
Alexa Stier, piano
This program explores the connection between bird calls, nature, and the supernatural. Rameau’s Tendres Plaintes evokes sighing, melancholic gestures, while Le Rappel des Oiseaux explores birdsong through elaborate ornamentations, idiosyncratic to the French baroque keyboard style. In Olivier Messiaen’s Petites Esquisses d’Oiseaux, robins, blackbirds, thrushes, and skylarks emerge in vivid, crystalline textures. Schumann’s Waldszenen transports […]