GRAMOPHONE Review: ‘Pájaros Mágicos’ Stravinsky The Firebird Suite · Villa-Lobos Uirapuru – Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Dudamel

🫧 Open on Bubbles Two mythical birds – the one immortalised by Villa-Lobos – Uirapuru – an endangered species in our musical universe. All kudos to Dudamel for realising the songful connections with it and Stravinsky’s Firebird and rejoicing in them so wholeheartedly. They were written within a decade of each other and you might even say that in the rarely heard Villa-Lobos ballet Stravinsky’s immortal bird was reborn in the Brazilian rain forest. Its ear-wormy chant, heard across flute and soprano saxophon