Works by Messiaen, Brett Dean and
Beethoven share the bill with exotic birdsong from America, Hawaii
and Thailand
On paper, the Aurora Orchestra's
birdsong extravaganza sounded painfully contrived: birdsong-inspired works by
Messiaen and Brett Dean, interspersed with recordings of the real thing plus
written commentaries, all rounded off by Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony,
and with Ligeti's Poème Symphonique (for a hundred metronomes) thrown
in as a bonus.
In the event, the Ligeti was a
cock-up, but everything else went swimmingly, from the recorded call of the
Northern Cardinal at the outset, to the flute and clarinet bird-calls in the
Beethoven.
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