Author: Bobo
Date: 2007-01-12 22:47
The IDRS website has some interesting videos of the 2005 conference (membership required)....Florent Charreyre, the winner of the Fox-Gillet Competition that year plays the Strauss. As a recent product of the French Conservatory system, his playing is perhaps a good example of the French sound of today. From listening to him, i would conclude that he's probably a good example of the "convergence" effect, though still unmistakeably European to my ears - he has a singing tone with a bit of nasal edge and spread. I find that Nancy Ambrose King also has a bit of "spread" in her tone that is not particularly American - she is so musical that it just becomes part of her personality as a player. If you have access to the website there are many other well known players (Nicholas Daniel, Gordon Hunt, and there's also Alex Klein playing the Bolling Suite for Flute which is a hoot and gives him a chance to show what he can do in the upper register...I already like it more than the flute versions! Speaking of which, one of Klein's best records (besides the Strauss with CSO/Barenboim which is just amazingly beautiful and really unique - his first movement is at a slower tempo than usual and just really lyrical) is the Fantasias/Partitas album: his rendition of the Telemann Fantasias (also written for Flute) is incredible, but what's interesting is that his playing is almost trumpetlike in tone).
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