Animal Songs: Bestiaries in English, French, and German

Two professors from Iowa present a classical recital. 25 songs by Ravel, Reger, Flanders and Swann, and Gompper tell of two peacocks, mice, chickens, bees, warthogs, and buffalo; an armadillo, cricket, swan, kingfisher, guinea fowl, sloth, wild boar, spider, hedgehog, fly, cat, rooster, stork, charley horse (!), polar bear, camel and vulture; as well as other denizens of the barnyard, jungle and ocean. This is music to make you smile, laugh and perhaps think about what our animal friends can teach us about ourselves and the world in which we live. All ages.

Stephen Swanson, baritone and David Gompper, piano.

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