The tenor soloist sings falsetto to represent one of these roasting animals in the “Olim lacus colueram” aria from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Sixteen of these creatures inspired a horn theme that precedes six isolated chords in the finale of the fifth symphony by a Finnish composer. Saint-Saens represents this animal with a cello played over two p
The tenor soloist sings falsetto to represent one of these roasting animals in the “Olim lacus colueram” aria from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Sixteen of these creatures inspired a horn theme that precedes six isolated chords in the finale of the fifth symphony by a Finnish composer. Saint-Saens represents this animal with a cello played over two pianos while the English horn is used for these creatures as they float through the realm of the dead in a tone poem from the Leminkainen Suite. For 10 points, a story from the Kalevala about what birds floating through Tuonela inspired Jean Sibelius?