FLUTE MYSTERY | Philharmonia Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy (2L) Nominated for a Grammy Award in the category «Best surround sound album» at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (2010). The album is worldwide available as Digital Album and as CD/SACD & Pure Audio Blu-ray in one box. — The Flute Concerto is the beautiful four-movement centerpiece plotted along the Romantic vein yet spectacularly orchestrated with harp, glass harmonica, tubular bells and organ. It opens with the dramatic and expressive "Memento" and finishes with the plaintive «Awakening». The two middle movements are intriguingly related. The restless tremolo string motive at the end of the «Reminiscence» is picked up in the opening of the «Obituary» yet the moods are a contrast of haunting lyricism and whimsical delights. Welsh-born Emily Beynon, principal flutist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam to whom the work was dedicated, does perfect justice to the piece. I find her playing most compelling in the two contrasting middle movements. The expansive solo in «Reminiscence» is like a sad solitary bird in the deep forest which turns into a carefree soul soaring above unsettling waves of destiny in «Orbituary». 6moons.com (album review) Sheet music: http://www.fjb.space/publishing/work/1183395756 Image text: Emily Beynon recording «Flute Concerto No.1» Op.70 at Watford Colosseum, UK. #EmilyBeynon #flute #CatherineBeynon #harp #VladimirAshkenazy #PhilharmoniaOrchestra #FlintJuventinoBeppe #fluteconcerto #2L #Grammy2015 (hier: Watford Colosseum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE8raKCCMtp/?igshid=1cv64e2p79y4w