Mon, 22 December 2014
Flute player and conductor of Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko, demonstrates some favorite flutes from his collection. He takes us from the modern flute through the renaissance, baroque, classical and romantic periods. Some are copies of historical instruments made by modern instrument makers, and some are original instruments from the period. He tells the stories of these very special instruments, how he found them, about each of their specific idiosyncrasies, and which period and type of music they would be played for. Alexis has a collection of 65 flutes, representing each period of the history of the flute. Take this special opportunity to hear about some of the instruments from his collection!
Direct download: _The_Fidelio_Podcast_Ep._15_Alexis_Kossenko_Demonstrates_Flutes.mp3
Category:Early Music -- posted at: 6:27pm CEST
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An EPIC piece of Internet Journalism! I will have to go back and listen to it several times to catch a couple of SIGNIFICANT quotes. I wonder what Quantz really thought about the A and the F on the baroque horn. There are those who give up in exasperation and say that the A is neither an A or a G# in any tuning system and that the F is neither an F or an F# in any tuning system. Good natural horn players READ Quantz and all the other books on the subject from Virdung 1511 to Richard Strauss' translation of Berlioz in 1907. I have been studying the amazing collections of autographs by Fasch, Zelenka, Graun, Torri and, above all, GRAUPNER with so many autograph scores and autograph parts that go along with them. I have made my peace with the F and the A on the baroque horn but I am also just getting into the later works by Graupner in which he begins writing more and more LONG, HELD-OUT TONES. A pair of baroque horns holding out a third comprising a baroque horn F and a baroque horn A over a number of measures must have produced a very great deal of LONGING in the ears of people like Quantz or an almost irresistible urge to CUSS & SWEAR in a way that would have made the devil, himself, run and hide under the bed. Please give my best regards to Alexis Kossenko. He put some things into words that others have not done so well.
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