Georgia Browne - CPE Bach / Sonata in A minor for flute solo (Wq.132)

[@lindenwu5034]

A beautiful rendition of this piece. 1000% better than the overly excited and fast versions that are out there. So many nuances are lost when that happens. The tone colors of the baroque flute are things that I don't get to enjoy live every day, and I really appreciate that the performer has managed to perform this piece on such a difficult instrument.

[@fotofavoloso267]

I enjoy the musicianship of any player who brings life to such music......no matter what era flute they are playing........each brings a new and wonderful perspective to the written music.

[@DB-jj5gx]

I subscribe to your "excited renditions" comment. Too many artists nowaday play a contest of speed, instead of playing music. It strips down the life out of the play. But not here, the tempo is quite perfect, with phrases well set up against the breathing. And no romantic rendition, which to me, is the antihesis of the baroque music...

[@awilliams468]

I agree, she brings simplicity to it that it deserves, its not an easy piece to play but her heart is in it.

[@blauespony1013]

The worst thing of the "excited" versions is, that Bach himself wrote about "if only (piano) playing would consist of being fast. (...) A lot of players do all kind of tricks, they impress and numb the mind, but leave the soul starving." I think if he'd have listened to this performance, he'd have found his soul well nourished.

[@ZarkoPerisic]

What an exquisite performance....!! Every single note has its meaning and beautiful colour and shape. This is a master performance of a great and profound work...well done...chappeau!!

[@kateclark8170]

Exquisite! What a fabulous sound and amazing dynamic control, very compelling! Bravissima!

[@jacquesfontaine3384]

Une magnifique sonate où le traverso se trouve bien servi par une acoustique prolongeant sans dommage un timbre raffiné.Merci pour le partage.

[@rondoweiss]

oh how I wish I could play this on a baroque flute.Great authentic sound.

[@robfox5670]

Where there's a way, there's a will!

[@tigranmikayelyan3963]

What an elegance of posture, instrument and of the attempt to interpret this unique piece by the Divine Genius!

[@foveauxbear]

it made me cry, so poignant, elegant and heartbreakingly beautiful

[@WilSon-ov7gv]

La mejor flauta que he escuchado. Un sonido puro y redondo, sin los típicos chillidos de una flauta traversa y sin esos ruidos "sucios" al soplar el instrumento.

[@DB-jj5gx]

Oh my God! such an elegant, well measured and refined rendition! And the baroque flute is not easy to master and play the right tones. There is a huge amount of work just right here. We can see CPE Bach was a flutist himself, contrary to his famous father. Also worth mentioning is she really expressed a baroque way of playing. So many players out there play, most unknowingly, in the romantic / modern style. But not here, this is ornated, but still bringing a more meditative state, deeper, rather than playing on external emotions. Not sure how to express that in english. It made me think of some meditative shakuachi flute at some point.

[@Oaktreealley]

Are you saying that she is letting the music be interesting on its own merit, rather than interpreting too much style? I love boroque music but I’m not studied on theory or anything like that, so I’m interested in whatever you are talking about.

[@AlcvinRyuzenRamos]

That's so wonderful that you compared her playing with to a shakuhachi sound....I'm a shakuhachi player and am working on rendering the first movement to my instrument which I feel is perfectly suited for shakuhachi! Yes, I really appreciated her interpretation of this piece.

[@Rik77]

@@Oaktreealley I don't think so. She is doing a lot of interpretation, some Baroque style and some of it her own musical judgement. But I don't agree ït isn't with feeling. Baroque composers set out to capture emotions especially this composer. And those "affects" are captured here and brought out here by the performer. Its not the same as the over the top romantic interpretations.

[@ofiterpunte]

Best sounding traverso I've heard so far.

[@pamelakeightley3472]

WOW,I'm lost for words...everything was perfect!

[@jorgeaguirre7260]

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing

[@jacquesmorabito8256]

Magnifique interprétation, calme et brillante à la fois

[@DB-jj5gx]

Oui! Mesuré, ornementé mais retenu, vivant, les notes sont remplies, c'est du bel ouvrage.

[@BicycleSociety]

Beautiful and uplifting, Soli Deo Gloria.

[@theoldone3485]

Beautiful playing

[@horo4sa]

Extraordinaire rendition. Loved it! Got so many ideas out of this writing. Really remarkable. Congrats and thank yo so much!!

[@tatay0304]

いいですね。音が柔らかいですね。聞きほれますね。

[@girlwithaflute521]

Beautiful and haunting!

[@unagondolaunremo]

bravissima, molto raffinato!

[@jfreed27]

I am working on this. Lovely and encouraging.rendition.

[@petatap]

I'm going to try this on oboe in g minor.

[@bisagraful]

Beautiful sound, nice tempo. Brava!!

[@twosweethounds]

Such nuanced and colourful playing, bravo!

[@rietschut9105]

it's great music....beautyful sound!

[@ryszardstarzycki1305]

Dla mnie genialne wykonanie ze zrozumieniem co kompozytor chciał napisać a nie próba popipsania się !

[@herlandersousa7]

The best interpretation.

[@editionprimavista4937]

A wonderful performance for such an impressive piece. Kudos!

[@victormourthevaladaresvala3928]

Without words ...

[@Michajeru]

Great to hear this piece played on a baroque flute as it would have been when it was composed by Emanuel Bach.

[@ericdelf]

WONDERFUL.

[@wilflauto5029]

The page turning looked super badass

[@robfox5670]

My very favorite solo-flute work

[@Andrewtafelklavier]

Very special performance, inspiring

[@dottorbaroquefolia]

Complimenti,grazie.

[@Caravaggio44]

Outstanding playing!

[@lessismore4470]

Very intense and beautiful.

[@buzzquille]

Beautiful music making. Thank you!

[@pedronavarro7654]

Brava Georgia!

[@danyelnicholas]

This proves once more that the closer you get to the text, the better the music. That implies great technique but also the willingness to take the text seriously. Hence this is the only version of this piece I have yet encountered that makes sense, especially if you know how quirky CPE Bach's imagination sometimes appears -- but lo and behold! if you follow it, it is very moving music worthy of the man who inspired awe in Haydn and Mozart! I appreciate Ms Brown is a perfectionist and prefers to get all the details right, but the last movement might have gained by slightly more sustained fire?

[@gatozarin]

wow. just wow.

[@herlandersousa7]

The best interpretation!

[@boazbrill]

Brava! Inspiring!

[@burkhardkorn9189]

Hervorragend gespielt. BK

[@PresbyterDJ]

That’s just lovely!

[@suntexi]

I've tried to play this on my modern flute and gave up. Even with all the keys to help, I couldn't do it. I imagine, to play a baroque flute with its one key is akin to playing a tenor recorder as far as fingering goes. I couldn't see whether Georgia used her thumb to split a hole to get the top register like on the recorder but being a transverse, the embouchure gets most of the second register. I really must study the instrument although I could never afford one - just to see how to play it in theory.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

I looked at traverse fute fingering chart and I don't think there is a thumb hole. tilting and breath gets the upper registers

[@Rik77]

Traversos are much cheaper than metal flutes so give it a go. In some ways it's easier to play as there are no keys that get in the way. But your embouchure becomes much more important as your lips shape every note.

[@Jemtheflute]

No thumb hole. It's all in the lips and breath control and fluent command of complex cross-fingerings.

[@MsAraAra]

On a baroque flute, fingering is often simpler and more natural than on a modern one. But... there are problems with intonation, they need to be consciously corrected.

[@lordchameleon2650]

This sounds unreal wow

[@rolandscales9380]

Remarkable. I felt it in the soles of my feet.

[@manuelzumbado3724]

beautiful, Regards from Costa Rica

[@buyukberber]

Absolutely amazing! Thank you!

[@shielasmith9583]

😯❤❤❤❤❤glorious!

[@lessismore4470]

Dry? Dull? Not at all. Quite on the contrary: vivid, balanced, deep.

[@katrienlombaert5437]

Thanks!

[@argon805]

this is amazing!

[@cidasilva8661]

Loved 👏 ⚘ 🍎 👏 ⚘ 🍎 👏

[@ljwljw14]

Amazing!!!

[@boggialinda]

Buonasera, intanto complimenti, come si chiama quel tipo di.flauto.traverso? Grazie infinite.

[@anatolyFedotov]

Bravo

[@AlcvinRyuzenRamos]

I love it! Thanks!

[@guru4017]

Very beautiful so soothing. But one difference I noticed with many western flute players is that they breath in from their mouth that limits the long-range continuity. I am Indian Bansuri flute Player and the very first lesson my teacher taught me is the breathing techniques and the way of breathing while playing the flute. Inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth is a best way while playing the flute. It always gives long range of playing without discontinuity, increase the lung capacity and doesn't make that much sound when you inhale that you can clearly notice here.

[@musee5866]

4:42 2 9:07 3

[@PP-hh5rh]

Love it!!!

[@高橋正博-s2u]

ameblo.jp/galwayera/entry-12248257854.html I know that this C P E Bach's flute solo in A minor is very difficult for modern flute. But she is perfectly playing it by primitive flute which is called traverso . This would be extremely astonishing thing. I can recognize a little bit nice her improvisation in it. Her flute traverso performance is so accurate, beautiful that I am not able to criticize at all. From Tokyo

[@GlenShannon]

The Traverso is actually highly designed, rather than primitive. It comes from a time just before it became popular to add keys to get the same quality of every note (and to facilitate some new tricky note combinations as musical tastes changed after JS Bach). What we now consider the weaknesses of the cross-fingered notes (played by skipping some holes and covering others) were celebrated for their tone color. Also the blow hole is smaller than the modern flute and therefore the mouth shape to get good sound is smaller. This is a difficult instrument to master (at least for me), every note has something special about it that needs to be managed. Georgia's playing is exquisite!

[@高橋正博-s2u]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Because my mother language is not English, I can't guarantee whether I was be able to understand sufficiently what you had meant. Probably, the word "primitive" wasn't appropriate for baroque flutes. I was informed that flutes traverso and recorders are more sophisticated than I thought. Incidentally I have watched your blog. You enjoy the baroque music . Don't you? I also have my blog. If you "click ", you'll reach it. Finally, I am a pretty enthusiastic fan of Michala Petri.

[@ericdelf]

Basic, Elemental, yet sophisticated, and what a wonderful sound.

[@Oaktreealley]

why is it harder for modern flutes to play? Im aware of the differences in how they are structured, but what did you mean? I find this fascinating. (I love the baroque flute, by the way. =)

[@Muzikman127]

I want hear her play sweet Georgia Brown on it 😁

[@陽天-g8g]

美しい。CPEバッハはフラウトトラヴェルソでないとあかんな。

[@parmavioIets]

9:13

[@TONvlogs314]

My band teacher is using this for an audition

[@benoitdupe5714]

does somebody know from which brand is the flute ?

[@ensemblelemasque2124]

Copy from Carlo Palanca, Italy 1750

[@georgiabrowne8735]

Georgia plays a copy of an August Grenser flute made by Eugene Crijnen in 1996.

[@musichong]

What kind of flute it is?

[@michelbt]

It is a baroque flute (sorry, don't know the maker)

[@loveTTforever]

It's called a traverso. There are several different brands and price ranges for them. The description to the video says "Georgia plays a copy of an August Grenser flute made by Eugene Crijnen in 1996."

[@foveauxbear]

Clear that Carl Philip learned a LOT from his father!

[@juliotancredi7468]

What is the instrument? It seems very different from regular flute.

[@davidgonzalez368]

It's a baroque traverso flute. It's a copy of an instrument from around the time the piece was written

[@grimjim100]

Tuning great phrasing great. CPE Bach is in my view every bit as good as his dad!, maybe better! Pappa Bach did use a lot of CPEs music and was published as being by Pappa!

[@pauljmeyer1]

This performance would have pleased Friederich der Grosse.

[@naiman4535]

It's amazing how much sonority and sound power a simple Baroque flute can produce! But her Baroque flute is made out of exotic Grenadilla wood, a wood from South America that was generally unavailable to Europeans in the Baroque era; in the Baroque era, the Baroque Flute would have been made out of Boxwood.

[@ВикторМалюгин-г1н]

Anderson Timothy Clark Mary Davis Jose

[@Andrewtafelklavier]

Looks like she’s playing from the SPES facsimile

[@Amadea27]

Definitely... My whole bookshelf is full with those facsimiles

[@ProfessorFiore]

Narrow dynamic range. Covering embouchure too much and so you get a nasal sound and general flatness. Too safe and sterile an interpretation, especially for this particular composer, who was part jokester and an innovative rule breaker.

[@Mrhomeless78]

Frederik the Great playlist, anyone?

[@frauncisshakespeare438]

Au contraire mes amis .. I have to completely disagree with the many glowing comments on this performance : I've never heard a duller, more dry, lifeless, empty and soul-less rendition of this piece:in contrast, when I first heard this piece (circa 1977), I was greatly moved by its haunting beauty: but this is strikingly dull.

[@anaiscarre6150]

Frauncis Shakespeare Bonjour, avez vous une seconde version de cette pièce sur traverso ?

[@grimjim100]

Bollocks!

[@xianfengyan6636]

Exactly! The sounds is dry and empty, noisy! It’s not like real brq flute sounds! Because too much pressure on the lips!

[@jorgemartin5093]

Too watery for my taste.

[@drzaeus5624]

On what planet is this bland, dry nonsense a good performance?

[@herlandersousa7]

The best interpretation.

[@angelbeats2111]

9:40