Bird Song Trio Avium

​Birdsong has inspired composers from medieval times to the present day. Led by internationally acclaimed sound artist and composer, Ros Bandt, this project brings together the sounds of local box ironbark birds together with European birdsongs from Couperin to Biber and from the troubadour Bornelh to Blavet. Performed by Trio Avium, Birdsong will premiere at the 2015 Castlemaine State Festival with Ros Bandt (recorders, soundscapes), Vienna-based baroque violinist Cynthia O’Brien, and Ruth Wilkinson (recorders, viola da gamba). As a modern take on birdsong, this project includes the first recording of the well known and much played Flight, Ruth's Magpie Remix and Fratta, a new piece for Cynthia telling the story of how the baby kestrels abandoned in her house in Fratta were saved. Trio Avium plays on the finest baroque instruments including recorders from the nearby workshops of Fred Morgan and Jo-anne Saunders.

Giraut de Bornelh - Reis glorsios

Michel Pignolet Monteclair - Les ramages

Jacob van Eyck - der Fluyten Lust-Hof - Engels Nachtegaeltje

Anonymous Dutch - The nightingale

Anon - The bird fancyer's delight - Linnet

Rose Bandt - Magpie remix (2004/2014)

Joseph Bodin Boismortier - Sonata 2 en trio Op. VII, no. 2 - Modérément - Rondeau : Gayment - Lentement - Gigue

Anon - The bird fancyer's delight - Woodlark, Linnet 

Ros Bandt - Fratta

Michel Blavet - Les recueils de pieces - Les Bergeries

Francois Couperin - Les Rossignols en amour

Michel Blavet - Pourquoi doux rossignols

Ros Bandt - Flight

Michel Pignolet Monteclair - Cinquieme concert a deux - Fugue : gayement

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Sonata representativa

Anon. The bird fancyer's delight Parrot

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre - Brunette en Trio á 3 - Gravement - Modéré et par Eco - Air Anglois, Gay -

Anon - The bird fancyer's delight East India Nightingale -

Robert Orme - Trio sonata IV, L'imitation du chant de plusiers oyseaux - Allegro.