Standing ovations in Cincinnati and Den Haag for Mozart and Aho
Sharon has made her début with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi playing Mozart Flute Concerto in D major with Kalevi Aho’s Cadenza, and the Andante in C major.
Both concerts were received with standing ovations.
The Enquirer wrote:
'Bezaly’s sound on her 24 Carat gold flute was pure and bright and her phrasing in the concerto had a spirit and life that is rare.
The Andante was enchanting. Järvi kept textures light in the orchestra, and their collaboration sparkled.'
As the Residentie’s Orchestra in Den Haag first wind player Artist in Residence, Sharon has made her first appearances with the orchestra playing the Aho Flute Concerto under the baton of Leif Segerstam and receiving standing ovations for both concerts.
Silk, Gold and Pearls: Sharon Bezaly plays Aho in Bern
“Whoever listens to the Israeli flautist playing on her golden flute immediately wishes to compose a piece just for her”, writes the Swiss newspaper Der Bund after Sharon Bezaly's two performances with the Berner Symphony Orchestra under Arvo Volmer in Bern last week. Finnish composer Kalevi Aho has done just that and added a wonderful concerto to the ever-growing list of works dedicated to Sharon. She premiered the composition with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä in November 2003 and with last week's concerts the work now found its way to Bern for the first time. “With amazing agility she mastered the demanding melodical runs, climbed the highest heights and played pearly cadenzas in the middle movement as if it was the easiest thing in the world”, comments the Berner Zeitung.
More reviews from Bern can be found on the "Quotes" page.
RESIDENCY WITH THE RESIDENTIE
Sharon Bezaly has just been announced as the first wind instrumentalist to have a Residency with the Residentie Orkest in the Haague, Netherlands. The Residency opens this coming October and will feature Sharon Bezaly in concerts over three periods in works ranging from Nielsen, Aho and Rodrigo. She will perform with conductors Jaap van Zweden, Josep Pons as well as the orchestra’s chief conductor, Neeme Järvi
RESIDENCY WITH THE RESIDENTIE
Sharon Bezaly has just been announced as the first wind instrumentalist to have a Residency with the Residentie Orkest in the Haague, Netherlands. The Residency opens this coming October and will feature Sharon Bezaly in concerts over three periods in works ranging from Nielsen, Aho and Rodrigo. She will perform with conductors Jaap van Zweden, Josep Pons as well as the orchestra’s chief conductor, Neeme Järvi
RESIDENCY WITH THE RESIDENTIE
Sharon Bezaly has just been announced as the first wind instrumentalist to have a Residency with the Residentie Orkest in the Haague, Netherlands. The Residency opens this coming October and will feature Sharon Bezaly in concerts over three periods in works ranging from Nielsen, Aho and Rodrigo. She will perform with conductors Jaap van Zweden, Josep Pons as well as the orchestra’s chief conductor, Neeme Järvi
DIAPASON CATALOGUE COVER ARTIST
The leading French magazine, Diapason, has chosen Sharon Bezaly as their cover artist for their 2007 catalogue of recordings. Not only is this move a huge honour, it also gives huge prominence to Sharon as the catalogue is distributed throughout France. Diapason recently described Sharon Bezaly as the “Pagainini of the Flute“
JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
The music of Sofia Gubaidulina
BBC Symphony Orchestra January Composer Weekend
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 January 2007
Barbican, BBC Radio 3
For its twentieth annual January Composer Weekend, the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the mystical and contemplative music of Sofia Gubaidulina in January 2007.
Top artists associated with her work including Sharon Bezaly, Valery Gergiev, Gidon Kremer and Friedrich Lips take part and, for the first time, the BBC Symphony Orchestra has invited fellow Barbican-based Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, to participate
The January Composer Weekend includes premieres of her most recent work. There’s the world premiere of the complete Triptych “Nadeyka”, written in memory of her daughter who died in 2004. It comprises three works which each receive their UK premieres here: a violin concerto and flute concerto each composed specifically for this concert’s soloists, Gidon Kremer and Sharon Bezaly, and an energetic orchestral work inspired by Pushkin.
Reviewing the concert The Times wrote:“No wonder she magnetises star soloists ... Sharon Bezaly, flautist extraordinaire, proved extraordinary...
Read the BBC press release here
NEW GENERATION, NEW REPERTOIRE
– an interview with flautist Sharon Bezaly
Fresh up on Classicalsource.com is an indepth interview with Sharon Bezaly which coincides with a number of upcoming high profile dates in the UK. In the profile Julian Maynard-Smith writes:
Imagine you had the chance to talk to a youthful Vladimir Horowitz or David Oistrakh before the entire world woke up to them, and found yourself gabbling to your friends about this extraordinary young talent you’d had the privilege of talking to – only to have blank looks or a muted 'that’s interesting'. That’s how it feels talking about the astonishing young Israeli flautist Sharon Bezaly. You want to grab your friends by the shoulders and say 'No, listen to me: when I say astonishing I mean creating-history-as-we-speak good. It’s spelt B-e-z-a-l-y. Remember this name'.
If this sounds like hyperbole, consider the following. Sharon Bezaly started the flute aged eleven, and a mere three years later debuted as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Her recordings have collected top ratings throughout Europe: Editor’s Choice from Gramophone, Diapason d’Or, Choc de la Musique from Le Monde de la Musique, and Stern des Monats from FonoForum – to name but four. The ecstatic reviews include quotes such as 'God’s gift to the flute' (The Times), 'a flutist virtually without peer...' (Classics Today) and 'la più grande flautista della sua generazione' (Musica). The comparisons with Horowitz and Oistrakh are not mine but Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Monde de la Musique went as far as describing her as 'un Paganini de la flûte'.
Read the full interview at classicalsource.com
SHARON BEZALY ON TOUR IN GERMANY
In December Sharon Bezaly rounded off the year with a tour of Germany performing Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp K 299 with Julie Palloc and the Camerata Salzburg. This was an especially exciting encounter since Sharon used to be the Camerata's first flautist between 1995 and 1997. Starting with a private concert Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the German tour kicked off in Würzburg Sharon and the Camerata Salzburg went on to play in Mannheim, Wiesbaden and Aachen and concluded their tour with a final concert at the Philharmonie Essen.
The tour was a sell out success and Bezaly's performance prompted the Mannheimer Morgen to comment "All the attention is drawn to Sharon Bezaly as she creates this unbelievably warm, mild, velvety tone and, with an unmistakable sense of balance, lets it float just an inch above the orchestra. At the same time she can be so subtle with the melodic line that it blends with the strings or delicately shines through as a coloured filigree ... After Mozart’s Double Concerto KV299 and the Mendelssohn Encore "Auf den Flügeln des Gesangs“ the appetite for the Duo Sharon Bezaly and Julie Palloc was not even nearly satisfied.“
Read Tour review highlights here
BRIDGE ACROSS THE PYRENEES
With her ambitious new release on BIS, Sharon Bezaly has turned her attention towards the hispanic sounds and flavours as evoked by Rodrigo, Ibert and Francois Borne. Separated by the Pyrenees, the music of Spain and France seemed to have practically no cross germination until Bizet’s opera Carmen which opened the ears of the French to Spanish rhythms and inflections. On this disc, Carmen – in the guise of Borne's Fantaisie brillante – plays a similar role, creating a bridge between Rodrigo's Concierto pastoral and Ibert's Flute Concerto, two of last century's main concertante works for the flute.
Sharon Bezaly’s recent release of Mozart flute concertos not only gained worldwide critical acclaim but also saw sales of over 150 0000 copies worldwide. Meanwhile her album entitled “Masterworks for Flute and Piano“ continues to receive excellent reviews and was featured on BBC Radio 3’s flagship programme “CD Review“ on 14 October alongside an extensive interview with Sharon about her recording career to date.
FEATURES TO WATCH OUT FOR
Tying in with the release of her new album “Bridge across the Pyrenees“ Sharon Bezaly is the focus of major features which include the November issue of Classic FM Magazine (UK), December’s Gramophone (UK) and Musica (Italy).
The front cover story of Musica is introduced by Editor, Stephen Hastings, with the comment “For some time now Sharon Bezaly has appeared, without rival, as the leading flautist of her generation. Her latest disc – dedicated to the Concertos of Rodrigo and Ibert – illustrates her impeccable virtuoso whilst her enchanting and mature intrepretation continues to be as surprising as ever.“
LONDON REPORTS: BRIDGE OVER THE PYRENEES
Sharon Bezaly, who is currently in London recording for the BBC, appeared last Thursday (30th November) on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" where she performed and talked about her new album "Bridge over the Pyrenees".
The interview can be listened to on the web for the coming week at BBC Radio 3
On Saturday 25 November Sharon also appeared on Swedish national tv (SVT4) as one of the main guest's on the high-profile morning breakfast news with Lasse Bengtsson where she again performed and talked about the new album.
UPCOMING IN CONCERT
Sharon Bezaly has had a busy summer which included concerts at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Detmold and Verbier as well performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of Wales, the Helsinki Philharmonic and the St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra with Neeme Järvi. Most recently Sharon made a special apperance marking the UN Day at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia in a gala concert before the Cypriot President and the Diplomatic Core. Now Sharon Bezaly is gearing up for a concert tour with the Camerata Academica Salzburg this December which opens with a private concert at Vienna’s Musikverein and goes on to see performances of the Mozart flute and harp concerto alongside Julie Palloc throughout Germany. In January Sharon will perform Mozart’s flute concerto in D major with the Belgian National Orchestra and Mikko Franck (11,13 and 14 January).
On 12 January Sharon Bezaly participates in a special festival dedicated to the music of Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina together with Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Hall. Sharon Bezaly appears in this programme as soloist of the flute concerto “...The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair.“ The work, which was written for and dedicated to Sharon, is the central piece in a Triptych of compositions by Gubaidulina written in memory of her daughter who died in 2004. This unique London performance is also the world premiere of the complete Triptych.
For a complete listing of concert dates please visit the “concert schedule“ section on this site.
‘Unique, quirky and deeply human’ – Aho Première in The States
Sharon Bezaly has just returned from the USA where she gave three performances of Kalevi Aho's flute concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä, which marked the North American première of the work. The Star Tribune wrote ‘It's a big piece: three movements running about a half-hour. The flute, of course, is given a real workout, but, as is typical of Aho, the orchestra has a much bigger role than simply that of accompanist ... One could describe this as old-style Romanticism, but Aho's take on that old style is unique, quirky, modern -- maybe even post-modern -- and, for some reason, deeply human. Bezaly, with her light, airy, almost vibrato-free tone, played with impressive skill and commitment Friday night at Orchestra Hall’.
Friday night's concert was webcast live on Minnesota Public Radio and all three performances received standing ovations. The Pioneer Press, also reviewing the concert, commented that the work was ‘a rewarding challenge’ which ‘proved a strong showcase for Bezaly's artistry’.
Top Reviews for new Masterworks CD
Sharon Bezaly's new BIS recording with pianist Ronald Brautigam has so far received five star reviews from both Classic FM Magazine and the BBC Music Magazine – which also chose it as Chamber CD of the Month. Meanwhile France's Le Monde de la Musique has awarded the disc a "Choc de Mois" commenting "as usual Sharon Bezaly unfolds here her amazing playing, abounding in timbre and personal inventions". The programme for this recording features Prokofiev's Sonata in D major, Dutilleux's Sonatina and Jolivet's "Chant de Linos", focusing on three master-pieces of the 1940's all of which are offset against Schubert's great "Trockne Blumen" variations, composed some 120 years earlier.
Following are highlights of some of the reviews:
***** (Five Stars review)
Anyone who has yet to encounter the playing of the astonishing young flautist Sharon Bezaly should do do without delay. She makes a sensational sound, can play anything from Bach to contemporary, and mastered the art of circular breathing, making quick inhalations in the middle of long phrases a thing of the past. Prokofiev's Flute Sonata has never sounded so perkily seductive on disc, nor has Schubert's enchanting set of variatons given up its secrets so readily. With further musical enchantment from Dutilleux and Jolivet, plus Brautigam's sublime pianism, this is a compulively listenable disc.
--- Julian Haylock, May issue, Classic FM Magazine
Choc de Mois
As usual Sharon Bezaly unfolds here her amazing playing, abounding in timbre and personal inventions. The first movement of the Sonata op. 94 of Prokofiev shows it straight away. Its theme contains a small acceleration, which the flutist transforms into a dazzling charade. Certain characterized passages - small staccato ones in the low register (which she plays without any vibrato), large return legatos from the low to the high register, with a detached climax there - are each time the occasion to invent a so personal gesture, so perceived and virtuoso that what one hears is not a flute anymore. Like all really great interpreters, Sharon Bezaly succeeds in this technique, which precisely makes it possible "to transcend the instrument", giving the illusion to invent a timbre. The pianist Ronald Brautigam, well in phase with this “sorceress of the sounds”, particularly in the finale of Prokofiev, generates a generous and constant phrase, always committed … Meanwhile, a rare thing, she becomes one of the best current ambassadresses of the atonal languages, unfolding the music with her staggering personality, always maintaining a humane quality. Mozart is said to have disliked the flute. Certainly, Bezaly would answer, the flute is the instrument of the 20th century.
--- Jaques Amblard, May 2006, Choc de Mois, Le Monde de la Musique
‘A Breath of Fresh Air’ ***** (Five Star Review)
Chamber Music Choice of the Month
Historically the most frequent complaints about flute playing have been of shrillness, breathiness, excessive vibrato and a lack of tonal and dynamic variety. Sharon Bezaly sweeps any such criticisms aside with these vigorous, sensuous and sensitive performances that are spaciously recorded. Her tone is even throughout its range and even at fortissimo maintains a pure stream of sound with never a wobble. Occasionally we hear her breathe, but it’s never obtrusive ... Ronald Brautigam combines virtuosity with outstanding skills as an accompanist, leaving Bezaly both temporal and dynamic space where she needs it; and his left-hand comments in the first Schubert variation are a particular delight. Elsewhere, Prokofiev’s superb lyrical gifts are treasured in the D major Sonata, while at the other extreme our peace of mind is disturbed by the archaic wildness of Jolivet’s Chant de Linos. Somewhere between these two comes Dutilleux’s early Sonatina, a work he no longer likes or, really, wants to have performed. If any performance could change his mind, it would be this.
--- Roger Nichols, June issue 2006, BBC Music Magazine
The extraordinary circular breathing technique of the new star of the flute enables her to blow unbroken lines of a length that would make conventional players pass out. Indeed, the phrases of Prokofiev’s Op 94 sonata became better known under sweeping violin bows, but the original was for flute, and Bezaly, with the pianist Brautigam, repossesses the work with crisp, razor-edged and occasionally aggressive tone. She varies Schubert’s Variations on Trockne Blumen — a sad, often unnoticed, number towards the end of the Schöne Müllerin cycle — with colour and imagination, and delivers the cadenza in Dutilleux’s Sonatina with dictatorial eloquence. They are equal partners in Jolivet’s Chant de Linos, Bezaly flutter-tonguing like a bird, Brautigam challengingly pace-setting the inspiring march to the end.
--- Rick Jones, 31 March 2006, The Times
"The glowing richness of Sharon Bezaly's tone is immediately striking ... The Schubert Variations take as their theme the tragic "Trockne Blumen" from Die Schöne Müllerin with Schubert brilliantly transforming his original to end in a triumphant blaze of light. Bezaly is most persuasive, avoiding the sense that this a mere technical showpiece in even the most note-heavy variations. The Prokofiev Sonata, here reclaimed for the flute, is light and fast on its feet ... Bezaly is particularly effective in the Scherzo, taken at lightning speed, with the upward glissandi impeccably played, while she makes much of the exoticism of the sinuous middle section. In the Andante she plays the throaty seductress to perfection. The Dutilleux Sonata dates from the same year (1943) and is a tightly knit three-movement structure originally designed as a test piece for the Paris Conservatoire. The composer has long dismissed it but it's easy to hear why it remains so popular among flautists, especially in this intensely felt performance, Bezaly darting from bar to bar in the animé finale, as if eluding capture.“
--- Harriet Smith, June issue, Gramophone
Sharon Bezaly plays with a crystal clear, resonant tone, impeccable intonation and technique and tastefully timed vibrato. She and Ronald Brautigam have an almost supernatural sympathy together, and the Prokofiev goes off like a smart rocket, hitting all the right heartstrings and knocking the competition into the proverbial cocked hat at the same time. Both players come up trumps at each turn of this familiar masterpiece, and while such music is almost impossible to render as an absolutely definitive performance I can’t imagine a better one ... For the most modern sounding work on this album we come to Jolivet’s Chant de Linos, whose title refers to the legend of Linos ... This piece has lyrical, doloroso passages at its centre and a modal feel which manages to juxtapose the archaic with a modern idiom. The most spectacular passages are of course a breeze for Bezaly and Brautigam, and it is a delight to hear this work played so well.
--- Dominy Clements, April 2006, www.musicweb-international.com
On Stage with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert
On 9 March 2006 Sharon Bezaly played Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert at Stockholm’s Konserthus. The five movement work which spans nearly 30 minutes was written in 1993 and harks back to Christopher Rouse’s Gaelic roots through its simple melodic elaborations for the solo flute over the accompanying orchestral strings in the first and last movements. Bezaly’s performance was hailed by the Svenska Dagbladet which wrote “Sharon Bezaly was impressive in her sensitive playing of the dawdling, dreamlike outer movements, whilst her warm golden tone was sharpened in the harder "Alla marcia“. There is a feminine poetic liveliness in her playing - both bodily and soulwise. A huge success ...“
From Stockholm to the States and Japan, Sharon Bezaly now prepares herself to take two other new Flute Concertos on tour this coming May - Kalevi Aho’s concerto (dating from 2002) which she will play with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, and performances of Sofia Gubaidulina’s concerto (2005) with the Osaka Philharmonic. Both works were written for and premiered by Sharon Bezaly.
Sharon Bezaly awarded Cannes Classical Award at Midem
Sharon Bezaly's recording "Nordic Spell" was awarded the prize for contemporary CD of the year at the prestigious Midem Classical Awards which took place in Cannes on 24th January. This award joins the overwhelming accolade which "Nordic Spell" has received since its release on BIS in 2005 and which features new concertos dedicated to her by 3 Scandinavian composers. Sharon Bezaly - who was in Cannes to collect the award - played to a packed house at the award ceremony and gave numerous interviews to the international press the following day.
The Midem Classical Awards are the only international awards dedicated exclusively to honouring classical music in all its forms. A prestigious international jury, made up of key specialised media and affiliated organisations, includes – Radio Classique and Le Monde de la Musique (France), Gramophone (United Kingdom, United States), Fono Forum, Radio MDR-Figaro/ARD and Klassik.com (Germany), Crescendo and Radio Klara (Belgium), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), MusicManual and Musicchannel.cc (Austria), Musica (Italy), Scherzo (Spain), Gramofon (Hungary), Muzyka21 (Poland), International Artist Managers Association (IAMA) and Arts Magazine (United Kingdom) and the International Music & Media Centre (IMZ) (Austria).
Sharon Bezaly Included in an 'all times dream team'/Gramophone
In the December 2005 Gramophone (celebrating the magazine’s 1000th issue) the reviewing journalists were asked to choose the artists they would most like to hear in a dedicated concert. Sharon Bezaly was honoured with inclusion in the dream team list which comprised such legendary names as Sergei Rachmaninov, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz and Pablo Casals, Amongst the 33 musicians chosen Sharon Bezaly was one of only 7 living artists and had the added honour of being by far the youngest and the only wind player.
"Beguiling and Beautiful": Premiere of Sally Beamish hailed by The Herald
Within just a few hours of premiering Sally Beamish's new flute concerto in Glasgow, the composer and performers received the following accolade from Michael Tumelty in the Herald (28th October 2005): "Its a beguiling, beautiful piece written by a composer at the peak of her prowess, directed by a conductor at the top of his game and played by a flautist like no other."
Beamish's concerto entitled Callisto is further described by The Herald as "... a programmatic piece, with a good tale of gods, goddesses, jealousy, and transformation ... but is also an adventure in abstract music, an exquisite, instrumental narrative of atmospheres, moods, and changing characters, all stunningly evoked by Sharon Bezaly on the full range of flutes: regular, alto, bass and piccolo ... the music Beamish has conjured up for the platoon of wind instruments was rolled off with dexterity and ease by Bezaly.
Sharon Bezaly gives world première of a new concerto by Sally Beamish in Glasgow
“On 27 October a downbeat from Martin Brabbins will launch the Royal Scottish National Orchestra into the first phrase of a new flute concerto, Callisto by Sally Beamish” reports Classical Music, the UK magazine which featured Sharon Bezaly as their cover artist in their October issue. “Based on the Ovid tale of Metamorphosis, Callisto requires Bezaly to use all her flutes, swapping between them on stage” reports the article which also quotes Sally Beamish as saying “Sharon and I wanted to use several members of the flute family, including the alto, bass and piccolo, and this story transformation provides a natural opportunity to use the related instruments. It’s a kind of wordless opera, with the voice of the heroine changing subtly as the story develops. Sharon is an incredibly versatile and virtuosic player, with a stunningly individual voice. She has played a big part in my vision for the piece.”
Classical Music goes on to report: “This is not the first work that has been dedicated to Bezaly, and not even the first in 2005. In the last four years she had no fewer than 13 concertos and six pieces for solo flute dedicated to her. Of those 19 works, nine concertos and three pieces have been written or commissioned this year. She is in the process of premiering and recording these works at the moment, and is releasing several CDs of them on the BIS label … To have achieved this much is remarkable in itself, and to have done so in a matter of four years even more so.
Mozart to perfection
"Mozart to perfection" wrote The Observer about Sharon Bezaly’s new flute concerto recording on BIS whilst The Times wrote “Sharon Bezaly is God’s gift to the flute. She doesn’t appear to pause at all, and the range of tone colours applied would impress Van Gogh.“ With news that both the Mozart and Nordic Spell releases will receive prestigious Choc de la Musique awards in the November issue of Le Monde de la Musique both new recordings are proving a sensation.
Gramophone Magazine meanwhile – which awarded a top star review to Nordic Spell – gave equally high billing to Sharon’s approach to Mozart: “Dubbed in France ‘the Paganini of the flute’, likened to David Oistrakh and Vladimir Horowitz for her flair and virtuosity, Israeli flautist Sharon Bezaly follows her stunning disc of contemporary Nordic concertos with delectable performances of the familiar Mozart concertos … To both concertos, plus the two separate movements, Bezaly brings pure, delicately coloured tone – beautiful throughout its range – phenomenal agility and breath control, and an impish sense of fun.”
The BBC Music Magazine also gave the recording 5 stars saying "Bezaly's exquisite, technically immaculate, compelling playing sets new standards in this repertoire, as do Kalevi Aho's stunning cadenzas, composed especially for this recording. …her spellbinding artistry and that budget price tag currently sweep the board."
”Sharon Bezaly featured on the front cover of International Record Review
"... her mesmerising artistry has virtually redefined what most of us consider the flute capable of.... An exemplary release that deserves the widest possible circulation."
"it is impossible to imagine this beguiling performance ever being bettered"
International Record Review
Nordic Spell was awarded "RECORDING OF THE MONTH" in Musicweb International
"Wonderful stuff. BIS has been on a winner with Sharon Bezaly for some time now but this is surely the most splendid so far"...
Musicweb International
"10/10" - Nordic Spell
"The Aho in particular would make a splendid calling card for any enterprising flutist, and we can only hope that Bezaly receives many invitations to perform it abroad. It's that good, and so is she".
Classics Today
Saõ Paulo debut
Three exciting concerts for Sharon Bezaly with the Saõ Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling playing Rodrigo's Concierto Pastoral in the magnificent Sala Saõ Paulo and in Campos. (7/8/9. July 2005)
Kalevi Aho's new cadenzas for Mozart - written for and dedicated to Sharon Bezaly
The composer Kalevi Aho has written innovative cadenzas for Mozart's Flute Concertos in D major & G major, the Andante and the Rondo in D major. She will join the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra for a concert, playing the Mozart Concerto in G major & the Andante in D major on Saturday the 9th of April in Kokkola, Finland. The Concertos, the Andante and the Rondo will be recorded in surround sound by BIS.
"The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair"
Sharon Bezaly will première the new Flute Concerto written and dedicated to her by Sofia Gubaidulina together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by their chief conductor Mario Venzago
Concert dates:
Thursday 26. May 2005 at the Gothenburg concert Hall at 19.30
Friday 27. May 2005 at the Gothenburg Concert Hall at 19.30
The première will be recorded by the Swedish Radio, and will be aired on 3. June 2005
"From A-Z", receives rave reviews world wide
Sharon Bezaly's latest SACD, part of her acclaimed Solo series "From A-Z", receives sensational reviews world wide:
"Sharon Bezaly's 'A to Z' series for BIS strikes me as one of the most important and revelatory contemporary music series ever undertaken on disc."
International Record Review
"Chaque fois que je mets un CD de Sharon Bezaly dans mon lecteur, je frémis: je sais d'avance que l'écoute en sera excitante. Son nom est synonyme de promesse...“
Super Sonic award
Pizzicato
"I am insanely jealous of this incredible talent"
American Record Guide
"...dans l'interprétation bien entendu exceptionnelle de Bezaly,qui, tel un Paganini de la flûte, semble tout simplement étendre les possibilités de l'instrument."
Monde de la Musique
"Volume 3 of Sharon Bezaly's trail blazing 'A to Z' solo flute series focuses on the letter 'D', It also confirms Bezaly as one of the most sublimely gifted of flautists. In the wrong hands the sound of the flute can pall all too easily, but here Bezaly produces such a ravishing flow of velvet lined sonics, immaculately phrased (she has completely mastered the art of circular breathing) and intonationally spotless, that one is held spellbound simply by the sound that she makes.“
International Record Review
"Finally to Debussy’s Syrinx, that magnificent little piece full of sensuous promise that I’ve never heard played so convincingly".
Classical Music Web
Rodrigo Concierto Pastoral with Mikko Frank at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Sharon Bezaly will play Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto Pastoral for Flute and Orchestra with the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by Mikko Frank
Concert dates:
Friday 4. February 2005 at 20'00 - Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles
Saturday 5. February 2005 at 15'00 - Salle Philharmonique, Liège
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