{"id":29307,"date":"2021-06-15T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29307"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:37:30","slug":"concert-review-piano-and-flute-recital-tedeschi-and-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29307","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review: Piano And Flute Recital\/ Tedeschi And Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Recital of music for piano and flute<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Simon Tedeschi and Sally Walker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hunters Hill Music<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hunters Hill Town Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>13 June, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flautist extraordinaire Sally Walker teamed up with acclaimed award-winning pianist Simon Tedeschi for a soir\u00e9e presented by Hunters Hill Music in a program built around the concept of miniatures. As Walker explained in her dialogue with the audience, this was an \u201cuplifting pandemic program which aimed to freeze a small moment of happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The miniatures came from all around the world but setting the template were French pieces by Gabriel Faur\u00e9 and Erik Satie &#8211; Faur\u00e9\u2019s <em>Fantaisie op. 79, <\/em>used as an examination piece by the Conservatoire de Paris in 1898, 1916 and 1925, and the exquisite <em>Sicilienne<\/em>, Op. 78, composed in 1893 and originally an unperformed orchestral piece. The <em>Sicilienne<\/em> was later arranged by Faur\u00e9 for cello and piano in 1898. Satie\u2019s <em>Gymnop\u00e9dies <\/em>1 and 3 followed, with Tedeschi lengthening the tempo of the No. 1 in a piano solo followed by a duo version of the No. 3 \u2013 the flute perfectly encapsulating the elegance and lucence of this late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century style.<\/p>\n<p>The French flair continued into the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century with Philippe Gaubert\u2019s <em>Madrigal. A<\/em> distinguished flautist, conductor and composer whose appointments included Professor of flute at the Paris Conservatoire and principal conductor of the Paris Op\u00e9ra. Walker and Tedeschi revelled in his exemplary writing for flute and piano.<\/p>\n<p>A composer writing for the instrument at which they are adept is as special as a piece written especially for a performer. Walker and Tedeschi tossed French restraint aside in the passionate teasing of <em>Milonga del Serafin<\/em> which was written especially for Sally Walker in 2001 by Argentinian composer Coco Nelegatti. Gershwin\u2019s <em>Rhapsody in Blue <\/em>is another piece which has become synonymous with its performer and Tedeschi\u2019s arrangement for piano was warmly received.<\/p>\n<p>Combining a busy schedule of teaching and performing, mainly in Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra, Sally Walker has done much to champion the flute and its repertoire \u2013 established and new. The second half of the program contained pieces composed for the flute and included the <em>Entr&#8217;acte<\/em> to Act III from Bizet\u2019s <em>Carmen, <\/em>Elena Kats-Chernin\u2019s <em>Chatterbox Rag<\/em> commissioned by Walker for a \u201ccheeky\u201d 16-year-old student of hers, aptly played on the piccolo and in a return to the French genre, two pieces by Poulenc, one discovered in 2000 <em>Un Joueur de flute berce les ruines <\/em>and the popular<em> Sonata for Flute and Piano. &nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this mix were pieces written for piano and violin but transcribed for flute. A <em>Romanze<\/em> by Max Reger, for piano and \u201cviolin (or flute),\u201d Amy Beach\u2019s <em>Romance <\/em>(piano and violin) and Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s <em>Spiegel im Spiegel<\/em>, the tintinnabular duet written for piano and violin, but adapted for many other combinations. The pairing of a tinkling piano, requiring a vastly different touch to Gershwin\u2019s jazzy chords and pounding rhythms with the dusky alto flute in a transcription made by the composer, where the melody sings over diatonic scales, was a truly mesmerising experience.<\/p>\n<p>There was a gracious return for an encore \u2013 Percy Grainger\u2019s arrangement of <em>Londonderry Air<\/em>, bringing the soir\u00e9e to a close. Interspersed with vignettes about their own musical journeys and their longstanding collaboration, Walker and Tedeschi performed on instruments so different in timbre and sound production but which contrast and complement each other so well in their hands. Simon Tedeschi proved himself to be as skilful an ensemble player as he is a soloist and Sally Walker is, I believe, Australia\u2019s best flautist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney<\/em><em>\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Peter Hislop<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Tedeschi proved himself to be as skilful an ensemble player as he is a soloist and Sally Walker is, I believe, Australia\u2019s best flautist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-29307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Concert Review: Piano And Flute Recital\/ Tedeschi And Walker - 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