Serie: Hong Kong International Flute Festival
Closing Concert
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Hong Kong International Flute Festival Gala Concert – A FLUTIST TRAVELOGUE
Travelling around the world is about experiencing different cultures, knowing histories and heritages of different origins. Flutists and musicians have the privilege to encounter these treasures through performing different compositions all around the world. Concerts are like journeys and performers are like tour guides. They guide the audience through different cultures and places.In this year’s Hong Kong International Flute Festival Gala Concert, we invited flutists from all around the globe to travel through past to present and east to west with you!
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GALA Concert
REDEFINING FLUTE is a flute recital with different genres of flute music from classics to contemporary music. Public always presumes flute as an elegant instrument and as “the bird” in the instrumental family. However, flute has more possibilities to offer than just being a “bird”! In this concert, let us guide you through all those known and unknown perspective of the flute and redefine its elegance!
Program includes:
Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881) – Variations on the Carnival of Venice, Op. 78
Claudio Ambrosini (1948) – Classifying the Thousand Shortest Sounds in the World (2012) for flute solo written for Federica Lotti
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – 12 Variations on “Ah vous dirais-je, Maman”, K.265 (1781-82) arr. for flute quartet and piano
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) – Dialogo Angelico for two flutes (1948)
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) – Concerto for two flutes and orchestra arr. for flute orchestra, G.1077 (1793)
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