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Emmanuel Pahud is one of the truly great flautists. With this gorgeous recital, he proves himself a magical programmer, too, intertwining Baroque composer Telemann’s 12 Fantasias with lesser-known works written between 1917 and 2017. Pahud’s rich, lucid tone caresses Telemann’s timeless miniatures as it does Arvo Pärt’s stunningly simple *Estländler*, Ferroud’s exotic Impressionist jewels, or Takemitsu’s floating, meandering *Air*. Music by Nielsen, Berio, Honegger, and a startling, wild, virtuosic work by Pintscher give us a colorful window onto a lesser-explored musical landscape, brought to a wondrous close by Marais’ Les Folies d’Espagne variations.