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15 May 2023

Pacho Flores earns douze points in Liverpool

By Leighton Jones,

As Liverpool revels in Eurovision fever, the buzz throughout the city was equally felt in the
city’s Philharmonic Hall. Returning were what the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
have branded the “dream team”, chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan and trumpeter Pacho
Flores. Opening the concert was a very vivacious reading of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival,
setting a high standard of music-making for the evening. Hindoyan shaped the phrases to
emphasise the harmony, giving the most colourful chords more weight with just a little
tastefully employed rubato.

Domingo Hindoyan and Pacho Flores
© Mark McNulty (2020)
20th-century French composer Henri Tomasi is not universally known, but his
1948 Trumpet Concerto does get the occasional airing. This 15-minute work was branded