Opus Klassik Awards 2018
Concert Recording (19th-century music)

Tatjana Ruhland (flute)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Alexander Liebreich

Tatjana Ruhland has been described as the Paganini of the flute, and since her debut at New Yorks Carnegie Hall she has been revered as one of todays most prominent flautists. In this release she dedicates herself to Carl Reineckes chamber and concertante flute compositions, all of which he composed during the second half of his life. Along with the Undine Sonata op. 167 for flute and piano, today his most frequently performed work, the recording features the two concertante works written by him when he was over eighty years old. Here the initial dominance of stylistic elements associated with Mendelssohn has yielded to a tonal language that is both electrifying and highly individual. Reineckes music is diatonic in design but so strongly pervaded by semitones and suspensions that it also continues to flow.