Eva Oertle / Consuelo Giulianelli LAKE REFLECTIONS

“The Song of the black Swan” by Heitor Villa-Lobos is the centrepiece of this attractive musical program for flute and harp is conceived around the topics of “water”, “lake”, “ocean” & “rain”. Including the well known piece, “The Swan” from “The Carnival of the Animals” (« Le carnaval des animaux ») by Camille Saint-Saëns, the album features also several songs in arrangements for flute and harp by composers such as Schubert & Mendelssohn. Another key work is Claude Debussy’s “Syrinx”, the first significant piece for solo flute after the Sonata in A minor composed by C. P. E. Bach 150 years before (1763), and it is the first such solo composition for the modern Böhm flute, perfected in 1847. The Swiss flutist Eva Oertle is active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and performs with such internationally renowned orchestras as Il Giardino Armonico and Al Ayre Español. As a soloist she has performed with the Brandenburgisches Streichorchester, the Festivalorchester Davos, the Schweizer Philharmonie and the Festival Strings Lucerne and has toured in Germany, Italy, and Chile, where she also gave master classes. Eva Oertle is also active as a presenter and music editor with Swiss Radio SRF2 Kultur. Italian harpist Consuelo Giulianelli has performed with the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Switzerland, i Solisti di Brescia, Italy, Orchesterverein Bregenz, Austria, and others. Consuelo has been Principal Harpist of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. In 2002 she has been appointed as harp professor at the Music Conservatory of Feldkirch, Austria. (Presto Classical)