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The recorder, so named for an obsolete sense of the verb "record" as meaning "to practice," was for many early music enthusiasts an initial introduction to the whole world of historical performance. But performances that re-create the world of the recorder in detail have been fairly rare. This fine release by Toronto-based recorder player Alison Melville fills a big gap with its generous selection of recorder music that an English player might have known around 1700. Such a player would have been attuned to the powerful new virtuosic currents of music coming from Italy, and it is especially noteworthy that Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5, No. 12 ("La follia"), was published in a recorder arrangement in London in 1702, barely two years after the Roman publication of the violin version. Melville handles the technical challenges elegantly, both here and in the Recorder Sonata Op. 2/2, of William Topham, one of Corelli's earliest English imitators. Yet the recorder was not just about virtuosity, and what makes this recording special is the way virtuoso pieces are mixed in with teaching works and pieces of what would now be called more of a mass-market nature. Handel's overture to Rinaldo was arranged for recorder simply as a way of getting the music affordably into the hands of fans, just as operatic pieces would quickly be made into piano or quartet versions a century later. The piece called Solo No. 2 by Daniel Purcell, Henry Purcell's much-neglected younger brother, is in fact a sonata-like piece for recorder and the nicely flexible continuo group Melville assembles here. The single pieces here are true solo pieces, drawn from instruction books, and they uniformly offer testimony to the fertile imagination of the mostly forgotten group of composers represented here: a group with international origins that nevertheless cohered into something characteristically English. Best of all, the sound from the small Pipistrelle label is as thoroughly pleasant as the music and Melville's playing. An essential purchase for recorder fans that will also make a few new ones.
© TiVo
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Rinaldo, HWV 7 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Flute Solo No. 2 (Version for Recorder & Bass) (Daniel Purcell)
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Daniel Purcell, Composer - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Daniel Purcell, Composer - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Daniel Purcell, Composer - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Daniel Purcell, Composer - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Daniel Purcell, Composer - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Division Flute, Book 1
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Recorder Sonata No. 6, Op. 2 (Luis Mercy)
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Luis Mercy, Composer
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Luis Mercy, Composer
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Genteel Companion (Compiled by S. Humphrey)
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Complete Flute Master (William Pearson)
William Pearson, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Recorder Sonata in D Minor (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Res. Vma. Ms. 700, No. 6) (James Paisible)
James Paisible, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
James Paisible, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
James Paisible, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
James Paisible, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Division Flute, Book 1
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Musical Inventory
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Complete Instructor to the Flute, Book 2
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Recorder Sonata No. 4 in G minor, Op. 3 (Gottfried Finger)
Gottfried Finger, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Gottfried Finger, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Gottfried Finger, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Gottfried Finger, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Recorder Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 (William Topham)
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - William Topham, Composer - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - William Topham, Composer - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - William Topham, Composer - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - William Topham, Composer - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Division Flute, Book 1
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Complete Flute Master
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
The Musical Inventory
Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Recorder Sonata, Op. 5 No. 12 "La Follia" (Arr. for Recorder & Ensemble) (Arcangelo Corelli)
Arcangelo Corelli, Composer - Alison Melville, Artist, MainArtist - Lucas Harris, Artist - Joelle Morton, Artist - Borys Medicky, Artist - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Artist
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
Album review
The recorder, so named for an obsolete sense of the verb "record" as meaning "to practice," was for many early music enthusiasts an initial introduction to the whole world of historical performance. But performances that re-create the world of the recorder in detail have been fairly rare. This fine release by Toronto-based recorder player Alison Melville fills a big gap with its generous selection of recorder music that an English player might have known around 1700. Such a player would have been attuned to the powerful new virtuosic currents of music coming from Italy, and it is especially noteworthy that Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5, No. 12 ("La follia"), was published in a recorder arrangement in London in 1702, barely two years after the Roman publication of the violin version. Melville handles the technical challenges elegantly, both here and in the Recorder Sonata Op. 2/2, of William Topham, one of Corelli's earliest English imitators. Yet the recorder was not just about virtuosity, and what makes this recording special is the way virtuoso pieces are mixed in with teaching works and pieces of what would now be called more of a mass-market nature. Handel's overture to Rinaldo was arranged for recorder simply as a way of getting the music affordably into the hands of fans, just as operatic pieces would quickly be made into piano or quartet versions a century later. The piece called Solo No. 2 by Daniel Purcell, Henry Purcell's much-neglected younger brother, is in fact a sonata-like piece for recorder and the nicely flexible continuo group Melville assembles here. The single pieces here are true solo pieces, drawn from instruction books, and they uniformly offer testimony to the fertile imagination of the mostly forgotten group of composers represented here: a group with international origins that nevertheless cohered into something characteristically English. Best of all, the sound from the small Pipistrelle label is as thoroughly pleasant as the music and Melville's playing. An essential purchase for recorder fans that will also make a few new ones.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:08
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alison Melville Lucas Harris Nadina Mackie Jackson Joelle Morton Borys Medicky
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Pipistrelle Music
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
(C) 2011 Pipistrelle Music (P) 2011 Pipistrelle Music
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