Flute Concerto (Reinecke)

The Flute Concerto has been compared to other works of the era. Geoffrey Norris of Gramophone called it a "substantial work" and said it "makes amends for the fact that Brahms never wrote a concerto for flute."^[2] John Rockwell of The New York Times was somewhat more critical, remarking, "Reinecke's sensibility was shaped by another Leipziger, Mendelssohn, and his flute concerto seems blissfully dated for a work composed in this century. It has an undeniable craft, and the final movement especially provides virtuosic moments for the soloist. But it is no masterwork."^[3] Michael Dervan of The Irish Times similarly opined, "The prolific Carl Reinecke, conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and director of the Leipzig Conservatory, has become a one-work composer, remembered for his Undine Sonata for flute and piano, and, a lot more rarely, for the two concertos recorded here. Reinecke's 19th-century version of easy-listening lacks both the rhythmic bounce and easy harmonic flow of the 18th-century variety, let alone the cleverness of 20th-century approaches."^[4]

• Flute Concerto (Reinecke): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project