🐦Cantus Arcticus🦢

▫Concerto for Birds and Orchestra▫
🎼Einojuhani Rautavaara🎼
🎻Orchestre Philharmonique
de Radio France🎻
Mikko Franck ▫ conductor

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Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61, is a 1972 orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. It is one of his best-known works.[1]
Subtitled Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, it incorporates tape recordings of birdsong recorded near the Arctic Circle, and on the bogs of Liminka, in northern Finland.

The work is in three movements and was originally commissioned by the University of Oulu for its first doctoral degree ceremony and premièred on 18 October 1972
This is a concert performance from 2019․

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