MENDELSSOHN
Flute Concerto in D minor / Flute Sonatas Marc Grauwels (Flute) / Wallonie Royal Chamber Orchestra / Jean-Francois Chamberlan (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] The present release includes transcriptions for flute by Marc Grauwels of early compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, a violin concerto and two sonatas for violin and piano, a new adaptation that is closer to the original version. |
AARON JAY KERNIS
Kernis: Flute Concerto / Air / Second Symphony Marina Piccinini (flute) / Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "Piccinini's performance of Air will take your breath away. I was also left breathless at the brilliance and precision of the Peabody Orchestra." Fanfare |
Martinu
Flute Trios-Promenades [ Naxos / CD ] |
CIARDI
Music For Flute Massimiliano Damerini / Roberto Fabbriciani / Friuli Venezia Giulia Symphony Orchestra / Stefan Fraas (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] By all accounts a truly virtuoso performer known as “the Paganini of the flute”, the Italian Cesare Ciardi wrote principally for his own instrument, his works forming the basis of acclaimed concert performances |
KAGEL
Mauricio Kagel: Works for Flute Michael Faust (flute) & Paulo Álvares (piano) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä & Ensemble Contrasts/ Robert HP Platz & Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Arriving in Europe from Buenos Aires in 1957, Mauricio Kagel soon developed his own subversive and theatrical musical aesthetics. Performed here by the work's dedicatee, Das Konzert is his typically oblique response to writing a flute concerto,... |
PETERIS VASKS
Flute Concerto, etc Michael Faust (flute) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Sheila Arnold (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Lithuanian composer PÄ“teris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto (written for Michael Faust), which is among the... |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
KAI NIEMINEN
Palomar / Clarinet Concerto (Through Shadows I Can Hear Ancient Voices) / Vicoli in ombra Mikko Raasakka (clarinet) / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois (flute and conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced something attempts to give that something a shape in music." - Kai Nieminen |
TOURNIER / SCHMITT / PIERNE / FRANCAIX / ROUSSEL
French Flute Chamber Music Mirage Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "The recording is demonstration-class, ideally capturing both the flute's highest leaps and the harp's resonating echoes." (MusicWeb Jan 2010) |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Sonata for Flute & Harp / Quintet for harp and strings / etc Mobius [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2001 ] "This beautifully executed collection of Arnold Bax's chamber music with harp provides a very timely appendix to Naxos's cycle of his symphonies" - The Guardian |
W. A. MOZART
Flute Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Concerto for Flute & Harp Patrick Gallois (flute) Fabrice Pierre (harp) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Patrick Gallois (flute), Fabrice Pierre (harp) |
ERNEST BLOCH
4 Episodes / 2 Poems / Concertino / Suite Modale Noam Buchman (flute) / Slovak Radio Symphony / Atlas Camerata Orchestra / Dalia Atlas [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] "All the performances from the various groups are excellent and the recorded sound is consistently superb. If you think Bloch wrote only Schelomo, you should sample this disc." (MusicWeb Nov 2007) |
GIULIANI
Flute & Guitar Duets Nora Shulman, flute / Norbert Kraft, guitar [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] "The performances here, if not exploding with star-power virtuosity, nonetheless catch the charm and intimacy of the scorings with good taste. A fun CD." - Nora Shulman, The State, 10 February 2002 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dance Of The Blessed Spirits Nora Shulman (flute), Judy Loman (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] Ever since the Renaissance imagined an Arcadian paradise of rustic pan-pipes and sweet-plucked Orphean lyres, the fancifully associative sound and visual interplay of flute and harp has drawn composers and arrangers, with Mozart's alluring duo... |
Oleskiewicz/Concerto Armonico/
Quantz: Flute Concertos [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
Ostry/M Nostitz Quartet
Ryba: Flute Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
SAVERIO MERCADANTE
Mercadante: Flute Concertos, Vol. 2 Patrick Gallois (flute), Kazunori Seo (flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jul/2018 ] Although operas make up the most substantial part of Mercadante's catalogue, his technically challenging flute concertos are notable examples of 19th-century Italian instrumental music, effectively closing the Classical period for this instrument.... |
POULENC / MESSIAEN / BOULEZ / SANCAN / DUTILLEUX
Flute Sonata / Le Merle Noir / Sonatine Patrick Gallois (flute) / Lydia Wong (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Much to enjoy here and very nearly an unqualified recommendation. This disc is not only for flautists, but should provide much enjoyment and stimulation for all. Just don't turn the disc off after the Dutilleux!" -- Colin Clarke, MusicWeb, 29... |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Sonatas (arranged for flute and piano) Patrick Gallois (flute) & Maria Prinz (piano) [ NAXOS / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] The sonatas performed on this disc were written much later for violin but, using that earlier precedent, have been transcribed for fl ute by one of the world's greatest exponents of the instrument, Patrick Gallois. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Works for Flute 1 Patrick Gallois (flute) Mitsuo Kodama (bassoon), Asuka Sezaki, Koichi Komine [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Ludwig van Beethoven stands as a giant in music history for his great symphonies, piano sonatas and string quartets, and the challenges of deafness later in life. This programme shows the younger Beethoven's facility as a creator of light and... |