Flute, piano (solo: fl - 0.0.0.2.dble bsn - 3.3.0.0. - timp.perc(3) - hp - str)

SKU: BR.EB-8912

Dances with the Winds. Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Stockholm, May 4, 1974

Solo concerto; Music post-1945. Piano reduction. 40 pages. Duration 21'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8912. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8912).

ISBN 9790004185780. 9 x 12 inches.

The flute concerto 'Dances with the Winds' was composed in 1974 for the Swedish flautist Gunilla von Bohr, a specialist in all members of the flute family. The ordinary flute thus alternates with a bass flute at the beginning and end of the four-movement concerto, the second movement is assigned to the shrill piccolo and the third to the sensuous alto flute. The last movement is a summary of all the musical events in the concerto. At the end the bass flute soars to the top of its register, the note D acting as the pivot to many of the symmetries in the work, against a resigned B flat minor chord on the orchestra. (Einojuhani Rautavaara) CD: Patrick Gallois (flute), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Leif Segerstam ODE 921-2

World premiere: Stockholm, May 4, 1974 Additional to the original scoring for flute, piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute, the flute part in the piano reduction contains ossias for alto flute instead of the bass flute.