Music for Flute and Orchestra is a classical work by catalan

Catalonia

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 composer Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...

, composed in 2000. This work was commissioned by the Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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, and the first recording of the work can be found in the Naxos

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catalogue. This piece has plenty of Catalan folk elements and belong to the composer's avant-garde period.

Structure

This piece is in two movements, each one of them lasting for ten minutes approximately. The composer did not write a title for none of the movements, so the number within the work is considered the title, namely:

• I.
• II.

According to the author of this work, the first movement is slow; the flute plays a mysterious melody after a short introduction from the orchestra. The second movement is written for a virtuoso soloist, while the orchestra plays a dance in the background.