Learning to Fly

Hello, good afternoon, bon quatorze juillet and welcome to today's episode of Resounding Echoes. I consider that music is, by it's very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: Learning to Fly (Resounding Echoes)
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Resounding Echoes: Learning to Fly

Learning to Fly - don't try this at home

Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 4, Op 30 (1903)
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Gabriel Fauré: Impromptu for Harp, Op 86 (1904)
Catrin Finch, harp

We would like to reassure our listeners that no birds were in any way harmed during the making of this programme. Our piano however received an unspeakably savage beating.

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