August 2008
When fevers fade in the work's third movement, he and the fine musicians of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, under the able Andrea Quinn, create spooky and surreal atmospheres...
Thierry Pécou - L'Oiseau Innumérable
There was a time when a composer like Thierry Pecou would be fated to obscurity. Now you can google him, YouTube him or, better still, search out his new Harmonia Mundi CD featuring pianist Alexandre Tharaud... Tharaud hurls himself into the frenzies of Pecou's L'Oiseau Innumérable Concerto as if he was trying to break the prestissimo barrier. When fevers fade in the work's third movement, he and the fine musicians of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, under the able Andrea Quinn, create spooky and surreal atmospheres...