Mika Putterman & Jory Vinikour – Bach at the Mendelssohn’s (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:34 minutes | 944 MB | Genre: Classical
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Known for her beautiful sound and expressive playing, flautist Mika Putterman loves sharing her passion for research and historical knowledge while performing. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Montreal with Claire Guimond, she moved to Europe and received her master’s degree from the Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels with Barthold Kuijken and Marc Hantaï.
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Mika Putterman & Erin Helyard – Kuhlau: Grandes Sonates, Op. 71 & 83 (2018)
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Although it was Kuhlau’s works for flute that won him a place in history, the German-Danish composer was always a pianist first and foremost; and in his lifetime he was very famous for about half-a-dozen operas, an ample repertoire for solo piano, and his rather more Beethovian concertos. We know a good number of pieces for flute (of around 130 numbered works, around 30 are flute-piano duets!) like Sonatas for piano with flute accompaniment, clearly a means of not scaring off amateur flautists from buying his scores… In reality, in these sonatas, the two instruments are given music of equal difficulty. In them, we find everything that once delighted musicians playing in the nook of their parlours: airs, variations, fantasias, rondeaux, all in an air of solid and delicately ornamented virtuosity. The reader will not miss, in these two sonatas published in 1826, the powerful influence of Ludwig van; or indeed the more unique influence of Weber, whose Trio for flute, piano and cello gave a little fillip to Kuhlau. Erin Helyard plays fortepiano; and Mika Putterma plays a flute typical of the German romantic period.
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