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VA - Big Flute Box (2014)

VA - Big Flute Box (2014)

BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists

  • Title: Big Flute Box
  • Year Of Release: 2014
  • Label: eOne Music
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 7:34:18
  • Total Size: 2.13 GB
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Why so much attention to the flute repertoire in the Vanguard/Bach Guild catalog? And, to further complicate, why is most of the repertoire well outside the usual baroque-era specialization that helped to define the label? In fact, there is less than 2 hours of baroque and classical era flute music played on original instruments (Tafelmusik, Production III with Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien). However, as the potential buyer of this Big Flute Box can see, the Bach Guild can easily offer over 10 hours of flute repertoire.

Some of the answer comes from the role of the record label in the 1950s – labels rushed to offer “their” versions of the standard repertoire, or, with flute repertoire, commercially viable recordings that might be just slightly off the mainstream path.

The recordings during this time frame feature Julius Baker, the first chair flutist from the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, and head of the Curtis School of Music’s flute program. His recordings were all orchestral, and were made with I Solisti di Zagreb. Baker covered the complete orchestral works for flute of Mozart, and assorted flute works were used as filler for those three LPs.

Baker referred one of his star pupils to Seymour Solomon, and Vanguard was able to expand its flute catalog using the talents of Paula Robison. Having covered most of the “commercial” flute repertoire, Robison’s recordings for Vanguard are all in the recital vein. The heart of her excellent contributions to the Vanguard catalog are the complete flute sonatas of J.S. Bach and George Frederic Handel. Together with world-class partners Kenneth Cooper and Timothy Eddy, these recordings have been a bedrock of Vanguard’s catalog for over 30 years.

Paula Robison’s adventurous repertoire pushed Vanguard into recording flute music well outside the brand name composers, and much of that fine music is featured here, again with top-notch accompanists like the Tokyo String Quartet and pianist Samuel Sanders. All of this material has been released on CD, but this Big Box does mark much of its appearance in digital download form.

Classical | FLAC / APE

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  • mufty77
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