Release Date: 05 May 2023
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0095115226520
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Shadow Dances - British Works for Flute
Description
For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams's Suite de ballet was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the premiere of Debussy's Syrinx). The work uses eighteenth-century French dance forms, a common practice in 'neo-classical' composition. Bax's Four Pieces rescue music from an abandoned ballet originally conceived for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Sir Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina was originally written for treble recorder; James Galway's championship of the piece made it a staple of the flute repertoire. Howard Fergusson's Three Sketches were composed intermittently over a period of twenty years. The theme of the third piece is a Hindu melody, 'Koyalinya bole ambuvan' (Cuckoos sing in the mango tree). Sonatas by York Bowen and William Alwyn complete this varied and engaging programme.
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Chad Smith; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Barry Douglas
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Eva Ollikainen
Madeleine Dring; Julius Drake
John Potter, tenor, Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, dir. Erik Westberg
Duo Rozemond & Bekkers: Reneee Bekkers, accordion Jacobien Rozemond, violin and voice
Pieter-Jan Belder/Rainer Zipperling
Max Volbers, Il Pomo d'Oro
Leslie Howard/Mattia Ometto
Dresdner Kreuzchor
David Bergmuller
Corina Marti/Capella Tiberina/Lorenzo Cavasanti/Tripla Concordia
