Pergolesi / Galuppi / Galway - Flute Concerti - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vivaldi / Galway,James - 6 Flute Concerti [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/31/2007

The 1st clash of the necks from polymath guitarists MacKay & Walker, taped live at Chicago's own Whistler Bar, for on the Whistler tag. Reissued by us 'cause of these dudes' uncanny alchemy and their constant, ever-melding flow. It's an imperative there's not enough records around with such intense properties! Coincidentally, it came out 10 years ago. Big deal! We'd have done it when it was only 9 years old too - we just got busy, okay?

The most influential and prolific composer of concertos during the Baroque was the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). He composed approximately 500 concertos for one or more soloists, including about 350 solo concertos. He was one of the first composers to focus on the transverse flute as a viable solo instrument. Frank Theuns here combines one work (La notte, RV 439) from the famous opus 10 collection with the Concertos RV 440 and 441, both of which have survived as manuscripts in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin, Italy. The programme also contains concertos by Baldassare Galuppi - the manuscript of his Flute Concerto in D major (GroF 675) is preserved at the Mecklenburgische Landesbibliothek in Schwerin, Germany - and Tomaso Albinoni, whose Concerto in D minor from opus 9, originally written for oboe, is performed on this recording on the flute.