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News
- 08 March 2024
Emmanuel Pahud returns to Denmark as part of Léonie Sonning Music Prize win
Read full article - 19 October 2020
Emmanuel Pahud returns to the Vienna Konzerthaus
Read full article - 30 June 2020
Daniel Barenboim & Emmanuel Pahud curate festival of new music
Read full article - 08 January 2020
In conversation: Trevor Pinnock, Emmanuel Pahud & Jonathan Manson
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Press
Dalbavie Flute Concerto - Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Maison Symphonique de MontréalJan 2023In much of the Dalbavie concerto, passages in the solo flute part fly by at warp speed, so much so that only a Pierre Boulez could discern if the soloist is in fact hitting all the notes. Not only was Pahud up to the challenge, but even when his fingers were moving at lightning speed, he still sculpted melodic lines and clearly delineated phrasal arrival points.
- Ian Cochrane, bachtrack
- 29 January 2023
Concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Maison Symphonique de MontréalOct 2023There could be little argument that Pahud is currently the planet’s number one flutist. He continues the line of French masters that began with Claude-Paul Taffanel and Marcel Moyse and progressed through Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet (Pahud’s teacher). Pahud manifests stunning control in all registers and at all dynamic levels; he can weave long seamless phrases by taking a catch breath while the sound of the previous note is still resonating. His musical imagination is sagacious.
- bachtrack
- 16 October 2022
Mozart and Flute in Paris
Album ReviewOct 2021Those aforementioned first few seconds, courtesy of Philippe Hersant’s Dreamtime for solo flute and orchestra, are in fact also some of the most instantly beguiling and exciting bars of music I’ve heard open a disc in some time.
- Charlotte Gardner, Gramophone
- 01 October 2021
Solo
Album ReviewJul 2018The eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces. It's like eating a bag of pick 'n' mix where every sweet is deliciously interesting, and the aleatory element merely enhances the enjoyment... The flautist's customary rounded sound is pristinely captured throughout this quirky collection.
- BBC Music Magazine
- 01 July 2018