SPRINGTIME!

SPRINGTIME!

Concerto Copenhagen welcomes the spring with music inspired by the sounds of the season.

The seasons have always been a great inspiration for composers, especially spring, when nature comes to life from winter hibernation. Even in the Baroque era, MON can find music that often tried to imitate the sounds and moods of spring, from birdsong to the babbling brook.

Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is particularly well-known, where the music attempts to recreate the sounds of spring. The songs of birds are also repeatedly imitated, as in Vivaldi's two concertos for violin and flute where MON can hear the nightingale(il Rosignuolo), and the bird "Il gardinello", which we know in Denmark as the songbird goldfinch.

In 1927, Italian composer Otto Respighi composed a suite for orchestra based on Baroque music. The suite, titled "Gli Ucelli" (The Birds), not only attempts to evoke the songs of the birds but also their character. In 2015, Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen created a version of Otto Respighi's "Gli Uccelli" for Concerto Copenhagen.

The question is, can you hear the spring, and can you recognize the birds? when Concerto Copenhagen finishes the Springtime concert with ‘the Birds’ by Respighi/Rasmussen.