Title: Réveil des oiseaux
English title: The Waking of the Birds
Genre: orchestral
Composition Date: 1953
Publisher: Durand (Paris)
Instrumentation: 4.3.4.3, 2.2.0.0, piano solo, celesta, xylophone, glockenspiel, 2 percussion, 8.8.8.8.6
Duration: 20 minutes
Premiere: 11 October 1953, Donaueschingen (Yvonne Loriod, piano; Südwest-funk Orchestra; Hans Rosbaud, conductor)
Dedication: “A la memoire de l'écrivan et ornithologue: Jacques Delamain. En hommage à Yvonne Loriod, qui a doigté, et joué de façon géniale la partie de piano solo de cette œuvre. Aux merles, grives, rossignols, loriots, rouges-gorges, pouillots, fauvettes, et à tous les oiseaux de nos forêts.” [“To the memory of the writer and ornithologist, Jacques Delamain. In hommage to Yvonne Loriod, who [created] the fingering and has played with a genial facility the solo piano part of this work. To the blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, orioles, red-breasted robins, willow-warblers, warblers, and all the birds of our forests.”]
Movements: Unknown.
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