The whole huge process of nature plays a major role. Something decomposes and becomes something new. The trees, the grass and the weather all change and are transformed into something else. \\Here one experiences a constant metamorphosis. The metamorphosis technique is quite natural for me, and this is related to many things that seep in slowly through living with nature,\ Holmboe himself explained. His works bud, grow, flower and contract, developing as metamorphoses with the cycle of the sun. Holmboe's music is concentrated and logical, but at the same time breathes naturally. Alongside his feeling for nature he had a highly intellectual side, and this gives his music a characteristic duality. He was a decided nature-lover who lived in the countryside from 1939 until his death in 1996, and over the years personally planted 3000 trees on his land by the lake Arresø in northern Zealand. She lives in London with husband Richard Tunnicliffe and their daughter Luba.Sky, earth and water are basic elements that can be heard in most of Vagn Holmboe's (1909-96) works. She holds an international reputation as a teacher and coach, and many of her former students are now successful and well-known flautists. Lisa enjoys teaching and is professor of early flutes at London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She has also appeared with Hausmusik London, Convivium (formerly Locatelli Trio) and Trio Sonnerie.Īs a valued principal player over many years in some of Englands best period instrument orchestras (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music, London Classical Players) she also features prominently on many discs of orchestral music from Bach to Brahms. Lisa is well known as a recitalist, her partners having included harpsichordists Paul Nicholson, Maggie Cole, Malcolm Proud and Richard Egarr lutenists Nigel North, Paula Chateauneuf and Elizabeth Kenny her violinist brother Pavlo Beznosiuk her husband, cellist and gambist Richard Tunnicliffe flautist Stephen Preston and gambist Sarah Cunningham. Her playing in the OAE at Glyndebourne Opera was labelled a 'truly magic flute'. The Independent described this recording as 'a perfect example of Beznosiuk’s dark, sweet tone and understated musicianship' and it recently received another 5 star recommendation from Goldberg Magazine.Ĭoncerto appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment have prompted press comment praising her 'absolutely scintillating performance' with 'pearly tone and breathtaking virtuosity' ( The Times). Most significantly, her 2002 release of the complete Bach Flute Sonatas also for Hyperion was hailed as the 'prime recommendation' for the works and as 'an outstanding achievement', demonstrating an 'expressive and technical virtuosity of the highest order' by BBC Music Magazine. Her recordings include the complete Handel Flute Sonatas for Hyperion ('laser-accurate articulation and her blissfully precise intonation' Early Music Today), Vivaldi’s Op 10 Concerti for DG which was chosen as the preferred choice on Radio 3’s Building a Library, Mozart’s Flute Concertos (Decca), several versions of Bach’ Suite in B minor and his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. The considerable enthusiastic critiques Lisa receives for her live and recorded performances regularly cite her 'real musical intelligence' ( Goldberg) and beauty of tone in particular ('warmest, woodiest and most alluring of them all' BBC Music Magazine). She trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London where she developed a great interest and love for the wooden flute and it’s music, studying with Stephen Preston and also found herself busy playing harpsichord continuo. In her dual capacities as soloist and orchestral principal, she has travelled throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America, playing a wide range of 18th- and 19th-century repertoire with some of its finest interpreters. Born in England of Ukranian/Irish descent Lisa Beznosiuk is one of the worlds leading performers on early flutes.
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