Réveil des oiseaux (Awakening of the birds) is a work by Olivier Messiaen for piano and orchestra written in 1953.[1] Messiaen invoked birdsong in this composition, as he had in the earlier Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941). In Réveil des oiseaux he used bird song motifs throughout.[2]
réveil, oiseaux, awakening, birds, work, olivier, messiaen, piano, orchestra, written, 1953, messiaen, invoked, birdsong, this, composition, earlier, quatuor, pour, temps, 1941, used, bird, song, motifs, throughout, contents, origin, creation, discography, ref. Reveil des oiseaux Awakening of the birds is a work by Olivier Messiaen for piano and orchestra written in 1953 1 Messiaen invoked birdsong in this composition as he had in the earlier Quatuor pour la fin du temps 1941 In Reveil des oiseaux he used bird song motifs throughout 2 Contents 1 Origin and creation 2 Discography 3 References 4 External linksOrigin and creation editReveil des oiseaux was commissioned by the German critic and musicologist Heinrich Strobel 1898 1970 3 It is a 28 minute work dedicated to the memory of ornithologist Jacques Delamain and was premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival on October 11 1953 Yvonne Loriod was the piano soloist while the Orchestra of the Sudwestfunk Baden Baden was conducted by Hans Rosbaud 4 The orchestra ensemble included 3 Western concert flutes 1 piccolo 2 oboes 1 English horn 4 clarinets 3 bassoons 2 French horns 2 trumpets 2 percussionists 1 xylophone 1 glockenspiel 1 celesta 8 violins I 8 violins II 8 violas 8 cellos 6 double basses and a piano soloist Discography editVaclav Neumann Czech Philharmonic Yvonne Loriod piano Supraphone 1969 Kent Nagano Orchestre national de France Yvonne Loriod piano Erato Musifrance 1996 Trois petites liturgies de la presence divine Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra Pierre Laurent Aimard piano Deutsche Grammophon 1997 Sept haikai Poemes pour Mi References edit Hill Peter 2011 The Messiaen Companion London Faber and Faber pp 420 422 ISBN 9780571281046 Hill Peter Simeone Nigel eds 2007 Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques Aldershot Ashgate p 27 ISBN 978 0 7546 5630 2 Benitez Vincent P 2008 Olivier Messiaen A Research and Information Guide Routledge p 52 ISBN 0415973724 Dingle Christopher 2007 The Life of Messiaen Cambridge amp New York Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 63547 0External links edit Reveil des oiseaux work details in French and English IRCAM Animated score on YouTube Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra Pierre Laurent Aimard piano Portal nbsp Classical music Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Reveil des oiseaux amp oldid 1200553738, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
