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Programme Notes

This 8-minute solo flute piece, written in 1979, was inspired by the sight of birds soaring and dipping over the peaks of the Swiss Alps. Equally important to me at the time, however, was the challenge to produce clear, dramatic structure and harmony within a monody restricted to the flute’s three-octave compass.

© George Benjamin

Reviews

'Benjamin's Flight must surely be seen as the successor to Debussy's Syrinx. It displays fully the flute's compatibility with freedom and fantasy. It's virtuosic by nature, but begins and ends with mellow, low-register glissandi.'
BBC Music Magazine (Kate Sherriff), October 1995

Flight

Auditorium Jean-Pierre Dautel (Caen, France)

Ensemble Carabanchel/Alphonse Cemin/dir. Jacques Osinski/Camille Merckx/Claire Luquiens/Jenny Daviet

Flight

Auditorium Jean-Pierre Dautel (Caen, France)

Ensemble Carabanchel/Alphonse Cemin/dir. Jacques Osinski/Camille Merckx/Claire Luquiens/Jenny Daviet

Flight

Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nîmes, France)

Sharon Carty/Gionata Sgambaro/Carole Roth/Laurent Camatte/Amaryllis Jarczyk/Hugo Abraham/Aurelien Pascal

Flight

Grand Oratoire (Nîmes, France)

Cédric Tiberghien/Marion Ralincourt

Flight

Perth Concert Hall (Perth, WA, Australia)

Musica Viva/Adam Walker

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