Listen & tracks
2 of 18 tracks have a preview · 14 works · 72:48
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1 Variations on Doen Daphne d'over schoone maeght Jacob van Eyck 6:26
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2 Alone in a strange place Anne Norman 4:33
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3 Irish & English folk songs Traditional 8:31
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4 Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin François Couperin Le rossignol-en-amour 7:29
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5 Tsuru no sugomori (nesting cranes) Traditional 8:49
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6 Music for a bird Hans-Martin Linde 5:45
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7 Shika no tone (distant cries of deer) Traditional 3:10
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8 Flute Concerto in D major, RV 428 “Il gardellino” Antonio Vivaldi Cadenza :56
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9 Koden Sugomori (nesting song) Traditional 1:23
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10 Ecoutez les sons touchants de la tendre Philomel from Ile de Délos Louis-Nicolas Clérambault 1:56
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11 Japanese folk songs Traditional 7:59
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12 Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 Johann Sebastian Bach Sarabande 5:25
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13 Spaces Anne Norman 4:11
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14 Daphne-bushi Greg Dikmans 6:15
A meeting-point of European and Japanese traditions, Breath of Creation – flutes of two worlds – journeys through traditional folk melodies from England, Ireland and Japan to the European art music of Bach, Couperin and Vivaldi. Along the way come eastern meditations and collaborative improvisations by the performers themselves.
Detailed liner notes on the compositions and on the place these instruments hold in Eastern and Western culture give insight into the collaborative creativity of two Australian musicians from two very different worlds.
Reviews
The measure of the success of this recording is that it leaves one listening not just to the musical works themselves but to those further and more distant musics of the spheres.
I highly recommend this CD to anyone with a penchant for the mystical, the unusual and the unexpected. The performances are first rate.
Artists
Greg Dikmans
baroque flute, recorder
Greg Dikmans is a virtuoso of the baroque flute and recorder, and a conductor, educator and scholar who has long been at the forefront of the Early Music movement in Australia.
Anne Norman
shakuhachi
Anne Norman is a performer, improviser, composer and teacher of shakuhachi based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance artist across music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording.
Johann Sebastian Bach
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.
François Couperin
composer
François Couperin (1668–1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand. Organist to Louis XIV and to Saint-Gervais in Paris, he remains the supreme French master of the harpsichord.
Antonio Vivaldi
composer
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, priest and virtuoso violinist. He is best known for his instrumental concertos, above all the violin cycle The Four Seasons.
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
composer
Jacob van Eyck
composer
Hans-Martin Linde
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Greg Dikmans · baroque flute, recorder
- Anne Norman · shakuhachi
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 72 minutes 48 seconds
- Release date
- 1995
- Categories
- Baroque, Cross-cultural
- Genres
- World & Cross-cultural, Baroque, Folk
- Musical work copyright
- © 1995 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1995 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3163
- EAN
- 9314574316322
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