All-State Flute Repertoire

“Laurel Zucker, American flutist and flute professor at California State University, Sacramento, has recorded on the Cantilena Records label a group of five works frequently chosen by students and their teachers for High School Competitions. The Suite in A minor by Telemann – this is a good rendition with fine tempi and moods. Zucker’s interpretation is quite true to Baroque performance style, including appropriate ornamentation…..Mozart G Major Concerto – …the performance is sensitive and virtuostic….Chaminade’s Concertino – “Zucker has complete command of this work, and plays it with great flair and turn-of-the-century style…The recording quality is of high caliber…Suite Modale by Bloch…movements are evocative, with a haunting ending…Faure’s Fantasie – Zucker performs it with great flair..the performance is a sparkling one with which to end the CD.”