Gaubert: Works For Flute, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8557306

Release Date: 06 January 2004

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313230624

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: GAUBERT

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Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941)Complete Works for Flute, Volume 2In the mid-nineteenth century the German jeweller, goldsmithand flutist Theobald Boehm applied his considerable talents to the improvementof the flute. The result, after several decades of research andexperimentation, was an instrument with greatly improved intonation and aversatile, dependable mechanism. It could be built with a tube of either woodor metal - typically silver. The Boehm flute had a wider compass and a widerdynamic range, and was capable of greater virtuosity than its predecessors,thus providing the greater brilliance and carrying power required inever-larger orchestras and concert halls. Especiallywhen built of silver, the Boehm flute was also found to be more responsive tosubtle shadings of timbre, colour, and intensity, characteristics firstexploited by the French. The sinuous, slowly unfurling solo line of Debussy'sL'apr?¿s-midi d'un faune, first given in 1894, proved the flute capable of aradically new range of expression. Debussy and his compatriot Maurice Ravel,the great orchestral colourists of the early twentieth century, developed andexpanded the capabilities of the instrument in a wealth of memorable orchestralpassages. Each also contributed to the repertoire of the flute in more intimatesettings, Debussy most notably with the incidental music to Les chansons deBilitis (1901), the famous Syrinx for solo flute (1913), and the Sonata forflute, viola and harp (1915), and Ravel with Trois po?¿mes de Mallarme andChansons madecasses.This heady climate of flute innovation coincided with theearly maturity of the distinguished French flutist, composer, conductor andpedagogue Philippe Gaubert. Born in 1879, the fifteen-year-old virtuoso earnedhis first prize for flute at the Paris Conservatoire just months before thepremi?¿re of L'apr?¿s-midi d'un faune. In 1903 he received a first prize infugue, and just two years later he won the Prix de Rome, distinguishing himselffrom the many competent if unexceptional flutist-composers produced by theConservatoire. Despite his later professorship at the Paris Conservatoire andhis conducting commitments at the Opera and Societe des Concerts, Gaubertcomposed throughout his lifetime, producing dozens of chamber and orchestralworks, several ballets and other stage works, and a large corpus of chansons.Although Gaubert's strongest compositional influence wasFaure, he soon incorporated the innovations of Debussy and Ravel in such flutepieces as Soir pa?»en and Medailles antiques (Volume I of this series) and Deuxesquisses (Vol. III). Honegger, Koechlin, Ibert, and a few others contributedflute pieces in a similar vein, but Gaubert created almost single-handedly arepertoire of sonatas, chamber works and shorter pieces that reflect therevolution in flute playing initiated by Debussy's L'apr?¿s-midi d'un faune.In the Sonata of 1917 Gaubert takes the unus
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