Pranaitis, Shanna / Frauke Aulbert

Flute Music Pranaitis, Shanna / Frauke Aulbert

The flute has a special place in Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf's oeuvre. What attracts him is its particular virtuosity, agility and ease in crossing large sonic spaces.

He was still a student when he composed the alto flute solo coincidentia oppositorum (1986) and the flute solo succolarity (1989). From the Angelus Novus cycle, La terreur d'ange nouveau (1997- 99) turned out to be a significant, substantial flute work. Then Shanna Pranaitis began performing Mahnkopf's flute music. This led to a cooperation that spawned the three most recent pieces: the solo for piccolo Kurtág-Cantus II (2013), the duo Finite Jest (2014) with the soprano Frauke Aulbert, and the solo for bass flute atsiminimas (2016).