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Alto flute

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Jolivet André

Aitken, Robert

Amirov, Fikret

Amlin, Martin

Amram, David

Andriessen, Jurriaan

Arnold, Malcolm

Arrieu, Claude

Auric, Georges

Babbit, Milton

Bacchus, Peter

Bacri, Nicolas

Baker, Michael Conway

Baksa, Robert

Barber, Samuel

Barrere, Georges

Bartók, Béla Viktor János

Baton, René-Emmanuel

Beaser, Robert

Bennet, Richard Rodney

Berg, Gunnar

Berio, Luciano

Bernofsky, Lauren

Bernstein, Leonard

Bloch, Ernest

Bolling, Claude

Bon, Maarten

Bonis, Mel

Boughton, Rutland

Boulanger, Marie-Juliette

Boulez, Pierre

Bourdin, Roger

Bournonville, Armand

Bowen, Edwin York

Bozza, Eugène Joseph

Bréville, Pierre

Brings, Allen

Brotons, Salvador

Brown, Elizabeth

Brun, Georges

Burkhard, Willy

Burton, Eldin

Büsser, Henri

Camus, Pierre

Carmichael, John

Carter, Elliott

Casella, Alfredo

Chaynes, Charles

Clarke, Ian

Colgrass, Michael

Colquhoun, Michael

Copland, Aaron

Corigliano, John

Cortese, Luigi

Currier, Sebastian

Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus

Damase, Jean-Michel

Davidovsky, Mario

De Lorenzo, Leonardo

Debussy, Claude

Del Tredici, David

DeLaney, Charles Oliver

Delerue, Georges

Denisov, Edison

Dèsbriere, Jacques

Dick, Robert

Dinicu, Grigoraș

Dodgson, Stephen

Dohnányi, Ernő

Dubois, Pierre Max

Dukas, Paul

Durey, Louis

Dutilleux, Henri

Enescu, George

Farkas, Ferenc

Feld, Jindřich

Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

Flothuis, Marius

Folio, Cynthia

Foote, Arthur

Foss, Lukas

Françaix, Jean

Fukushima, Kazuo

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Gál, Hans

Gaubert, Philippe

Genzmer, Harald

George, Thom Ritter

Ghidoni, Armando

Gieseking, Walter

Glass, Philip

Glière, Reinhold

Golovin, Andrei

Gordeli, Otar

Grier, Lita

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson

Grinblat, Romuald

Grovlez, Gabriel

Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo

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Hahn, Reynaldo

Hailstork, Adolphus

Halphen, Fernand

Hanson, Howard Harold

Harberg, Amanda

Harbison, John

Harsányi, Tibor

Harty, Hamilton

Heiss, John

Heith, David

Henze, Hans-Werner

Higdon, Jennifer

Hindemith, Paul

Holliger, Heinz

Holmboe, Vagn

Honegger, Arthur

Hoover, Katherine

Hosokawa, Toshio

Hovhaness, Alan

Hüe, Georges Adolphe

Hurel, Philippe

Ibert, Jacques

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Ittzés, Gergely

Ives, Charles

Jacob, Gordon

James, Bob

Jemnitz, Sándor

Jirák, Karel Boleslav

Jóhannsson, Magnús Blöndal

Jolivet, André

Jongen, Joseph

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid

Kay, Ulysses

Kelterborn, Rudolf

Ķeniņš, Tālivaldis

Kennan, Kent Wheeler

Kennedy, Martin

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Khachaturian, Aram

Kocsár, Miklós

Kodaly, Zoltan

Koechlin, Charles

Kornauth, Egon

Kraft, Leo

Krzywicki, Jan

Kupferman, Meyer

La Montaine, John

Lauber, Joseph

Lavista, Mario

Lee, Eugene

Leeuwen, Ary van

Levinson, Gerald

Liebermann, Lowell

Loudova, Ivana

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Mahler, Gustav

Maresz, Yan

Martin, Frank

Martino, Donald

Martinů, Bohuslav

Meltzer, Harold

Messiaen, Olivier

Mihalovici, Marcel

Milhaud, Darius

Mouquet, Jules

Mower, Mike

Muczynski, Robert

Nielsen, Carl

Norby, Erik

Nordenstrom, Gladys

Offermans, Wil

Olsen, Carl Gustav Sparre

Paget, Daniel

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Piazzolla, Astor

Piston, Walter

Poulenc, Francis

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Ran, Shulamit

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Rautavaara, Einojuhani

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Riegger, Wallingford

Rivier, Jean

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Rota, Nino

Rotaru, Doina

Rouse, Christopher

Roussel, Albert

Rutter, John

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Schwantner, Joseph

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Sibelius, Jean

Smit, Leo

Tailleferre, Germaine

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Tomasi, Henri

Tower, Joan

Uébayashi, Yuko

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Vasks, Pēteris

Weigl, Vally

Weinberg, Mieczysław

Wilder, Alec

Williams, Ralph Vaughan

Yi, Chen

Yun, Isang

Zgraja, Krystof

Concerto No 1 for flute and orchestra

By Jolivet André

André Jolivet: Concerto No. 1 for flute and orchestra was written in 1949 and dedicated to Jean-Pierre Rampal, who premiered it in 1950.  Originally, it was composed as a Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra.

"The Andante cantabile opens the piece with its endless, lonely flute line floating above the string chords. As the tension grows and the orchestra becomes restless, the anguish of the first movement morphs itself into a playful Allegro scherzando. It is written in a way that is more like a dialogue, the flute and orchestra lines and motifs complementing each other. The scherzando atmosphere comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, leaving the audience breathless and eager for the third movement—the only one not attacca. The Largo plays the theme first heard in the Concerto, this time with the full strength of the string section, falling away to leave two questioning phrases played by a suddenly very lonesome flute. The last Allegro risoluto is one of the most consistently frenetic pieces that Jolivet wrote. The flute and orchestral parts are closely intertwined, making the process of rehearsing and playing closer to chamber music than normally found in a concerto, with the full range of texture an orchestra provides. The deeply rhythmical aspect of this movement, combined with many motifs and theme repetitions, gives an unmistakable incantatory character."

Markus Brönnimann

José-Daniel Castellon

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Nicolas Chalvin (conductor), 2019, Claves

1. Andante cantabile, 2. Allegro scherzando, 3. Largo, 4. Allegro risoluto

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Stathis Karapanos (flute), Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), 2020, live performance in Frankfurt

1. Andante cantabile, 2. Allegro scherzando, 3. Largo, 4. Allegro risoluto

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Hélène Boulègue

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor), 2020, Naxos

1. Andante cantabile, 2. Allegro scherzando

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Hélène Boulègue

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor), 2020, Naxos

3. Largo, 4. Allegro risoluto

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Jean-Pierre Rampal

Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux, André Jolivet (conductor), 1950, Erato

1. Andante cantabile, 2. Allegro scherzando, 3. Largo, 4. Allegro risoluto

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Jolivet André

André Jolivet (1905-1974) was a French composer and conductor, known as music’s most sophisticated primitivist. Jolivet liked to expand boundaries of such "primitive" instruments as flute and percussions and described his explorations as "restoring music's original ancient sense".
During his service in the French Army in WWII Jolivet became interested in primitive religion and magic which later developed his style, which sometimes combined exotic and esoteric components.
Even though he wrote concertos for traditional instruments like flute, violin or cello, he managed to come up with rather unusual sonic combinations inspiring many composers to follow these paths. Edgar Varèse has been acknowledged as Jolivet's teacher and mentor who inspired André to formulate his musical style, experimenting with atonality, sound-masses, and other unconventional acoustical properties.