This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” I’ll be joined by flutist Robert Stallman, who will talk about his new album, “Cosi fan Flauti,” recently issued on the Bogner’s Café label.
On top of a lifetime of experience as a performer, Stallman (a former pupil of Jean-Pierre Rampal) has an unusually intimate knowledge of the scores of Mozart, having transcribed some 50 of his works for other combinations involving the flute. A superb album of “new” quintets for flute and strings, derived from some of the piano sonatas, was met with great acclaim upon its release in 2006, in large part for Stallman’s idiomatic grasp of the composer’s method. He went on to perform the same service for Franz Schubert, having arranged some 40 of his works, several of which were issued on another album in 2009.
The centerpiece of his most recent issue is a new “Sinfonia Concertante” for two flutes and orchestra, based on a two-piano sonata, which Stallman transcribed and then had his friend, the English composer Stephen Dodgson (a descendent of Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), orchestrate. We’ll be listening to this reimagining of Mozart’s original, as well as Dodgson’s own Concerto for Flute and Strings, which was dedicated to Stallman and recorded for the Biddulph Recordings label, back in 1994.
Also on the new album is Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp (with Stallman’s own cadenzas) and two selections from the “Haffner Serenade” performed on the flute.
I hope you’ll join me for “Cosi fan Flauti,” this Sunday night at 10 ET, with a repeat Wednesday evening at 6; or that you’ll listen to it later as a webcast at http://www.wwfm.org.

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