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"Laura Falzon ... particularly showed her versatile technique in performing Roy Travis's Switched on Ashanti for flute and tape, which proved to be highly representative of interculturalism."
"Laura Falzon's flautism was ethereal"
"Divertimento for flute featuring soloist Laura Falzon (...) was a very crisp and controlled performance, leading to the mysterious second movement and a giocando third and last movement. A very pleasant work indeed! (...) [In] Sama'i for flute solo(...) and Centrifuge, a duo for flute and clarinet (...) performers did an extermely good job and deserved all the praise and applause they received. (...)Centrifugue is based on fugal devices worked out extremely well by the two musicians." Joyce Guillaumier, "A Celebration of life and music", The Times of Malta
"You play the piece beautifully"
"When I decided to fulfill a commission to compose a work for Laura, I knew that the collaboration would be fruitful. My expectations were exceeded when I realized how sypathetically and musically she embodied my Two Venetian Frescos."
"What terrific playing! I loved all the different colors you got on the low C at the beginning of Interchangeable Galaxies! And the non-vibrato parts were especially impressive ... a diminuendo with the clarinet that was magical, and others too!" Patricia Spencer, flutist
"Thanks for your lively and sensitive recording of Pwyl. It’s great to hear it make its way through your sensibility. Familiar and yet new. … [It] finds and brings out more of the work's lyricism ... Brava!"
"Your playing is really beautiful, focused and expressive"
"... very impressive, sensible yet powerful performances"
"Laura Falzon Sparkles at Music Club Recital; (she) boasts a rich tone; combined lightness and expression; has the ability to set a mood from the outset of each performance"
"Laura Falzon ... is very interested in contemporary flute music and is fearless in tackling and promoting it"
"(...) the world premiere of [Akin Euba's] Study in Polyrhythm No. 3, for flute and piano, [was] expertly played by Ms. Falzon and Ms. Hong. (...) Halim El-Dabh's (...) Big Tooth Aspen for flute and derabucca (goblet-shaped ceramic hand drum [also known as darbuka]), a virtuosic, avant-garde composition requiring a variety of extended flute techniques, [was] expertly executed by Ms. Falzon."
"«Interchangeable Galaxies» où l'étonnement lassait place aux jeux d'ombres et de couleurs avec une choregraphie somptueuse et une musique simple, la flûte et le piano faissant un excellent cocktail".
"She is really an outstanding virtuoso"
"Laura Falzon who has specialized in my music ...she gave a brilliant first performance for my recent flute work Espace Volant, with the famous Spectrum from London."
"Laura Falzon managed a haunting delivery of Diaphainon ... a remarkable performance ... to convey an already intense work with an enviable sense of style and commitment."
"A truly virtuoso performance of Espace Volante tonight. It was great to have you as soloist with us"
"Interchangeable Galaxies was written for the Maltese flautist Laura Falzon; so also was Espace Volant ... for flute and chamber orchestra in which Camilleri conceives the flute as a moving object in space."
"Those present ... were regaled to some very fine, I would say brilliant, flute playing by Laura Falzon. (...) The same calm confidence displayed in the Arnold (Concerto No 1) was supreme in the more virtuoso showpiece which concluded the concert and which saw a good part of it encored. The work in question was François Borne’s Fantaisie Brillante on Bizet’s Carmen which Miss Falzon turned into a triumph of technical precision yet one of warmth too."
"a sensitive performer with good taste and musicality, equipped with an excellent technique and passion for music".
"Flautist Laura Falzon (...) was remarkably brilliant"
"You were superb!"
"Robert Weatherburn and Rondda Gillespie [pianists] were joined by the members of the Rasumovski Quartet, (...) and (...) flautist L. Falzon (...) The performance was throughout slick and incisive and full of spirit."
"I have been struck by her real commitment to the music she is playing at the time — whether standard repertoire or the most challenging contemporary pieces. She always plays with a strong but beautiful tone and displays a wonderful sense of style and musicianship which is totally appropriate for whatever piece she is performing. Her knowledge of contemporary techniques is excellent."
"The quality of [Laura Falzon’s] performance was outstanding"
"Beautiful music!"
"Concerto for flute and strings op. 45, ta' Malcolm Arnold (...) Falzon kienet limpida ferm fil-hoss. L-ewwel moviment kien nadif u car, kellha espressjoni fl-Adagio u temp preciz matul l-esekuzzjoni kollha."
"What a treat! ... Bravo!
"L-aktar haga pozittiva mill-kuncert kollu (...) kien il-Concertino ghall-flawt ta' Cecile Chaminade li daqqet Laura Falzon. Dil-muzicista ghandha kontroll fuq in-nifs u desterità tas-swaba li jaghtuha spazju mhux ftit halli tirraffina fl-espressività tad-daqq taghha. (...) il-partitura brillanti u t-tizwiq ta' kuluri jiswew mhux ftit bhala preludju ghal kadenza tassew eleganti. Post fejn il-flawtista setghet turi ftit x'taf."
"Laura Falzon (...) played with consummate command of her instrument (...) both permorfers [Laura Falzon and Mark Ray] displaying enormous virtuosity (...) these artists created a balance of rich harmony (...) the balance was excellent with the instruments talking to each other wonderfully (...) her (Laura Falzon's) performance throughout , being not only undaunted by the technical demands of what she was playing but also imbuing the whole with sensitivity and feeling which was quickly conveyed into the appreciative audience."
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