Shadow Dances - Britis... - Adam Walker - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

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, ‘Koyaliňya bole ambuvaň’ (Cuckoos sing in the mango tree). Sonatas by York Bowen and William Alwyn complete this varied and engaging programme.

Tracklist

1. York Bowen: Sonata Op.120
2. York Bowen: Miniature Suite
3. Arnold Bax: Four Pieces
4. Howard Ferguson: Three Sketches
5. Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina Op.13
6. William Alwyn: Sonata
7. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Suite De Ballet

Label: Chandos | Origin: Holland

📌 .. Works For Flute / Works By Bowen/Ferguson/Alwyn/A.O.