Patrick Gallois - Harp Concerto / Flute Concerto - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The hardest-working man in showbiz, three time Grammy.-award winner Christian McBride brings back another installment of his acoustic jazz group, Inside Straight. This sojourn is augmented by a couple youngsters on the rise Ulyssess Owens, Jr.. and Christian Sands, whom play on two tracks the remainder handled with the usual aplomb by Messrs. Steve Wilson, Warren Wolf, Peter Martin and Carl Allen.

Brothers Franz and Karl Doppler were both accomplished flautists. Their compositions, sometimes written together, reflect the tastes of the period, making great use of Hungarian themes.

Once attributed to the young Beethoven, the German composer and cellist Friedrich Witt’s Symphony in C Major is a splendid example of symphonic writing from a time when this form was achieving both prestige and popularity with a growing music-loving public. His delightful Symphony in A Major, with its deftly-written opera buff a finale, and sparkling Flute Concerto likewise show the skills of a masterful composer whose career spanned the climax of the Classical and the birth of the Romantic eras. For Naxos, renowned flautist and conductor Patrick Gallois has also recorded C.P.E. Bach’s complete Flute Concertos (8.555715–16), Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 1–5 (8.557571) and Gounod’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (8.557463), among other works.