Anne Pustlauk ensemble

Just as every concert stage has its Steinway, so too do most flautists always play the same 19th-century metal instrument. As fans of historically informed performances have known for ages, this is a missed opportunity, because when you play music on the appropriate instrument, something magical often happens. In this concert and in her lecture-performance on October 12th, Anne Pustlauk, flautist with Anima Eterna Brugge, presents her own artistic research into that very magic. Over the past few years, she has studied the keyed flute, an instrument somewhere between the traverso and the modern flute: its sound, its playing technique and, above all, the seldom-heard repertoire composed for it between 1750 and 1850. With three young colleagues, she plays pieces from Mozart, to Ries, to the somewhat obscure Hänsel, whose quartet she herself scored in the historical fashion. How that music really sounded back then remains a mystery, but this afternoon we are sure to come pretty close.