OCMF 2025: Birds of Paradise
Schedule
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 12:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Holywell Music Room | Oxford, EN
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A veritable aviary of musical birds here, whose natural home is Eden. Vivaldi's concerto The Goldfinch mimics the movement, more than the song of the goldfinch. Haydn's Lark is a sky-high violin song but (perhaps wisely) not an accurate transcription of a lark's frenzy. Music's ultimate bird-fancier Messiaen gives us that great songster the blackbird, almost note-for-note, while Beethoven has nightingale, quail and cuckoo singing over each other. A Catalan folk-song celebrates all birds, and Schumann's eerie prophet bird is a messenger from another world.Vivaldi The cuckoo and The goldfinch
Haydn from string quartet 'The Lark'
Messiaen Le merle noir (The Blackbird) and Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the birds)
Beethoven Scene by the brook arr. sextet
Trad. arr Casals Song of the birds
Schumann Vogel als Prophet (The prophet bird)
Artists: Roy Amotz, Julian Arp, Alena Baeva, Reto Bieri, Sascha Bota, Claude Frochaux, Tetiana Lutsyk, Priya Mitchell, Brian O’Kane, Annette Walther
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Where is it happening?
Holywell Music Room, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
