Work: Oiseaux exotiques, for orchestra

Three contrasting 20th-century masterworks were judiciously crafted and insightfully honed by the Orchestre Symphonique of Montreal and their music director Kent Nagano.

Birtwistle’s Responses poses more questions than it answers, but Aimard’s Messiaen was a triumph. 

Joanna MacGregor's 'Exotic Birds', in an imaginatively programmed Auckland Philharmonia concert, gets our reviewer all aflutter.