French Flute Music

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Philippe Gaubert, Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, André Caplet, Francis Poulenc, (Paul-)Henri Büsser, Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns

Label: Classics

Magazine Review Date: 9/1992

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: CIMPC991

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Sonata No. 1 for Flute	Philippe Gaubert, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Philippe Gaubert, Composer Rebecca Holt, Piano
Rêverie et Petite Valse	André Caplet, Composer André Caplet, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Fantaisie	Gabriel Fauré, Composer Gabriel Fauré, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Romance	Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Prélude et Scherzo	(Paul-)Henri Büsser, Composer (Paul-)Henri Büsser, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano	Francis Poulenc, Composer Francis Poulenc, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Andante and Scherzo	Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Composer Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
(3) Pièces	Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Composer

Composer or Director: Philippe Gaubert, Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, André Caplet, Francis Poulenc, (Paul-)Henri Büsser, Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns

Label: Classics

Magazine Review Date: 9/1992

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 66

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: PCD991

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Sonata No. 1 for Flute	Philippe Gaubert, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Philippe Gaubert, Composer Rebecca Holt, Piano
Rêverie et Petite Valse	André Caplet, Composer André Caplet, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Fantaisie	Gabriel Fauré, Composer Gabriel Fauré, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Romance	Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Prélude et Scherzo	(Paul-)Henri Büsser, Composer (Paul-)Henri Büsser, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano	Francis Poulenc, Composer Francis Poulenc, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
Andante and Scherzo	Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Composer Albert (Charles Paul Marie) Roussel, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Rebecca Holt, Piano
(3) Pièces	Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Composer Peter Lloyd, Flute Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Composer

Author: mjameson

The flute playing of Peter Lloyd first attracted my admiration on EMI's pioneering 1979 digital recording of orchestral music by Debussy, with Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom Lloyd has served as principal flute for 25 years (the disc incidentally won Gramophone's Engineering Award that year). That record featured him as solo flautist in the Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, and he conveys similar sensuous and evanescent romanticism here, in this enjoyable collection of French music for flute and piano, in which he is joined by Rebecca Holt.
With the exception of the two sonatas, it must be said that the remaining works are, for the most part, charming but musically insubstantial; though they are certainly no less enjoyable for that. Henri Busser's Prelude et scherzo, for example, adopts the usual bipartite form, with the scherzo being an easy exercise in rhythmic and melodic inconsequence. Much the same could be said of the Caplet and Ferroud items; certainly effective in a limited context, but finally rather unfulfilling. Faure's Fantaisie, too, occupies similar territory, but in common with the Romance by Saint-Saens, its actual melodic worth places it on a somewhat higher plane.
Lloyd gives a superb performance of the Poulenc Sonata, easily the finest music on this disc, and reveals the more sinister undercurrents and restrained drama of this work to great effect, whilst the less-involving Gaubert Sonata, which opens this recital, is just as effectively presented. Albert Roussel's Andante et scherzo returns to the sort of familiar languor which is so very typical of this repertoire, but will certainly appeal in a reading of great sensitivity. Peter Lloyd and Rebecca Holt have been excellently recorded in the warm acoustic of London's Henry Wood Hall, an ideal venue for a production of this kind, and the technical accomplishments of the playing may be taken for granted.'