Marc-André Dalbavie was a protégé of Pierre Boulez, but there is little evidence of his mentor's aesthetic in his Concerto for flute, except in the clarity and precision of its construction. It's a surprisingly lyrical work, full of elegant turns of phrase and impassioned melodies. Its harmonic language hovers between tonality and atonality, but its affect is largely post-Romantic; this is a work that offers strong and direct emotional appeal to audiences. Formally, it's fairly conventional, with fast-slow-fast movements ...
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Marc-André Dalbavie was a protégé of Pierre Boulez, but there is little evidence of his mentor's aesthetic in his Concerto for flute, except in the clarity and precision of its construction. It's a surprisingly lyrical work, full of elegant turns of phrase and impassioned melodies. Its harmonic language hovers between tonality and atonality, but its affect is largely post-Romantic; this is a work that offers strong and direct emotional appeal to audiences. Formally, it's fairly conventional, with fast-slow-fast movements that are played without a break, but its lyrical, sensuous slow section makes up about half of its length. Swiss composer Michael Jarrell's concerto ...un temps de silence... and German Matthias Pintscher's Transir operate in a similar sound world, but are overall a little more astringent, with a less broadly romantic effect. They are both full of intriguing orchestral sonorities, to which the flute contributes with a variety of extended techniques. Pintscher's concerto was written as...
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