Ravel, M :: Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis (Three Beautiful Birds of Paradise)
International Opus presents 'Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis (Three Beautiful Birds of Paradise)' by Maurice Ravel, transcribed for woodwind quintet by D. Wilson Ochoa.
This piece was originally a choral work, the second of three chansons Ravel set to music based on a poem from World War I. The music closely follows the story:
A young girl is visited by three birds (from paradise) and she inquired of them for news about her love, who is a soldier fighting on the battlefields on World War I. The haunting oboe melody that keeps returning is the call of the young girl. The first two birds (flute at #1, and the clarinet and bassoon after #2) tell her of the heroic deeds of her love, but the third bird (horn at #4) brings news of his death in battle. The young girl is heartbroken.
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