Composed for Volume 3, the letter D of the integral CD project From A to Z by the flutist Sharon Bezaly, Brett Dean makes extensive use of the corresponding note in a seven-minute solo work: Demons starts with hammering high Ds, to be played in a highly excited and 'demonic' way with an enormous amount of different timbres, articulations, harmonics and nuances.

The piece then takes a new direction and reveals a short, but dense 'rondo form'. The first part, dominated by the 'D', returns in t...