
"Classical Tweets" (3/12/16)
Sinfonia da Camera
Ian Hobson, conductor
Rochelle Sennett, piano
Jonathan Keeble, flute
John Dee, oboe
Jiyeon Choi, clarinet
Henry Skolnick, bassoon
Christopher Williams, horn
Ronald Romm, trumpet
Jim Pugh, trombone
Olivier Messiaen | Oiseaux exotiques
Frank Martin | Concerto for Seven Winds
Maurice Ravel | Mother Goose