Revolution: Flute Concertos

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2015
Catalogue No: 2564627678
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 73 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

16th March 2015
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2015

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Devienne: Flute Concerto No. 7 in E minor

Work length17:54

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini

I. Allegro

Track length8:19

II. Adagio

Track length4:18

III. Rondo [Allegretto]

Track length5:17

Gianella: Flute Concerto No. 1 in D minor

Work length18:27

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini

I. Allegro

Track length8:15

II. Adagio

Track length4:29

III. Allegro

Track length5:43

Gluck: Flute Concerto in G major, Op. 4

Work length13:22

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini

I. Allegro

Track length4:17

II. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length4:56

III. Presto

Track length4:09

Ignace Joseph Pleyel: Flute Concerto in C Major, B. 106

Work length23:21

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini

I. Allegro

Track length12:37

II. Adagio

Track length5:51

III. Rondo [Allegro molto]

Track length4:53

About
Reviews
Videos
Explore

About

Recording of the Week, Music from principal woodwind players of the Berlin Philharmonic

16th March 2015

Katherine enjoys solo albums from not one but three of the Berlin Philharmonic's finest wind players.

Widely recognised as the finest flautist performing on the world stage today, Emmanuel Pahud has joined forces with the Kammerorchester Basel, led by Giovanni Antonini, to record a programme of flute concertos by composers from the time of the French Revolution. The album, which brings together rarities by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ignaz Pleyel, François Devienne and Luigi Gianella, reveals how the form and the instrument underwent their own musical revolution during this tumultuous period.

For his latest release, Pahud delves once again into the history and evolution of the flute in the second half of the 18th century, following the success The Flute King, his 2012 album of music written for and by the Prussian king and gifted flautist-composer Frederick the Great. ‘Pahud is outstanding…A fascinating snap-shot of the mid-18th century Berlin court,’ BBC Music Magazine enthused.

Pahud now continues on this path from Frederick the Great to the French Revolution, capturing the drama and excitement of the political upheaval that surrounded what was a golden age in music, particularly for the flute. “For me, this album is about taking you on a journey via three decades of flute concertos surrounding the events of the famous storming of the Bastille in 1789, in what was a rapid transition from Gluck’s musical idiom, shaped by opera and the Baroque – his concerto here embodies Paris before the revolution – to the Romantic and revolutionary ideal that we hear in the music that follows,” Pahud explains.

“In choosing to structure this album around these remarkable concertos, I had the great fortune of having Giovanni Antonini and the Kammerorchester Basel as partners – they defend this music with fighting spirit and a truly revolutionary fervour!”

Reviews

June 2015

[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who shapes the music's contours and highlights the pulsating rhythms, surging climaxes and driving energy that enhance its insurgent spirit.

June 2015

[the Devienne is] played with a joyful verve that…closely resembles Pahud's teacher Alain Marion…a most attractive disc and thoughtfully presented, too.

16th March 2015

[The works] range from the poised rococo world of Gluck’s undated Concerto to the more ‘Sturm und drang’ style of Francois Devienne and a charmingly urbane, eclectic offering from Pleyel (be warned: I’ve had the Finale as an ear-worm for three days solid!).

Videos

An error occurred.

Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.

Revolution: Flute Concertos

CD

Contents

Recording of the Week, Music from principal woodwind players of the Berlin Philharmonic

Download queue