It is a nice peg on which to hang a programme—that of music by an employer (Frederick the Great of Prussia) and three of his employees every item of which was first played by the King himself. Quantz ...

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by the charismatic Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki, will perform the world premiere of GRAMMY Award-nominated American composer Lowell Liebermann's Flute Concerto ...

A celebration of some of Mozart's greatest woodwind concertos, in Claudio Abbado's 80th birthday year. Drive Featured Album, 22 April 2013. If this album is anything to go by, there's a reason ...

When Marin Alsop slipped on a bathroom floor last month in Brazil, injuring her hand and forcing her to cancel her conducting duties at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, people went, “Uh oh ...

Flautist Juliette Hurel is a solid player with vibrant musicality. She had a challenging evening with Mozart's Concerto No 1 in G and Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto. The Mozart piece was graceful but ...

The Vivaldi flute concerto discovered last year in the National Archives of Scotland is now available for download, having been recorded by Gramophone Award-winning ensemble La Serenissima and Baroque ...

American composer Christopher Rouse's five-movement Flute Concerto takes inspiration in its outer movements, both titled Amhrán, from Enya. The second and fourth movements are both busy (one a march, ...

In theory this disc should be an absolute winner. The works for flute and clarinet are the only two concertos Nielsen lived to complete from a plan to compose one for each of the members of the ...

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