Luisa Sello & Bruno Canino – 20th-Century Middle European Flute Music (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Luisa Sello & Bruno Canino – 20th-Century Middle European Flute Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:35 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Classical
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These four central-European composers share a history of persecution and emigration but survived the worst excesses of the time. Their works for flute and piano reflect very different aesthetic positions. Schoenberg’s uncompromising Sonata for Flute and Piano is an arrangement of his Wind Quintet, Op. 26 of 1923–24 made a few years later by the Austrian composer Felix Greissle. The Suite by Ernst Křenek is delightfully neo-Classical, whilst the Czech Emil Burian crafted an eloquent, light-hearted work, heard here in its first recording. Paul Dessau’s Guernica was written for piano in 1937 and memorialises the tragedy of that bombed city.

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Luisa Sello, Bruno Canino, Myriam Dal Don, Giuseppe Mari – Beethoven: Flute Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Luisa Sello, Bruno Canino, Myriam Dal Don, Giuseppe Mari – Beethoven: Flute Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic

The programme on this release is completed by the arrangement for flute and piano of the slow movement from the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, a work Beethoven composed in 1798 and first published in 1800. The transcription is by Theobald Böhm (Munich, 17941881), a famous flute virtuoso and instrument maker, who developed a new type of metal flute which revolutionised the fingering system in use up to then and has remained virtually identical to this day. he programme on this release offers a comparison between two Serenades that Beethoven wrote for two different groups of instruments: the Serenade Op. 25 for flute, violin and viola and the Serenade Op. 41, which is a later version for flute and piano. Formally these two works are almost identical, but they differ in colour, phrasing and the role that was ascribed to each instrument.

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