…what a masterstroke from pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu to place three substantial tableaux from Catalogue d’Oiseaux between other bird-inspired pieces: the little mystery of Schumann’s “Bird as Prophet”, Ravel’s “Oiseaux tristes” and the world premiere of three of Fu’s own startling paraphrases from Respighi’s The Birds, Messiaenizing Respighisation of Rameau, Pasquini and Gallot.
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[Photo: Clive Barda]
