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The most famous depiction of a swan in music may be that by Saint-Saëns in his Carnival of the animals, but it’s by no means unique. Cellist Mats Lidström and his pianist son Leif Kaner-Lidström have taken it as the starting point of Swans, a homage to Saint-Saëns and a fascinating collection of swannish meditations. We encounter swans from the seventeenth century (by Orlando Gibbons) and the twenty-first (both Mats and Leif contribute their own original compositions); there are Polish swans by Szymanowski, Brazilian ones by Villa-Lobos and many others—no fewer than twenty-four in all, which take graceful flight in Mats’s sympathetic arrangements.