New Music For Flute
Navona, 2020
8/10
An album anchored by Lindsey Goodman’s inimitable flute prowess, she performs here in solo, duo and trio settings, as both jazz and classical ideas unfold with a complicated but never esoteric delivery.
“Bluez” starts the listen with incredible flute acrobatics from Goodman in the Josh Oxford tune, and this continues to the calmer, emotive “Soliloquy, as well as the chilling alto flute of “Marsyas”.
Elsewhere, Mara Helmuth’s “Butterfly Within” is divided into 4 parts where different moods accompany each calculated, mesmerizing portion, and “Watercolors Of The Master Who Is Accustomed To Paint Oils” recruits The Chrysalis Duo and Robert Frankenberry on piano for the dynamic and captivating album highlight.
At the end, “In Memoriam (GH & FMB)” offers one of the fuller tuned with toy piano, cello and crotales alongside Goodman’s flute, and “Flight 710 To Cabo San Lucas” exits with a surprise as the sounds become more abrasive before settling into gentle, playful and soothing.
An extremely technical listen that soars high and shifts in textures and tempos often, Goodman’s in excellent company on New Music For Flute, and together they illuminate her unparalleled flute skill perfectly.
Travels well with: Apollo Chamber Players- Within Earth; David Maslanka- The River Of Time