Fazıl Say’s new album of French keyboard music takes its name – Oiseaux tristes (Sad birds) – from a movement of Maurice Ravel’s suite Miroirs. Additionally Debussy’s Suite bergamasque which of course contains the gently luminous ‘Clair de lune’. Closing the album is a set of five descriptively named pieces by François Couperin!
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