Terfel

[Princess Hello]

I was thinking of the two works on this CD http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/168353.

The remarkable Roberto Fabbriciani plays the hyperbass flute on this http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//WWE1CD20254.htm!

Thanks!

I have been fascinated by bass flutes ever since walking at an impressionable age past a shop in New York,in the window of which was a big red sign, which read: 'GRAND BASS FLUTE SALE!'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is the "hyperbass Flute" the same as the "Contrabass Flute": that elaborate piece of plumbing that looks like a large bathroom towel heater and sounds like a distant, breathy Siren, luring unwary seafarers onto the rocks?

Carla Rees used to own the only(?) such instrument in the UK before this:

http://www.justflutes.com/fund-for-c...es-page66.html

[Princess Hello]

At the risk of getting intolerably far from Bryn Terfel, there is, now I think of it, wonderful bass and alto flute on Morton Feldman's late trio pieces, like Why Patterns?, Crippled Symmetry and For Philip Guston. The last, although a challenge at nearly four and a half hours long, is in my humble opinion one of the defining works by one of the very greatest composers of the century.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I find this all much more interesting than squabbling over Bryn Terfel, oh Royal Greeting!

Totally agree with you about Feldman; anyone who "gets" For Philip Guston won't have a problem with Nono.

[John Skelton]

That was a terrible thing - I hope the donations for Carla Rees are coming in. Here's a small picture of Fabbriciani with the beast http://musiccatalog.info/wp-content/...hyperbass1.jpg

For Philip Guston. The last, although a challenge at nearly four and a half hours long, is in my humble opinion one of the defining works by one of the very greatest composers of the century.

[Bryn]

For Philip Guston. The last, although a challenge at nearly four and a half hours long, is in my humble opinion one of the defining works by one of the very greatest composers of the century.

I'll drink to that, though I have only ever heard it via the recordings by the California EAR Unit (Bridge) and Breuer, Engler & Schramel on Wergo. One day ...

In the meantime, I take it you will be in Glasgow next spring for the Smith Quartet playing SQ2.

Oh, I forgot to mention, re. bring the bass flute up in the mix, that I heard no such need when Nigel Osborne's Sinfonia (number 1) was premièred at the Proms in 1982.

[Princess Hello]

I'll drink to that, though I have only ever heard it via the recordings by the California EAR Unit (Bridge) and Breuer, Engler & Schramel on Wergo. One day ...

In the meantime, I take it you will be in Glasgow next spring for the Smith Quartet playing SQ2.

Oh, I forgot to mention, re. bring the bass flute up in the mix, that I heard no such need when Nigel Osborne's Sinfonia (number 1) was premièred at the Proms in 1982.

I have the Hat Now recording with Eberhard Blum, Nils Vigeland and Jan Williams.

SQ2 in Glasgow sounds unmissable. Do you have a link?