(FR) Jean Cassignol News: "PAGANINI -- 3 New Caprices for recorder or...
(From the latest Jean Cassignol newsletter 15 may 2012) The complete 24 Caprices op. 1 Arranged for treble (alto) recorder or transverse flute by Jean Cassignol Jean-Claude Soldano (France) publisher...
View ArticleChristos Hatzis
Greek-Canadian composer Christos Hatzis is one of those people I like to refer to as “acquaintances of happenstance”, because I’d never heard his name uttered before until I saw it attached to a list...
View ArticleA guide to Luciano Berio's music
This week, a composer whose labyrinthine music admits as much of the world as he can cram into itWhat are the limits of a musical instrument? And what are the boundaries of a piece of music? Is an...
View Articleteachers and students: transmission versus copying
Gustav Leonhardt’s transcription of J.S. Bach’s Ciaccona Musical transmission is a well-explored topic in the history of Western music. In a rare filmed appearance, pianist Edwin Fischer recited, more...
View ArticleHenri Dutilleux obituary
One of France's leading composers, he used colour, harmony and form to magical effectHenri Dutilleux, who has died aged 97, was the outstanding French composer between Messiaen and Boulez and, like...
View ArticleCarl Nielsen Competition Day 1
So here I am in Odense, Nielsen's birthplace, in the Radisson Blu HCA (HC Andersen's birth place too) - with an enormously distinguished group of flautists on the jury, eight of them, and me.......we...
View ArticleJury day off - but............
This evening we have a concert by the jury - less the one non flute playing member! Above you see them this morning rehearsing a piece by Edison Denisov for eight flutes - variations on the Priests'...
View ArticleJury concert
There was a spectacular concert by the eight flautist members of the jury yesterday evening - pure joyful music making by eight star players totally endowed with enthusiasm and joy, as well as skills...
View ArticleFinal result!
Saturday is market day in front of the Concert Hall in Odense - and so it was this morning when I went out for another walk about in this delightful place. But the focus of the day was the finals...
View ArticlePodcast: Capturing the captivating
Raymond Bisha introduces the first instalment of the Naxos series of flute concertos by François Devienne, the 18th-century composer-performer who laid the foundations of the French school of flute...
View ArticleWitt: Symphonies & Flute Concerto
Friedrich Witt (1770-1837) Symphony in C major "Jena" (1793) Symphony in A major (1790) Flute Concerto in G major, Op. 8 (1806) Patrick Gallois, Flute & Conductor Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla...
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