"THE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING" is a tiny fairy-tale of a piece for solo flute written by Denmark's best-known composer Carl Nielsen in 1920 as incidental music for a play called "The Mother." The whimsical music is a tip of the cap to Hans Christian Andersen and sounds like kids on playground on a spring day--leaping and laughter and teasing and taunting with a mix of sun and clouds.
Georg Philip Telemann, Fantaisie No. 12
Claude Debussy, Syrinx
Carl Nielsen, The Children are Playing
All flute piece performed by Karen Kevra
Frank Loesser, I'm Hans Christian Andersen performed by Danny Kaye
Artwork: Sibylle von Olfers, Mother Earth and Her Children