For the Birds

[minacciosa]

Henry Hadley's Symphony No.5 "Connecticut" uses birdcalls in its second movement. ......

Wow! It sounds like you have a recording of Hadley's 5th! If so, is it possible to upload it - please? I only know of the Naxos disc of his 4th....

He is definitely an unsung composers whose works I would love to hear! 

Unfortunately I don't have a recording; I have a score. Should a performance occur, I will certainly share.

[alberto]

Birtwistle: Night's black bird ( I have heard it twice in actual concerts in the span of one year; magisterial avant-garde- and the piece is short).
Villa Lobos : Uirapurù (or "The Enchanted Bird")
Ravel: Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis

[Peter1953]

An old thread, but a new spring. Recently I came across a CD called The animal in the 20th century piano music, played by the Dutch pianist Marius van Paassen (1983).
The birds are:
Ravel: Oiseaux Tristes (= sad birds), from Miroirs
Granados: Quejas ó la Maya y el Ruisenor (= the complaint or the maiden and the nightingale), from Goyescas. Towards the end of the piece in a sad silence, a nightingale sings.
Van den Sigtenhorst Meyer: from Eight Préludes: No. 5 Marabou and No. 6 Humming-bird
Messiaen: Le Traquet stapazin (= some kind of a Bunting, living in the Pyrenees near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea), from Le Catalogue des Oiseaux.

[chill319]

MacDowell wrote a miniature etude called "To a Hummingbird."

[mjkFendrich]

Hermann Suter's 3rd string quartet op.20 in G (1918) has the title "Amselrufe" (blackbird songs)
unfortunately I've never heard it.

[carter brandon]

Finnissy's 3rd Quartet-44 mins long-sustantial portions of taped birdsong.

My favourite 'official' birdsong orchestral moment is the actual opening of Englund 2- cited earlier

You will hear a lot of birdsong in Maxwell Davies- many places

I swear if you listen often enough to Webern's op21 symphony, first movement, it is there in the clarinet

[chill319]

From Wikipedia's entry on Martin Denny, he of the exotic lounge music:

The original combo consisted of Augie Colon on percussion and birdcalls,

[reiger]

Has anyone mentioned Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition?

[Christopher]

Has anyone mentioned Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition?

Or the Hut on Hen's Legs for that matter....!

[sdtom]

In my cleaning and reorganizing of my CD's I found a recording of the 'blackbird.' Not too impressed

[mbhaub]

Ah, but I am deeply impressed with the Blackbird Pub in Earl's Court. My favorite London hangout...

[sdtom]

I'm happy for you friend. I'll give it another listen.
Tom