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Clidat’s sensitive recording of yet another example of Liszt’s rudimentary/early impressionism - his first Légende. While writing, Liszt had in mind the charming story of Francis of Assisi, who beheld the multitude of birds which filled the wayside and was moved to preach to them. “And forwith those which were in the trees came around him, and not one moved during the whole sermon; nor would they fly away until the Saint had given them his blessing.“ Certainly an evocative story, and Liszt has matched it w
