(2001) Romantic Flute Concertos nbr_cd:Booklet Through this collection

Through this collection

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volume 1 with Irish pianist Finghin Collins (the competition winner in 1999) was met with a wave of accolades and earned some of the most eminent awards from the press (Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice Award

also came from opera composers

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(2001) Romantic Flute Concertos nbr_cd:Booklet Through this collectionThe 19th century was not very productive in terms of flute music, and very few flute concertos were written during this period. Carl Gottlieb Reissiger and Carl Reinecke were the only composers of some stature to have written works for the transverse flute, without themselves being flautists. Carl Gottlieb Reissiger was born in Belzig in 1798 and came to Leipzig in 1811 to attend the Thomasschule. He continued his studies in Vienna with Salieri and in