Flautist Sally Walker Launches New Album Of Boccherini Classics

Boccherini: Chamber Works for Flute is a new double album featuring Australian Flautist Sally Walker, released this month by AVIE records UK. Celebrating the release of this album is a concert Music fit for a King featuring Walker and her ensemble playing the exquisite music of Mozart and Boccherini.

Performing with Walker on both the double album and in the concert are violinist Dr Elizabeth Layton, Senior Lecturer and Head of Performance, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, violinist Alison Rayner from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Baroque, former member Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, violist Stephen King, formerly with the Australian Chamber orchestra and Australian String Quartet, teacher at Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide and  cellist Thomas Marlin, member Adelaide Baroque and teacher at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide).

Late 18th century Italian composer Luigi Boccherini produced a vast catalogue of compositions, many of which are chamber works featuring the flute which vary in their configuration, some intimate, others on a grander scale reminiscent of the composer’s orchestral music. Australian flautist Sally Walker, whose most recent album was the critically acclaimed ‘Something Like This’ with harpist Emily Granger, has immersed herself into the provenance of Boccherini’s works for her instrument to produce a 90-minute, double album of music featuring the rarely performed yet highly imaginative Op. 19 Quintets, for two violins, flute, viola and cello, the Op. 38 Sextet for violin, viola, bassoon, flute, horn and double bass; and the Quintet in C, G.443 for flute, oboe, violin, viola and cello, a mysterious work attributed to Boccherini but whose authorship is contested. As Sally says, “it begs the question: who, if not Boccherini, could write so inventively?”.

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Concert: 70-minute concert, no interval

The program: Boccherini Flute Quintets Op. 19 (complete)/ Mozart   Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285

More information: https://www.sallywalker.com.au/

Read our review of Something Like This, Sally Walker’s recent album with harpist Emily Granger