01. - 05. Jose Serebrier - Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) [22'12]
06. Adina Izarra - Pitangus Sulphuratus. Concerto for flute and strings (1987, rev. 2007) [15'05]
07. Carl Vine - Flute Concerto 'Pipe Dreams' (2003) [14'53]
08. - 10. Alberto Ginastera - Impresiones de la Puna (1934) [6'57]
Sharon Bezaly- flute, Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Tognetti
BIS CD1789 [recorded October 2009; digital download released 2012]
[digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall of the ABC’s Ultimo Centre, Sydney
Recording engineer: Thore Brinkmann; Producer: Robert Suff
Uruguayan conductor and composer Jose Serebrier was commissioned by BIS owner Robert von Bahr to write his Flute Concerto with Tango for Sharon Bezaly (von Bahr's current wife). It's a virtuoso work-out for the flute soloist and tango refers to the sultry final movements.
Carl Vine's Pipe Dreams is equally virtuosic in its conception and colours. Written for flautest Emmanuel Pahud, it is a rhapsodic answer to the question "What might a flute dream, if it could dream?".
In Pitangus Sulphuratus, Venezuelan Adina Izarra paraphrases the song of the yellow and brown bird of the title to help evoke lazy afternoons in her native Caracas. And Argentinian Alberto Ginastera's Impresiones de la Puna makes characteristic use of the folk songs and dance rhythms of the high Andean plateau.
Israeli-Swedish flautist Sharon Bezaly recorded this collection during an Australian tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and demonstrates her fabulous technical and musical prowess in all of these works - with perfect intonation and warm tone. Unusually for BIS the recorded sound is a bit cold and brittle at times.