Instrument: Flute

The second of Talea’s belated Berio birthday concerts includes strong performances of the Sequenze for flute and viola in the wake of a last-minute shuffle.

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London Sinfonietta explodes fixed views of Boulez

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Roy Westbrook, 05 Oct

Pierre Boulez died in 2016, but on this evidence of this exploration into …explosante-fixe…, his music will live on.

*****

At Festival Ravel: tilting at windmills

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Mark Pullinger, 03 Sep

Don Quixote provides the inspiration for songs by Ravel and Ibert, the high point of a bitty programme in contrast to an early evening recital which followed the perfect trajectory.

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Morlot returns to lead Seattle Symphony’s season-closing showcase

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Thomas May, 19 Jun

Two rhapsodies anchor a program that ranges from brass-driven bravura to Ravel’s iridescent orchestral color. Seattle Symphony closes its season with breadth, nuance and elegant command from emeritus Ludovic Morlot.

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Nash Inventions: a sonic feast for six decades

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Christopher Woodley, 18 Mar

Martyn Brabbins and Claire Booth are among the Nash Ensemble's regular collaborators celebrating the group’s 60th Anniversary, marked by four world premieres.

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Three centuries of music from Andrew Manze and the SCO

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Simon Thompson, 14 Nov

A typically omnivorous programme from Manze and the SCO in which principal flautist André Cebrián dazzles in a Mozart concerto. But it was all nearly upstaged by a solo lament for the Valencia floods.

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Performers

Alin, Andreas Alonso, Carla Andrada de la Calle, Clara Barner, Susanne Becerra Thomsen, Joachim Belič, Martin Bircher, Katy Biscevic, Eleonora Bouriakov, Denis Brown, Rachel Campos, Pedro Lopez Carvalho, Ricardo Charles, Renaud Chase, Claire Clark, Kate Clarke, Wendy Coetzee, Kimi Dallmann, Franziska Davids, Brent Michael Davies, Gareth Davis, Prudence Díez, Néstor Farroni, Christian Feller, Bart Fluch-Latini, Birgit Friend, Lisa Gayet, Manon Girardin, Olivier Helgadóttir, Kristjana Hirte, Flavia Holt, Rachel Holz, Celina Hurel, Juliette Hutchins, Timothy Höskuldsson, Stefán Ragnar Ivanova, Elizaveta Joachim, Nathalie Karapanos, Stathis Kim, Sooyun Kim, Yubeen Koch, Daniela Kofler, Michael Martin Krausz, Tami Lamb{flute}, Eric Landarrabilco, Emma Lefebvre de Rieux, Anastasie Linortner, Renate Lozano, Alethia López, Aitana Maharaj, Meera Martín, Jaime Martínez Bonfill, Paula Matsuki, Saya McGill, Demarre Minter, Sally Miyazaki, Chika O'Toole, Luke Ophèle, Emmanuelle Ostrý, Jan Pahud, Emmanuel Paponiu, Blair Francis Rasmussen, Zoe Riikonen, Anna Robb, Anthony Rose, Claudia Salvadó, Martina Schmidt-Casdorff, Michael Schricke, Liselotte Schöllhorn, Janine Schütz, Karl-Heinz Shephard, Eliza Silvi, Edoardo Solomon, Ashley Stein, Claudia Stone, Beth Sutherland, Rowland Szabó, Rozália Tomaschitz, Stefan Trionfo, Anthony Unknown Vermeeren, Marjolein Vidovich, Helen Vodovozova, Aliya Walsh, Sinéad Weber, Jelka Wiese, Henrik Wittiber, Sebastian Yuan Hi