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- Olivier Messiaen
Catalogue d'oiseaux (1958)
- Alphonse Leduc (World)
Programme Note
Composed between 1956 and 1958, Catalogue d’oiseaux is a collection of musical portraits of birds, each painstakingly taken down and notated by the composer during visits to the French provinces. Messiaen writes: “Each soloist is presented in its habitat, surrounded by a landscape and the songs of other birds that are found in the same region.”
Book 1 [30’]
i. Le Chocard des Alpes (The Alpine Chough) (coracia graculus) [9’]
ii. Le Loriot (The Golden Oriole) (oriolus oriolus) [8’]
iii. Le Merle Bleu (The Blue Rock Thrush) (monticola solitaries) [13’]
Book 2 [14’]
iv. L e Traquet stapazin (The Black-eyed Wheatear) (oenanthe hispanica) [14’]
Book 3 [16’]
v. La Chouette hulotte (The Tawny Owl) (strix aluco> [8’]
vi. L’Aluette Lulu (The Woodlark) (lullula arborea) [8’]
Book 4 [28’]
vii. La Rousserolle effarvatte (The Reed Warbler) (acrocophalus scirpaceus) [28’]
Book 5 [17’]
viii. L’Alouette calandrelle (The Short-toed Lark) (calendrella brachydactyla) [5’]
ix. La Bouscarle (Cetti’s Warbler) (cettia cetti) [12’]
Book 6 [17’]
x. Le Merle de Roche (The Rock Thrush) (monticola saxatillis) [17’]
Book 7 [28’]
xi. La Buse variable (The Buzzard) (buteo buteo) [10’]
xii. Le Traquet rieur (Black Wheatear) (oenanthe lecura) [7’]
xiii. Le Courlis cendré (The Curlew) numenius arquata) [11’]
Book 1 [30’]
i. Le Chocard des Alpes (The Alpine Chough) (coracia graculus) [9’]
ii. Le Loriot (The Golden Oriole) (oriolus oriolus) [8’]
iii. Le Merle Bleu (The Blue Rock Thrush) (monticola solitaries) [13’]
Book 2 [14’]
iv. L e Traquet stapazin (The Black-eyed Wheatear) (oenanthe hispanica) [14’]
Book 3 [16’]
v. La Chouette hulotte (The Tawny Owl) (strix aluco> [8’]
vi. L’Aluette Lulu (The Woodlark) (lullula arborea) [8’]
Book 4 [28’]
vii. La Rousserolle effarvatte (The Reed Warbler) (acrocophalus scirpaceus) [28’]
Book 5 [17’]
viii. L’Alouette calandrelle (The Short-toed Lark) (calendrella brachydactyla) [5’]
ix. La Bouscarle (Cetti’s Warbler) (cettia cetti) [12’]
Book 6 [17’]
x. Le Merle de Roche (The Rock Thrush) (monticola saxatillis) [17’]
Book 7 [28’]
xi. La Buse variable (The Buzzard) (buteo buteo) [10’]
xii. Le Traquet rieur (Black Wheatear) (oenanthe lecura) [7’]
xiii. Le Courlis cendré (The Curlew) numenius arquata) [11’]