The music of Olivier Messiaen was fundamentally influenced by his study of birdsong. Almost all his works contain some reference to birdsong, but some are built entirely upon such motifs. Oiseaux exotiques was composed in 1956 for piano and a small orchestra of 11 wind instruments and percussion. The piano part was written for Messiaen’s student Yvonne Loriod, whom he married in 1961. Although the one-movement work features more than 40 different birdsong elements, it would be a mistake to regar...d it merely as music imitative of ornothological sounds. Instead, it is a fantasy composed primarily of tones and rhythms. Ravel began writing two piano concertos simultaneously in 1930. He spoke of his work to a Daily Telegraph correspondent thus: “It was an interesting experiment to compose and execute the two concertos in parallel. The first is a concerto in the strictest sense of the word in the spirit of Mozart or Saint-Saëns, which I intend to perform myself. In my opinion, the music of the concerto can be happy and sparkling, and need not necessarily strive for depth and dramatic effects.” The solo part for the Piano concerto in G major was eventually played not by Ravel, but by Marguerite Long at its première at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 14 January 1932, with Ravel conducting the orchestra. Brahms wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D major in 1877, completed with surprising speed by the composer’s standards in scarcely four months. Composed on the shores of the Wörthersee in Carinthia, the melancholic symphony in four movements is, with its idyllic atmosphere, the opposite of the dramatic Symphony No. 1. The sharply contrasting mood of Brahms’ first two symphonies is likened by many music historians to the change in tone between Beethoven’s fifth and six symphonies. The work was premièred on 30 December 1877 by the Vienna Philharmonic, under the baton of world-famous Hungarian-born conductor János Richter. Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra
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