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Nouvelle Vie - A Rediscovery of French Flute Music

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NOUVELLE VIE:

A REDISCOVERY OF FRENCH FLUTE MUSIC

Michelle Batty Stanley flute

Margaret McDonald piano


On her new album NOUVELLE VIE, flutist Michelle Batty Stanley and pianist Margaret McDonald breathe new life into classic 19th and 20th-century compositions. The duo dream up new interpretations of both familiar French favorites as well as works by lesser-known composers.


The compositions Stanley and McDonald chose for NOUVELLE VIE were written either for the Paris Conservatory Flute Studio as the end of the year projects or as small concert pieces. The album is reminiscent of the opera-like qualities of that specific era of music, a time when the flute became the star instrument.


The duo creates a dynamic interplay with melody lines that stretch through time back to that fruitful era of flute music. Rene De Boisdeffre’s Canzonetta. Op 39. No. 8 is light and airy, while the grandiose Romance. Op 33 by Emile Bernard fills every possible air pocket with sound. Stanley and McDonald create music so full, you might imagine you were listening to an orchestra.


Elegance and grace flow from this album, provoking a sense of waking. You hear the dawn rise in NOUVELLE VIE, dawn presumably once felt by those 19th and 20th-century composers who changed the history of flute music forever.


TRACKLISTING

 

Michelle Batty Stanley flute

Margaret McDonald piano

 

RENÉ DE BOISDEFFRE

01 CANZONETTA OP. 39, NO. 8 3:56

 

PHILIPPE GAUBERT

02 MADRIGAL  4:38

 

ÉMILE BERNARD

03 ROMANCE OP. 33  6:35

 

ÉMILE PESSARD

04  TROISIEME PIECE OP. 28  4:28

 

ÉMILE PESSARD

05  QUATRIEME PIECE OP. 75  4:15

 

PHILIPPE GAUBERT

06 SICILIENNE 3:21

 

ALPHONSE CATHERINE

07  ARABESQUE  2:32

 

ALPHONSE CATHERINE

08  BARCAROLLE  4:04

 

ALPHONSE CATHERINE

09  SÉRÉNADE MÉLANCOLIQUE 4:46

 

VICTOR-ALPHONSE DUVERNOY

DEUX MORCEAUX

10 Lamento Op. 41, No. 1  4:47

11 Intermezzo Op. 41, No. 2 2:47

 

JOSEPH-HENRI ALTES

12 ROMANZA OP. 33, NO. 1 4:19

 

PHILIPPE GAUBERT

1ST SONATA

13 Modéré  5:22

14 Lent  4:44

15 Allegro Moderato  7:44


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