Flautist Ana de la Vega teams up with two-time ECHO award-winning oboist Ramón Ortega Quero and the Trondheim Soloists on her second PENTATONE album, to explore the intricate and unique relationship between flute and oboe in concertos by Joseph Haydn and Carl Stamitz. The program consists of two concertos Haydn originally designed for two lire organizzate (small hybrid instruments incorporating strings and organ pipes), as well as Stamitz’s concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra in G Major.The recording also features the latter’s vibrant and virtuosic but rarely recorded Flute concerto in D Major, which offers some of the finest writing for flute of the entire Classical era.

Ana de la Vega expands her PENTATONE discography together with Ramón Ortega Quero as well as the Trondheim Soloists, whose album Transfigured Night with Alisa Weilerstein was released on PENTATONE in 2018.

REVIEWS:

These likeable and charming pieces should give the listener as much pleasure as the artists appear to have had in their lucid performances.

-- BBC Music Magzine

Both soloists and their accompanists, one of Norway’s leading chamber ensembles, play all this undemanding music (for the listener, at least) with ideal pose and balance.

-- Gramophone