Adam Walker, Huw Watkins – Shadow Dances, British Works for Flute (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Adam Walker, Huw Watkins – Shadow Dances, British Works for Flute (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos

For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams’s Suite de ballet was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the première of Debussy’s Syrinx). The work uses eighteenth-century French dance forms, a common practice in ‘neo-classical’ composition. Bax’s Four Pieces rescue music from an abandoned ballet originally conceived for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Sir Lennox Berkeley’s Sonatina was originally written for treble recorder; James Galway’s championship of the piece made it a staple of the flute repertoire. Howard Fergusson’s Three Sketches were composed intermittently over a period of twenty years. The theme of the third piece is a Hindu melody, ‘Koyalinya bole ambuvan’ (Cuckoos sing in the mango tree). Sonatas by York Bowen and William Alwyn complete this varied and engaging programme.

Tracklist:

1. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Miniature Suite: I. Humoresque (:) (04:27)
2. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Miniature Suite: II. Romance (07:08)
3. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Miniature Suite: III. Scherzo (04:59)
4. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Williams: Suite de Ballet: I. Improvisation (01:56)
5. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Williams: Suite de Ballet: II. Humoresque (01:11)
6. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Williams: Suite de Ballet: III. Gavotte (01:11)
7. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Williams: Suite de Ballet: IV. Passepied (01:52)
8. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Berkeley: Sonatina, Op. 13: I. Moderato (04:20)
9. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Berkeley: Sonatina, Op. 13: II. Adagio (03:29)
10. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Berkeley: Sonatina, Op. 13: III. Allegro moderato (02:16)
11. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Alwyn: Sonata: I. Slow (03:27)
12. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Alwyn: Sonata: II. Adagio tranquillo (01:28)
13. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Alwyn: Sonata: III. Allegro ritmico e feroce (02:53)
14. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bax: Four Pieces: I. Shadow Dance (03:26)
15. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bax: Four Pieces: II. The Princess Dances (01:40)
16. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bax: Four Pieces: III. Naiad (04:58)
17. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bax: Four Pieces: IV. Grotesque (02:20)
18. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Ferguson: Three Sketches: I. Proco allegro (01:19)
19. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Ferguson: Three Sketches: II. Andante (02:33)
20. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Ferguson: Three Sketches: III. Con moto (01:10)
21. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Sonata, Op. 120: I. Allegro (09:05)
22. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Sonata, Op. 120: II. Andante piacevole (05:19)
23. Adam Walker & Huw Watkins – Bowen: Sonata, Op. 120: III. Allegro con fuoco (04:50)

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