Archive: A DECLARATION OF LOVE TO NATURE
Grafenegg Auditorium
Jun Märkl traces the flight of birds in music.
© Takaki Kumada
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
«Alvorada na floresta tropical» | «Dawn in a tropical rain forest» Overture for Orchestra
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
«The Lark Ascending» Romance for Violin and Orchestra
JOSEF STRAUSS
Dorfschwalben aus Österreich, Waltz op. 164
IGOR STRAWINSKI
«Le chant du Rossignol» Symphonic poem
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
«Pini di Roma» Symphonic poem
Tonkunstler Orchestra · Akiko Suwanai · Jun Märkl
VILLA-LOBOS · WILLIAMS · STRAUSS · STRAWINSKI · RESPIGHI
From the lark to the nightingale, village swallows and exotic species: Jun Märkl, who has enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership with the Tonkunstler Orchestra, leads the audience on a search for the birds in music history in this colourful programme, culminating in Ottorino Respighi's tone poem «Pines of Rome» The Italian composer was so keen on realism that at one point he intended to use recordings of the nightingale in this work. The soloist of the evening is the Japanese virtuoso Akiko Suwanai, who musically recreates the soaring flight of a lark in Ralph Vaughan Williams's touching romance.
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