Archive: A DECLARATION OF LOVE TO NATURE

Grafenegg Auditorium

Jun Märkl traces the flight of birds in music.

Artists

  • Tonkunstler Orchestra
  • Akiko Suwanai, violin
  • Jun Märkl, conductor

Programme

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

Introduction/abstract

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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