38 by Brahms, and the eternal “Arpeggione” Sonata by Schubert. The album features a collection of some of the most intimately beautiful pieces, including the Songs without Words by Mendelssohn, the Intermezzi op. One of the label’s flagship artists, she carefully handpicks her concert appearances and recordings projects, making this release a document of extraordinary value. Maria João Pires is one of the reigning pianists of our times, with numerous recordings spanning more than two decades on Deutsche Grammophon. Pires is partnered by Antonio Meneses, cellist with the Beaux Arts Trio and artist of great wisdom and imagination. This recital, recorded live in the splendid Wigmore Hall acoustics, is clearly a red-letter event for chamber music connoisseurs. Over four decades since securing worldwide recognition as one of the finest musicians of her generation, Maria João Pires continues to transfix audiences with the spotless integrity, eloquence and vitality of her art. She lives in London with husband Richard Tunnicliffe and their daughter Luba. She holds an international reputation as a teacher and coach, and many of her former students are now successful and well-known flautists. Lisa enjoys teaching and is professor of early flutes at London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She has also appeared with Hausmusik London, Convivium (formerly Locatelli Trio) and Trio Sonnerie.Īs a valued principal player over many years in some of Englands best period instrument orchestras (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music, London Classical Players) she also features prominently on many discs of orchestral music from Bach to Brahms. Lisa is well known as a recitalist, her partners having included harpsichordists Paul Nicholson, Maggie Cole, Malcolm Proud and Richard Egarr lutenists Nigel North, Paula Chateauneuf and Elizabeth Kenny her violinist brother Pavlo Beznosiuk her husband, cellist and gambist Richard Tunnicliffe flautist Stephen Preston and gambist Sarah Cunningham. Her playing in the OAE at Glyndebourne Opera was labelled a 'truly magic flute'. The Independent described this recording as 'a perfect example of Beznosiuk’s dark, sweet tone and understated musicianship' and it recently received another 5 star recommendation from Goldberg Magazine.Ĭoncerto appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment have prompted press comment praising her 'absolutely scintillating performance' with 'pearly tone and breathtaking virtuosity' ( The Times). Most significantly, her 2002 release of the complete Bach Flute Sonatas also for Hyperion was hailed as the 'prime recommendation' for the works and as 'an outstanding achievement', demonstrating an 'expressive and technical virtuosity of the highest order' by BBC Music Magazine. Her recordings include the complete Handel Flute Sonatas for Hyperion ('laser-accurate articulation and her blissfully precise intonation' Early Music Today), Vivaldi’s Op 10 Concerti for DG which was chosen as the preferred choice on Radio 3’s Building a Library, Mozart’s Flute Concertos (Decca), several versions of Bach’ Suite in B minor and his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. The considerable enthusiastic critiques Lisa receives for her live and recorded performances regularly cite her 'real musical intelligence' ( Goldberg) and beauty of tone in particular ('warmest, woodiest and most alluring of them all' BBC Music Magazine). She trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London where she developed a great interest and love for the wooden flute and it’s music, studying with Stephen Preston and also found herself busy playing harpsichord continuo. In her dual capacities as soloist and orchestral principal, she has travelled throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America, playing a wide range of 18th- and 19th-century repertoire with some of its finest interpreters. Born in England of Ukranian/Irish descent Lisa Beznosiuk is one of the worlds leading performers on early flutes.
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