A Piccolo Concerto that Deserves a Performance
Florentine Mulsant’s 13-minute Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra was highly praised by reviewer Carla Rees in the British flute magazine PAN:
Perhaps one of the most notable features of the piece is the timbral quality achieved by the piccolo; one usually associates the piccolo with high, bright and even squeaky sounds, but in this piece, the focus is on expression, delicacy, lightness and timbral variation. Mulsant’s piccolo rarely ventures into the high register, instead she features the earthiness of the low register and
the sweetness of the middle register. This is a notable work that deserves to become an established part of the repertoire.
Concerto pour piccolo et orchestre op. 72 No. 2 and Concerto pour piccolo et piano