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This month's featured work
Reminiscence
Reminiscence is mvt. 2 from
Flute Concerto No.1 Op.70
- dedicated to Emily Beynon.
- Berg is one of a handful of composers who are able to create the rare experience of enchanted silence in their music – Berg's Flute Concerto No.1 Op.70 contains several such moments. Even though his tools are a "conventional" orchestra using "conventional" instruments, an unreal atmosphere of calm and celestial flight arises. One of the most fascinating aspects in this regard is that he does not use any minimalist or modernist devices at all; he simply allows the music and its inner qualities to speak in full. In our current age of constant hectic activity, where it is barely permitted to think a complete thought, music such as this is of the greatest importance: it gives the listener the chance to experience time as a benefit and not as a punishment. The concerto is dedicated to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's eminent flautist Emily Beynon, and it received its premier performance in London in February 2009. Wolfgang Plagge
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Fred Jonny Berg - Biography
Sir James Galway performed the world premiere of Flute Mystery op.66a
Sir James Galway and National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slaktin performed Flute Mystery op.66a 3 consecutive days, October 5-7, 2006.
Sir James Galway, Fred Jonny Berg and Leonard Slatkin (Washington, 2006)
Photo taken after the world premiere of Flute Mystery Op.66a for alto flute, harp and string orchestra (dedicated to Sir James Galway).
– Galway formed a sinuous bond with the orchestra in the world premiere of Norwegian composer Fred Jonny Berg's "Flute Mystery", Concerto for Alto Flute and Orchestra. Berg writes music of a spare beauty. The 15-minute, one-movement piece merges cool restraint and rhythmic exactitude. Galway, to whom Berg dedicated the score, played his languid lines with sympathy and dark polish.
(Washington Post, October 6, 2006)
– The most important thing for me is that the music has been made available to the public, and performed by great musicians, the composer Fred Jonny Berg says.
In addition, there is a version for C flute, op.66b.
