The Birds Dream in the Trees William Dowdall

• Eugène Bozza (1905 - 1991): IMAGE:
• 1 Bozza: IMAGE 03:54
• Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950): Flute sonata no 1 M1 Allegro:
• 2 Koechlin: Flute sonata no 1 M1 Allegro 01:46
• Flute sonata no 1 M2 Andantino:
• 3 Koechlin: Flute sonata no 1 M2 Andantino 01:27
• Flute sonata no 1 M3
• 4 Koechlin: Flute sonata no 1 M3 03:09
• Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962): PIECE:
• 5 Ibert: PIECE 04:46
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): SYRINX:
• 6 Debussy: SYRINX 02:25
• Charles Koechlin: Sonata for two flutes M1:
• 7 Koechlin: Sonata for two flutes M1 03:56
• Sonata for two flutes M2:
• 8 Koechlin: Sonata for two flutes M2 00:58
• Sonata for two flutes M3:
• 9 Koechlin: Sonata for two flutes M3 03:14
• Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875 - 1962): Suite Mythologique M1 Pan:
• 10 Lorenzo: Suite Mythologique M1 Pan 01:37
• Suite Mythologique M2 Marsyas:
• 11 Lorenzo: Suite Mythologique M2 Marsyas 02:40
• Suite Mythologique M3 Apollo:
• 12 Lorenzo: Suite Mythologique M3 Apollo 05:49
• Sonata for solo flute No 2 M1:
• 13 Lorenzo: Sonata for solo flute No 2 M1 03:19
• Charles Koechlin: Sonata for solo flute no 2 M2
• 14 Koechlin: Sonata for solo flute no 2 M2 02:15
• Sonata for Solo Flute No 2 M3:
• 15 Koechlin: Sonata for Solo Flute No 2 M3 05:09
• Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900 - 1936): 3 Pieces for solo flute:
• 16 Ferroud: 3 Pieces for solo flute 01:55
• 3 Pieces M2 Jade:
• 17 Ferroud: 3 Pieces M2 Jade 01:51
• 3 Pieces M3 Toan-Yan:
• 18 Ferroud: 3 Pieces M3 Toan-Yan 03:54
• Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944): Piece Romantique:
• 19 Chaminade: Piece Romantique 02:18
• John Buckley (b. 1951): Les Oiseaux Rêvent dans les Arbres:
• 20 Buckley: Les Oiseaux Rêvent dans les Arbres 04:35
• Charles Koechlin: Flute sonata No 3 M3:
• 21 Koechlin: Flute sonata No 3 M3 03:20
• Flute sonata No 3 M2 Sicilienne:
• 22 Koechlin: Flute sonata No 3 M2 Sicilienne 02:11
• Flute Sonata No 3 M3:
• 23 Koechlin: Flute Sonata No 3 M3 02:58
• Total Runtime 01:09:26

Info zu The Birds Dream in the Trees

An album celebrating a special flute, a fine Louis Lot instrument made in Paris in the 1890s and sounding exquisite in the hands of Irish flutist William Dowdall. A French oriented program of solo flute writing ranging from the virtuoso to the contemplative - Bozza, Debussy, Ibert, de Lorenzo, etc.

The idea for this album came from a flute I acquired about 20 years ago in New York City, an instrument made in the 19th century by the French flute-maker Louis Lot. Lot had acquired a licence form Theobald Boehm to make flutes in France, and worked in Paris through the mid to late 19th century. I felt very lucky to acquire this instrument. It was initially in bad condition but was expertly restored by Richard Mattingly in London. We made no attempt to “improve” it in any way, restoring it to its original condition; it has not, over the years, been altered at all.

This beautiful instrument is made of silver, and every key is hallmarked. I assume it could have been made for a player in the Paris Opera, on the grounds that the pitch is a little higher than the modern standard. Until the mid 19th century flutes were predominantly made from wood, with about10% silver. By the end of the century the opposite was the case. This type of flute was the instrument loved by Debussy and Ravel, and other especially continental composers. Its existence and popularity generated an awful lot of flute music. The composers recorded on this album personify the growth of a new interest in the ancient instrument, the flute. Indeed there was a flowering of new works in a very European genre. The flute in the early 19th century had been virtually consigned to gentlemen’s clubs, but was now emancipated by composers such as those recorded here. (William Dowdall)

William Dowdall, flute
Adrianna Lis, flute

William Dowdall
Dublin born William Dowdall, one of Ireland’s leading musicians, combines a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

He trained in Cleveland, Ohio, where his teachers included Maurice Sharp of the Cleveland Orchestra, and his interest in new music was sparked by Donald Erb, composer in residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music. On returning to Ireland at the age of 21 he was appointed principal flute of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. From 1979 to 2004 he was principal flute of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He was appointed professor of flute at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2004.

He has given over 50 solo performances with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and Irish Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared at all the major festivals in Ireland.

He has been a member of the Daedalus Wind Quintet, Ulysses Ensemble, and the Ulysses Wind Quintet which was a prize-winner in the Colmar International Chamber Music Competition in 1980. As a chamber musician he has also guested with the RTÉ Vanbrugh and Parisii string quartets.

Solo performances abroad have taken him around Europe, and to the USA, China, and New Zealand, and Australia. His work has been broadcast extensively by the Irish public service broadcaster, RTÉ, and he has also broadcast on BBC radio and television, Australian Television, and Shanghai Radio.

In addition to a wide ranging repertoire, his interest in contemporary music led him to develop a workshop based on contemporary solo flute music by Irish composers, which has been presented in Europe, United States, New Zealand, and Australia to considerable acclaim. He has introduced Irish audiences to new works from the international repertoire, and has actively promoted the music of Irish composers abroad. Many Irish composers have written works for him and he premiered a new work by John Buckley for flute and orchestra with the RTÉ NSO and toured with it around Ireland in 2006 and performed it again with the NSO in January 2009.

In the last 2 years alone he has given 8 world premieres of works by Irish composers and has espoused the flute music of composers such as Bernstein, Boulez, Takemitsu, Henze, Varèse, and Maxwell Davies in Ireland. He recently gave the Irish premiere of Takemitsu's “I Can Hear the Water Dreaming” with the RTÉ NSO.

As a solo artist he has made critically-acclaimed recordings for Goasco, Naxos, Marco Polo, Black Box, and Celestial Harmonies labels and is currently involved in a project with Atoll Records to record Irish and New Zealand works for solo flute and flute and electronics.

He plays on a platinum flute by Brannen, a wooden flute by Abell, a Louis Lot dated 1891 and an alto flute by Eva Kingma.

Adrianna Lis
The Polish/New Zealand principal flutist of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra began her musical training in Poland with Anna Kolarz and Barbara Mazurkiewicz continuing years later studies at the Wroclaw Academy of Music with the renowned prof. Jerzy Mrozik.

While still a student at Wroclaw she won a scholarship to work closely with previous principal flutist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, James Walker at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, USA.

She also spent intensive solo and orchestral studies with Jean Claude Gerard at the Die Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart in 1995.

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