Having bought some Murray Perahia Mozart Piano Concertos CDs recently at our local dump, I referred to the backs to find out more. They are Sony issues recorded in analogue with the ECO. Some of the wind playing is really lovely - and in one of them - is it number 22? - the flute playing is truly beautiful.
Do we have any knowledge still of who the instrumentalists might have been on those CDs?
There are different ways of playing the flute, and perhaps that style of playing is less fashionable now. It’s not the only way to play, but it did make this listener prick his ears up, which rather few players do nowadays. I think also of a concert I attended in Sweden with the Gothenburg SO, and again the flute player on that occasion had a stand out gorgeous sound and way of playing which my friends also remarked upon. Perhaps we are less used to hearing players with real character these days - maybe too much effort to blend in??!!
Do we have any knowledge still of who the instrumentalists might have been on those CDs?
There are different ways of playing the flute, and perhaps that style of playing is less fashionable now. It’s not the only way to play, but it did make this listener prick his ears up, which rather few players do nowadays. I think also of a concert I attended in Sweden with the Gothenburg SO, and again the flute player on that occasion had a stand out gorgeous sound and way of playing which my friends also remarked upon. Perhaps we are less used to hearing players with real character these days - maybe too much effort to blend in??!!
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