For the birds...

by Rex Levang, Minnesota Public Radio
July 25, 2011
Canteloube: The Cuckoo (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Chausson: The Hummingbird (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Haydn: :"Hen" Symphony (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Howells: Penguinski (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Kodaly: Peacock Variations (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Lamb: Ragtime Bobolink (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine (The Swallow) (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude (The Sea and the Gulls") (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Jean Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons) Stanford: The Blue Bird (Images courtesy Wikimedia commons)

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Welcome to our classical music aviary. This week, we're stretching our ornithological muscles to focus on the beauty of music and birds.

St. Paul, Minn. — Here's a handful of pieces you might hear sprinkled throughout the playlist this week; plus all of our 10 a.m. "Morning Glories" will share the similar themes.

Josef Strauss: Village Swallows from Austria

Herbert Howells: Penguinski

Haydn: "Lark" Quartet

Joseph Canteloube: The Cuckoo

Gabriela Lena Frank: The Mountain Hummingbird

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Haydn: :"Hen" Symphony

Stanford: The Blue Bird

Grieg: A Swan

Dello Joio: An Exaltation of Larks

Chausson: The Hummingbird

Kodaly: Peacock Variations

Scott Joplin: The Silver Swan

Joseph Lamb: Ragtime Bobolink

Puccini: La Rondine (The Swallow)

Rossini: The Thieving Magpie

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Rachmaninoff: Prelude (The Sea and the Gulls")

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

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