Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> writes about Jeff Manookian's
Flute Concerto:

>I don't really expect much from a flute concerto, quite frankly, so few
>capable ones not by Bach or Vivaldi seem to be out there, and the music
>is genteel and pleasant enough without once rising to real wit or poetry.

Hopefully you are familiar with Carl Nielsen's flute concerto, a work
to which "genteel" certainly would not apply; perhaps "agitated" and
"enigmatic" would be more apt.  I favor the recording with Frantz Lemmser
and Blomstedt with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra on EMI (which I
find far preferable to Rampal's recording for CBS).

 - seb