At the moment I am working on my Performance Investigation for my A-Level Music and I am struggling to find a recording of the piece I am investigating on a Baroque flute. The piece is:
Quantz Flute Concerto in G Major; I: Allegro, II: Arioso e mesto, III: Presto.
I was wondering if you have ever come across a baroque flute recording of this piece as I am hoping to do a comparason of a modern day flute interpretation and one that is played on a baroque flute, perhaps trying to fit to the original perception of how the piece should be played.
I have been pointed in the direction of Rachel Brown but she has not recorded a version of this concerto that I can find.
I would be very greatful for any advice or help you could give with this as I am finding it very difficult!
Recordings sections, Search composer: Quantz.
You may find something by Rachel Brown, http://fluteworld.com/index.php?action=prod&wart=33255
as opposed to more traditional versions by Galway, Rampal, Grag, Nicolet and such
A shame that you aren't doing Telemann:
This recording would give you a fairly direct comparison in one box:
It will cost you 9.99 Euro the complete album or just 1.99 + 1.99 + 0.99 for the three tracks you are interested in.
(if you connect form USA, they will give the price in US$, probably the same amount and you save some 45% compared to paying in Eu.)
You can listen to short excerpts of the 3 parts before buying.
Good luck
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You have to check if this is Baroque Flute or not (the tuning of the recording will show it easily, I suppose)
Thanks very much for all your help.. but the Rachel Brown one suggested above is not the correct concerto.. and the suggestion below that is not on a baroque flute, although I am going to use that version to make a comparason between that and the baroque flute version (when I find it!)
It's funny that I had been looking for a version of the Haendel flute sonatas on modern flute and could only find versions on older flutes... But I finally found one by Paula Robinson.
Just in case they might have recorded the Quantz concert, the artists I found playing older flutes(presumably the baroque flute as per the tuning, though not sure) for those Haendel sonatas were:
- Lisa Beznosiuk (Hyperium, www.hyperium-records.co.uk)
- Spehen Preston (Brilliant Classics))
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