Georg Philipp Telemann:
Concerto in E minor, TWV 52:e1 for recorder and flute with strings and harpsichord

Camille Saint-Saëns:
Tarentelle, Op. 6, for flute, clarinet and orchestra

Franz Doppler:
Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra (arr. & rev. By András Adorjá)

Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for flute and bassoon

J.S. Bach:
- Suite aus den Orchesterwerken (arr. Gustav Mahler)

On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians, this project is a reminder, after more than two years of a pandemic that has affected all of us, that true musical synergy can only be achieved 'face-to-face’, rather than ‘remotely’.

With his Concerto for flute and recorder, Telemann not only creates a fusion of different musical styles of his time – namely Italian, German and French – but also shows a gift for borrowing elements from popular music. Saint-Saëns brings swirling colours and energy with a Tarentelle for flute, clarinet and orchestra, that at times displays obsessive, even threatening undertones. From the same period, Doppler’s Concerto for two flutes is not far from the world of opera, providing the two soloists with ample opportunity to shine like two singers in front of an orchestra. In addition to celebrating the synergy created between musicians, the last two works featured on this disc, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 and Suite from the Orchestral Works, are telling examples of synergy between composers: it is as if Villa-Lobos and Mahler were shaking hands with Johann Sebastian Bach across distances of thousands of miles and hundreds of years.

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Recording: June 2017 (Doppler) and August 2021 (Telemann, Saint-Saëns, Bach/Mahler) at Örebro konserthus, Sweden, October 2021 (Villa–Lobos). Instrumentarium: Muramatsu 24 carat All Gold Model, No. 60600, (Sharon Bezaly).