
The modern transverse flute was developed in 1847 by German instrument maker Theobald Böhm, whose invention was initially rejected in his homeland but embraced in France.
Alina Pronina, the pianist, won the Steinway Competition in Berlin in 2007 and became a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now support association.
This recording features a Sankyo Flute 9K with a 14K Lafin Head and a C. Bechstein D 282 concert grand piano.
The album, titled 'Révélations', offers an insight into the chamber music of French composers from the period between modernism and the present.
Anna Wierer, the flutist on this album, began playing the flute at age four and performed with the St. Petersburg Academic State Orchestra as a child.