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In a fast and furious performance, Yevgeniy Milyavskiy was the extreme example of this, bringing a massive sound to the reed warbler’s massive world.

The huge central movement, the one that can last over a half-hour, represents 27 hours in the life of the reed warbler.

Messiaen provided florid descriptions of the movements, and in this one the reed warbler is the great orator of his local lily pond.

Frogs croak, a skylark soars above all in dazzling pianistic glitter, grasshopper warblers rattle as their names suggest, and one reed warbler enters into a rapturous contrapuntal duet with another.

Migration ecologist Sissel Sjöberg had long wondered how tiny birds like the great reed warbler can make it across long expanses of water or desert on their epic migrations.