Michel Tirabosco, pan-flute – Flute de pan classique – Gallo Michel Tirabosco, pan-flute – Metissages – Gallo

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Michel Tirabosco, pan-flute – Flute de pan classique & strings (Best of, Vol. 1) – Gallo CD-1241. 69:09 **** [Distr. by Albany]:
Michel Tirabosco, pan-flute – Métissages (Best of, Vol. 3) – Gallo CD-1243. 69:00 **** [Distr. by Albany]:

Michel Tirabosco is an amazing virtuoso of the pan-flute who has been playing it professionally since age 14.  Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he travels the world performing in various aggregations from unaccompanied solo to full orchestra.  The credits for other musicians are a bit difficult to ascertain from the note booklets, but several of the recordings feature the Tirabosco Trio, which adds pianist Jean-Marie Reboul and bassist Franck Cottet Dumoulin. There are guitarist, choruses, string quartet, harp, and on the first disc that traditional accompaniment for the pan-flute, pipe-organ. The organist is André Luy and Tirabosco’s first recording was made in Lausanne with him; he now has a dozen CDs out (I seem to have missed Vol. 2 of this series).

The first volume is devoted to classical works transcribed for the instrument.  Those originally for solo violin or flute work perfectly with the pan-flute.  I like that Tirabosco doesn’t perform the same selections as previous classical pan-flute CDs such as Zamfir’s.  Many on the third volume are shorter works; the lengthier are the two Piazzolla selections as well as the closing two Romanian folk collections, and these are the highlights of the CD. Tirabosco creates a wonderfully seductive sound-world which can be listened to very closely or used as a classy background. It’s especially good in the car.

TrackList, Vol. 1:
1. Sonata for Flute in F major: 1st movement, Vivace – Georg Philipp Telemann
2. Sonata for Flute in F major: 2nd movement, Largo         ”
3. Sonata for Flute in F major: 3rd movement, Allegro       “
4. Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe and Bassoon in G minor, RV 103: 1st movement, Allegro ma cantabile – Antonio Vivaldi
5. Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe and Bassoon in G minor, RV 103: 2nd movement, Largo
6. Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe and Bassoon in G minor, RV 103: 3rd movement, Allegro molto
7. Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in C major, QV 1 no 9: 1st movement, Affettuoso – Johann Joachim Quantz
8. Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in C major, QV 1 no 9: 2nd movement, Alla breve
9. Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in C major, QV 1 no 9: 3rd movement, Larghetto
10. Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in C major, QV 1 no 9: 4th movement, Vivace
11. Sinfonia no 3: 1st movement, Allegro – Anonymous
12. Sinfonia no 3: 2nd movement, Adagio
13. Sinfonia no 3: 3rd movement, Giga
14. Sinfonia no 3: 4th movement, Minuet
15. Sonata for Flute: 1st movement, Allegro moderato – G. Reid
16. Sonata for Flute: 2nd movement, Largo
17. Orfeo ed Euridice: Les Champs-Elysées – Christoph Willibald Gluck
18. Sonata for Flute in F major: 1st movement, Largo – Henry Thornowitz
19. Sonata for Flute in F major: 2nd movement, Gavotta – vivace
20. Sonata for Flute in F major: 3rd movement, Air – Largo 
21. Sonata for Flute in F major: 4th movement, Minuet 
22. Sonata for Flute in F major: 5th movement, Giga
23. Duets (6), Op. 63: no 2, Abschiedslied der Zugvögel – Felix Mendelssohn
24. Character Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 7: no 7 in E major – Felix Mendelssohn
25. Carnival of the animals: no 13, The Swan – Camille Saint-Saëns
26. Berceuse for Violin and Piano in D major, Op. 16 – Gabriel Fauré
27. Pièce en forme de Habañera – Maurice Ravel

TrackList, Vol. 3:
Piazza Vittoria – Machado
Sel. from Histoire du Tango – Piazzolla
Apres les retrouvailles – Mayer-Perrenoud
Uri Tzion – trad. klezmer
Weeping Willow (ragtime) – Joplin
A l’aube du sixieme jour – Medawar
Le Grand Tango – Piazzolla
‘Na sera’e Maggio – Cioffi
Marechiare – Tosti
Marenarielo – Gambardella
Three popular Roumanian Melodies – trad.
Three popular Roumanian Dances – trad.

 – John Sunier
 

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