Duration 20 minutes
Premiere 11 October 1953 Donaueschingen Yvonne Loriod piano; Südwest-funk Orchestra; Hans Rosbaud conductor
Dedication A la memoire de l`écrivan et ornithologue Jacques Delamain. En hommage à Yvonne Loriod qui a doigté et joué de façon géniale la partie de piano solo de cette œuvre. Aux merles grives rossignols loriots rouges-gorges pouillots fauvettes et à tous les oiseaux de nos forêts. [To the memory of the writer and ornithologist Jacques Delamain. In hommage to Yvonne Loriod who [created] the fingering and has played with a genial facility the solo piano part of this work. To the blackbirds thrushes nightingales orioles red-breasted robins willow-warblers warblers and all the birds of our forests.]