Since you are interested in Spellbound, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CALDINI / BACK / CARTER / BOISMORTIER / BRAUN / COATES / von CALL / BORTZ
Solo Flute - From A to Z Volume 2 Sharon Bezaly (flute) [ BIS / CD - released 15/Jul/2003 ] Sharon Bezaly, recently named the Cannes Classical Award Young Artist of the Year, returns with the second volume in what the American Record Guide has described as "one of the most interesting series going". |
NICOLAS BACRI
Sturm und Drang Sharon Bezaly (flute) François Leleux (oboe) Riitta Pesola (cello) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] This highly accessible, colourful and melodic music is here interpreted by the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Jean-Jacques Kantorow, a team whose previous recordings on BIS have been enthusiastically received by the reviewers. A disc of works by... |
ULJAS PULKKIS
Enchanted Garden Sharon Bezaly (flute) Jaakko Kuusisto (violin) / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra / Susanna Malkki [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2007 ] In spite of his youth, Uljas Pulkkis (b. 1975) is firmly established in Finnish music. A number of his compositions have won prizes in competitions, such as the Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels (for 'Tears for Ludovico') and the Gustav Mahler... |
AHO / TOMASSON / LINDBERG
Nordic Spell - Concertos for Flute and Orchestra Sharon Bezaly (flute) Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Svenska Kammarorkestern, Christian Lindberg (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Tómasson’s concerto is a joy to listen to, as is the entire disc." (Gramophone) |
PROKOFIEV / SCHUBERT / DUTILLEUX / JOLIVET
Masterworks for Flute and Piano Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Ronald Brautigam (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] "On the evidence of this sensational disc, it seems clear that Sharon Bezaly is a flutist virtually without peer in the world today. Here we have four genuine masterpieces that make a lovely program together, all really written for flute and piano,... |
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE
Flute Concerto / Symphony No. 2 / Rapture Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Accessible, expressive American music in taut, well prepared performances. In the more rapid passages of the Flute Concerto… Sharon Bezaly's extrovert virtuosity will dazzle…" Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 |
RODRIGO / BORNE / IBERT
Flute Concertos - Bridge across the Pyrenees Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] "There is absolutely nothing here to criticize. Sharon Bezaly is one of the world's top flutists; the repertoire has been chosen with her usual intelligence and imagination; she plays the living daylights out of all of three pieces; the... |
GUBAIDULINA
The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair: concerto for flute and large orchestra / etc Sharon Bezaly (flute) Torleif Thedeen (cello) Mie Miki (accordion) / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Mario Venzago [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Overall, this is a technically superior disc in which an interesting new concerto, outstandingly performed by its dedicatee, is paired with an up to date edition of one of the composer’s most frequently recorded works. Duplication may limit its... |
ANTAL DORATI
Night Music for solo flute and small orchestra / Sette pezzi per orchestra / etc Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Aalborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Moshe Atzmon [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] one of the finest conductors of his times |
DEBUSSY / ZHOU LONG / FRANK BRIDGE / GLAZUNOV
Seascapes Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui (with Sharon Bezaly, alto flute/piccolo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "This well-filled disc is a real cracker. The programme is well chosen and once again it seems BIS have pulled off a sonic and artistic coup." (MusicWeb July 2007) |