🇫🇷Olivier Messiaen ： Livre d’oiseaux Le Merle bleu

The third piece in Messiaen’s Catalogue of the Birds, this piano work focuses on the blue rock thrush. Fine movements of sound suggest the bird’s calls, while a sense of surrounding nature emerges through contrasting stillness and expansive resonance. Its appeal lies not only in the shaping of melodic ideas, but also in changes of register, rhythm, and lingering resonance. In performance, keep the individual notes and ornamental gestures light and distinct, while avoiding haste and listening carefully to the rests and reverberation. Adjust the pedal from passage to passage so that the sonorities remain clear, and express the bird’s presence and the stillness of the surrounding space as part of a single flow.