An Ornithological Opuscule...musical works with BIRDS in their titles...?

[hafwen]

Our feathered friends have inspired a huge amount of music over the centuries...how many can you list, and which are your favourites?

Being a Baroque freak, I'm madly in love with Handel's organ concerto, "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" - jam-packed with bird calls!
And Vivaldi wrote a wonderfully ornate flute concerto called "Il Gardellino" ("The Goldfinch.")

I'm looking forward to your responses!

Hafwen x

 

[relaxin_adios&thanks]

Variations on a Hungarian folksong "The Peacock"- Zoltán Kodály
Wood Dove, Op. 110/B 198 - Antonín Dvorák
La gazza ladra - Gioachino Rossini
Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op 18
-Sergei Prokofiev
Le rappel des oiseaux -Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin, Book 3
Le rossignol en amour - François Couperin

 

[asnakeny]

One of my favorite pieces is Toru Takemitsu's "A Flock of Birds Descends on the Pentagonal Garden."

 

[hfrankmann]

Lots of references to birds in "The Magic Flute", particularly on reference to Papagena/Papageno.

 

[Richard M]

Messiaen was largely influenced by birds in the 50's. I don't know his works yet but this is what I read in an encyclopedia.

Ravel - Oiseaux tristes

 

[snide76258]

Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

Frederick Delius - On Hearing The Cuckoo For The First Time In Spring

 

[theseizemusic]

I don't suppose Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeney Todd counts?