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- Jacques Ibert
Concerto for Flute (1935)
- Alphonse Leduc (World)
- 2222/2100/timp/str
- Flute and Piano
- Flute
- 28 min
- 2nd December 2023, Bankhead Theater, Livermore, CA, United States of America
- 14th December 2023, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester, United Kingdom
Programme Note
Jacques Ibert's Concerto for Flute, written for the legendary Marcel Moyse, starts out by highlighting the soloist's extraordinary lithe fluency, as well as the subtlety of the composer's orchestral writing. The composer accompanies the soloist with light colour effects and allows him to dialogue with all the orchestra sections. The concerto also gives pride of place to the flute's eminently elegiac nature, in unison with that of Ibert himself. In this concerto, Jacques Ibert achieves a delicate balance between musical effervescence and formal conciseness.