Revolution - Flute Concertos

Revolution - Flute Concertos

• Revolution - Flute Concertos
• Product type: ABIS MUSIC
• Brand: Plg Classics Warner

Widely recognized 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 program of music by composers from the time of the French Revolution. The album, which brings together flute concertos by Francois Devienne, Luigi Gianella, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ignaz Pleyel, reveals how rapidly the form evolved during this tumultuous period. Revolution follows the huge success of The Flute King and Around the World.<br>The last years of the 18th century were not only a time of huge political upheaval across Europe but also a golden age of compositions for the flute, with the arrival in Paris of many foreign musicians, the rise of the phenomenon of the virtuoso and of public concerts attracting audiences from different social strata, the influences of the Enlightenment and of the Mannheim School and the newly-founded Paris Conservatoire serving as crucibles for creativity.