L'Oiseau Innumerable

"Tharaud hurls himself into the frenzies of Pecou's L'Oiseau Innumerable 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... the perfect starting point for an adventurous new listener"
(William Dart NZ Herald)

For Thierry Pécou, to live is to travel, and to travel is to write, as if to compose were at once to plunge into another universe, to take affective possession of the space, and, above all, to stand back and choose to live in the margins of one's everyday cultural milieu. The works presented on this CD bear witness to a constantly renewed artistic standpoint; they have been entrusted here to the expert fingers of another great traveller . . .