Mats Lidström, Leif Kaner-Lidström: Swans CD
Inspired by Saint-Saëns’s iconic piece ‘The swan’ (‘Le cygne’) from The Carnival of the Animals, cellist Mats Lidström and his son Leif Kaner-Lidström present no fewer than 24 Swans from across the world and down the ages. Featuring composers as diverse as Fanny Mendelssohn, Orlando Gibbons, Ravel and Villa-Lobos, the album offers up two-dozen musical reflections on the unmistakable and much-loved Saint-Saëns original.
Tracklist:
1. Le cygne (No 13 of Le carnaval des animaux)
2. The swan
3. Łabędź Op 7
4. Le cygne (No 13 of Le carnaval des animaux)
5. The swan
6. Schwanenlied (No 1 of Six Songs, Op 1)
7. Il bianco e dolce cigno
8. Svanen (No 2 of Nine Songs)
9. The silver swan
10. Les cygnes
11. Svanen
12. Le cygne (No 3 of Histoires naturelles)
13. Svanen
14. Ein Schwanengesang
15. Svanen (No 5 of 6 Lyric Pieces, Op 28)
16. O canto do cisne negro
17. Cygne sur l'eau (No 1 of Mirages, Op 113)
18. The swan
19. O cysne
20. Le cygne regarde son reflet dans l'eau
21. The dying swan 'Romance poétique' RO76 Op 100
22. En svane (No 2 of Sex digte af Henrik Ibsen 'Six poems by Henrik Ibsen', Op 25)
23. Schwanengesang D744
24. Pas d'action (No 4 of Swan Lake Suite, Op 20a)