I. Amigas de los pájaros (Friends of the Birds). Vivo

Stucky: Second Concerto for Orchestra, for which he received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music. It was written for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, a team that Stucky worked closely with over a long period of time. While the Concerto is not based on any extra-musical images, it is very much a result of this collaboration, which Stucky signals both with musical references and in the title of the first movement: ‘Overture (with Friends)’.