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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 24/May/2024 ] Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that... |
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HENRYK GORECKI
Antoni Wit Conducts Henryk Górecki [Incls Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) ] Anna Górecka (piano) Carol Wincenc (flute) Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "What impresses me most about this performance is its sprituality" - Gramophone on the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs |
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CORELLI / BELLINI / CIMAROSA / FIORILLO / etc
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 1 Anthony Camden (oboe) / Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2001 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
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PLATTI / SALIERI / BESOZZI / ROSETTI
Italian Oboe Concertos Vol 2 Anthony Camden (oboe) Peter Lloyd (flute) / City of London Sinfonia / Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] More beautiful music for the oboe |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos II - Concertos 4 & 5 / "Triple" Concerto Nadja Schubert, Daniel Rothert, Eva Morsbach (recorder) Karl Kaiser (flute) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos Bach Complete Orchestral Works 7 / CD - released 2/Sep/1999 ] "It's especially useful to have both versions of Brandenburg No. 4 on the same disc. The sound is detailed and well-balanced..." ClassicsToday |
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KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Piano Concerto ‘Resurrection’ & Flute Concerto Barry Douglas (piano) / Lukasz Dlugosz (flute) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] Scored for a large orchestra, including triple wind and a raft of percussion, Penderecki's Piano Concerto, heard here in its 2007 revision first performed by Barry Douglas, renews the composer's direct involvement with the 'grand' concerto tradition... |
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ALEXEY SHOR
Shor: Composer's Notebook, Vol. 2 - From My Bookshelf / Flute Concerto No. 1 Behzod Abduraimov (piano) Jasmine Choi (flute) / Kyiv Virtuosi Orchestra, Massimiliano Caldi, Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Feb/2025 ] A native of Ukraine, Alexey Shor now lives and works in New York. His music has received prestigious performances and recordings in collaboration with leading international musicians. Joining a long tradition of music inspired by literary sources,... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Flute Concerti Volume 1: Rv88-91, 96, 99, 107 Bela Drahos (flute) / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia [ Naxos Vivaldi Collection / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] Bela Drahos was born in Kaposvar in South-West Hungary in 1955 and entered the Gyor Conservatory in 1969, winning first prizes in the 1971 Concertino Prague International Flute Competition and, a year later, the flute competition staged by Hungarian... |
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LEONARDO BALADA
Balada: Caprichos Nos. 1 & 5 Bertrand Piertrand Piétu (guitar)/ Aldo Mata (cello)/ Tatiana Franco (flute) / Iberian Chamber Orchestra, José Luis Temes [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Catalan-born Leonardo Balada fuses tradition with modernity and folk with the avant-garde, producing music of stunning sonorities. Caprichos No. 1 pays homage to the poet Lorca in a blend of virtuosic writing and transformative dance rhythms. In... |
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EGON KORNAUTH / VALLY WEIGL / FRANZ MITTLER / FELIX PETYREK / TIBOR HARSÁNYI
The Bird of Life - Late Romantic Flute Music Birgit Ramsl (flute) with Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute), Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] During the last decade of the 19th century a generation of Central European composers emerged that was to exert a powerful influence on the current of contemporary music. Yet, for the most part, their works for flute remain little known and a number... |
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Boismortier
Sonatas For Flute [ Naxos / CD ] |
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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / TORU TAKEMITSU / BELA BARTOK / RAVI SHANKAR / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Music for Flute and Guitar Britta Jacobs (flute) Irene Kalisvaart (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] This album of 20th-century masterpieces for flute and guitar features works composed especially for this combination of instruments plus arrangements of works by Bartók and Ravi Shankar. |
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FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER
Flute Concertos, Volume 1 Bruno Meier (flute), Prague Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] As prolific a composer as Haydn, Franz Anton Hoffmeister was a formative figure in his day, also acting as a significant music publisher for Mozart and Beethoven. Meeting the tastes of the time with a perfect blend of grace and artistry, both of... |
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HOFFMEISTER
Flute Concertos, Volume 2 Bruno Meier (flute) Prague Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2014 ] Anyone who listens to Mozart or Haydn primarily for elegant melodies and rhythmic certainties will find Hoffmeister tasty. |
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WINTER / LACHNER / ROSETTI
German Flute Concertos Bruno Meier (flute) / Prague Chamber Orchestra / Antonin Hradil, leader [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The Prague Chamber Orchestra provides a well balanced orchestral accompaniment and maintains the quality heard in the soloist's playing. Highly enjoyable." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti - Double Concerto / Flute Concertino / Clarinet Concertino Budapest Camerata / Laszlo Kovacs (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] Gaetano Donizetti, while generally known only as a composer of operas, was in fact responsible for the composition of a great many other works, totalling 611 in all. Instrumental works make up a relatively small proportion of these and are apparently... |
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Capella Istropolitana/Dohnanyi
Vivaldi:famous Flute Concer [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Capella Istropolitana/Krechek
Vivaldi:flute & Piccolo Con [ Naxos / CD ] |
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MICHEL PIGNOLET de MONTECLAIR
Monteclair: Beloved and Betrayed - Miniature dramas for Flute and Voice Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano) Leela Breithaupt (flute) / Les Ordinaires [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737), a noted basse violon player in Paris, composed a small but exquisite body of innovative works in a variety of forms, including an opera-ballet. He was also an important figure in the composition of music for... |
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MICHAEL MEYNAUD
Meynaud: Chamber Music Cecile Dennaud (Piano) / Joseph Grau (Flute) / Jean-Jacques Jubin (Violin) / Oliver de Mones (Cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "My music is like a diary." Many of Michel Meynaud's works have personal references. A few titles refer explicitly to particular biographical episodes in his life - to his residences in Canada or Southern France (Malaucène) or his friends and family... |