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Adam Walker performs Mozart Piano Sonata No 17 in his own arrangement for piano and flute duo. Schubert himself wrote the brilliant and virtuosic Trockne Blumen variations for flute & piano based on his song from Die Schone Mullerin. It was written at the request of his friend and flautist Ferdinand Pogner and is in the form of a theme and variation for maximum opportunity to demontrate the flautist's virtuosic prowess no doubt. Adam Walker and James Baillieu complete their recital with a showpiece from another virtuoso flautist of the 19th century, Albert Doppler. Doppler was born in Lviv in Ukraine and together with his flute-playing brother dazzled European audiences as a duo. Multi-talented, Franz Doppler wrote seven operas and fifteen ballets on top of countless pieces for flute and he had a distinguished career as Chief Conductor at the Vienna Court Opera at the same time as holding the position of Professor of Flute at the Vienna Conservatoire.

Schubert: Trockne Blumen Variations
Mozart: Sonata no. 17 in B Flat arr. for Flute and piano K.570
Doppler: Airs Valaques

Adam Walker, flute
James Baillieu, piano

Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell