Lyrical Bird Song

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Lyrical Bird Song

Episode • 50 Mins • 01 MAY 22 • Dawn Chorus ADVERTISEMENT PLAYING…

Aedín Gormley delves into the RTE Lyric FM music library to reflect on how composers and songwriters have been inspired by birds and bird song through the ages.

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Aedín Gormley delves into the RTE Lyric FM music library to reflect on how composers and songwriters have been inspired by birds and bird song through the ages.

Episode Playlist

JIN-Respighi

RTE National Symphony Orchestra

The Lark on the Strand

Lunny/Glackin

The Birds: (iv) L'usignoulo (The Nightingale)

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

the Five Bar Pigeon

Lunny/Glackin

The Carnival of the Animals (9th movement) The Cuckoo

Peter Ustinov (narrator)

The Swallows Tail

Donal Lunny / Paddy Glackin

Le Coucou

Finghin Collins (piano)

The Lark in the Morning

Paddy Glackin / Donal Lunny

Inishlacken: (ii) The Island Terns

Zoe Conway (fiddle), Helena Wood (violin)

the blackbird

Lunny/Glackin

Lon Dubh / Maidrín Ruadh (The Blackbird/The Fox)

Laoise Kelly (harp)

The Blackbird Of Glanmore

Seamus Heaney

A Blackbird Singing

Ailish Tynan

Blackbird

Jason Rebello (piano)

Cantus Arcticus - III: Swans migrating

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

The Lark in the Clear Air

Fionnuala Hunt (violin)