Gary Wood - Aviary - Birds in Poetry and Song (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 177 MB | Tracks: 20 | 49:35 min
Style: Classical | Label: MSR Classics
It all started with William Butler Yates' poem, The Wild Swans at Coole. One October day, as I was reading and reflecting on this wonderful poem, a melody for the opening line (The trees are in their Autumn Beauty) came to me. Several hours later, seated at the piano, I had written the opening to the song. In the following days, as I worked on it, the idea came up to write a song-cycle of poems on the subject of birds.