The tone secrets of the top flutists//reviewing their tone

[@flutechannel]

A fairly unknown flutist and taken away from us way to soon is Cécile Daroux maybe the best sounding flute player ever.

[@yishihara55527]

First of all, it's tragic that someone died so young. RIP Cecile. However, as a self-elected KZbin flute "expert," it would be better for you to be clear with your words and say something like "I think that she was perhaps the best sounding flute player ever." Better yet, why not refrain from such statements in the first place? It's disrespectful, like a high school girl who says "My boyfriend is the BEST!" Statements like that don't deal with or care about the truth. They are only designed to diminish others, regardless of their accomplishments.

[@gitasong]

@@yishihara55527 First of all, English is not Amélie's first language, so a little tolerance is in order from the grammar police. 🙄 Second of all, where are your credentials to say that she's not an expert? She has two flute courses out; where are yours? Thirdly, I didn't read her comment as making some sort of universal pronouncement; I read it as this is somebody she greatly admires and who is a personal hero of hers. While her comment is generous, admiring, and full of praise, yours comes across as mean-spirited and snippy. I can guarantee that, if I had a flute question or wanted to take lessons, I'd go to her and not you. 🙄

[@gitasong]

Furthermore, @@yishihara55527 , the video expressly invites people to post their favorite flute players. She's said nothing to deprecate other players, merely that she loves this one. I'm pretty sure you're the one diminishing others, here. 🙄

[@Baraodojaguary]

How about Altamiro Carrilho the best flutist of Brazil's traditional choro music

[@yishihara55527]

@@gitasong People like you and her are two reasons why classical music is in big trouble. As they say, you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. I know that it's a husband's natural instinct to protect their wife, even when the the criticisms are founded. Believe me, others have done the same. LOL

[@breakfastplan4518]

What I love about Galways vibrato is that most flute players dont like it. Yet, when I play his music for Violinists, its the FIRST thing they find beautiful about his playing.

[@percyvolnar8010]

Exactly!

[@thatkoreanguy369]

They Jelly

[@ultimawerewolfbluephoenix9670]

Maybe it's because it's similar to our dream vibrato

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@ultimawerewolfbluephoenix9670 It is, Actually. I studied with Galway and he patterned his vibrato after violins and he perfected it with help from the great Pavarotti !

[@SophieLeung-du9we]

I love his vibrato

[@LaMerleNoir216]

When I first saw a video of Pahud I was like there is no way this man is actually blowing into that instrument. it was crazy. just shows how amazingly he plays.

[@charlotteshepherd4908]

Yes. Emanuel Pahud is a great flautist.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I know right??!! I thought the same thing! I wonder if he was dubbing over the video with a recording but it would be impossible for any musician to stand there holding their flute and not actually play! It’s amazing

[@justanotherfluteguy]

@@TheFlutePractice sebastian Jacot also has a really relaxed embouchure

[@normanthibodeau8466]

@@TheFlutePractice The thing is, he looks just the same when I've seen him play live! He's extraordinary.

[@johnnypooncy]

@@TheFlutePractice I think this video of Pahud is defintely dubbed or lip-synced, his embouchure usually looks a tad more controlled, not as relaxed as in this video.

[@jodimerusi3250]

When I was about 14 (now 66) my parents took me to see Rampal in concert at Tanglewood (Summer "home" of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.) He played one of the Mozart Concertos and music from his newest album which featured all Ragtime music (mostly Scott Joplin.) I still have his autograph!! I could have listened to him all day!

[@TheFlutePractice]

😭😭😭😭 this makes me so happy and jealous at the same time! That must have been absolutely incredible!!! Wowow

[@yishihara55527]

@@TheFlutePractice Jealous? How about eating at a great French restaurant with Rampal, Nicolet, Larrieu, Adorjan, etc. and then walking around a park with them drunk and then getting kicked out by the cops? Or how about having a private lesson with a famous flutist but then Pahud suddenly enters and listens to you before you go and hang out? Many things didn't seem like a big deal at the time because I was simply focused on playing and could care less about the "perks."

[@jodimerusi3250]

@@yishihara55527 Oh Wow! Nothing better! You may not have appreciated them at the time but what fabulous memories!

[@suzanneparker1799]

I saw Rampal at a flute Master Class at the University of Michigan and saw his gold flute up close. My teacher Glennis Stout made sure we met him. I was probably 16.

[@renatoaxelrud6302]

Hi ! I'm Renato Axelrud and I play principal flute at The Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira,Rio de Janeiro Brasil. I've been doing this wonderful "job"for more than 40 years.I'm 75 years old and it seems to me that I had started yesterday instead of may 1981. I would like to say to you that you are approaching a very good issue,we flutists get very well impressed by the beautiful sounds of the good flutists we listen and are always trying to reproduce their tones.I did this to,many times but got to my own sound invariably. Each one of us has he's own anatomyc shape of leaps,mouth cave,face muscles etc . So,I think that the most important thing to be followed is to find the best sound you can get and invest your whole life on it. Make the other flutists to envy your embochure.

[@suzanneparker1799]

Excellent advice. At the age of 67 I’m taking lessons again and my teacher has been really analyzing my breathing, flexibility of embouchure, openness of my mouth, etc. I have made terrific improvements. I am a serious amateur with some pretty good skills although I was a Speech/ language pathologist in my “real”career. It’s amazing how my knowledge or oral motor movement and anatomy helps me and with my flute students.

[@wallimjamm]

Great advice, thank you

[@albertnemiroff1502]

I have had the great pleasure of seeing Maestri Galway and Rampal both perform and give extended master classes, i.e. one each. The experiences were wonderful. Another time Galway invited Julius Baker to join him during a concert . The performance too was outstanding. When I heard Maxence Larrieu in the 1980s I experienced a quiet intense excitement evidenced by the hairs on my arms were raised. That was repeated only once more for the diminuendo by Michelle Arignon on clarinet to a ppppp that could be heard and felt at the back of a moderate sized auditorium. Thank you very much for this video and the analyses you present.

[@CrystalWitch27]

RAY THOMAS from The Moody Blues, may he rest in peace, is the reason I became a flute player in my early childhood and played for 7 years. Listen to his flute solos in the songs "Nights in White Satin" and "Legend of a Mind"! Absolutely mind-blowing! ❤

[@henrypalmeter1195]

The flute world needs to be reminded about Elaine Shafer, who died in 1973. She had a beautiful sound that I have never heard matched. William Kincaid gave her his platinum flute for good reason.

[@luvmyrecords]

Good call! I first learned about her when the New York flute club paid tribute to her. Not too long after that, I found an album of hers, and it blew me away.

[@henrypalmeter1195]

@@luvmyrecords I especially love her album of the Bach flute sonatas. I was lucky to have the opportunity to hear her perform live....from memory.

[@dasteufelhund]

Not sure it was given to her, but it was on loan to her.

[@TUH-g1p]

What a wonderful, wonderful video! So educational, I love your comments. And you are also so funny. A few sidenotes: Jasmine Choi's dress is so unbelievably beautiful, I would like to wear it but I dont have her size, I want to kiss Pahud's lips but he is already kissing his flute and your dog is adorable.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I agree with all of these points. She is so stunning! And Pahud 😂😂😂😂 he has a few kissed coming his way!

[@grace-yp3sv]

some recommendatioms for part 2: bouriakov, as ive seen others say, but also mimi stillman, sounds so clear and shimmery sounding! i recommend looking at her somewhat recent recording of the poulenc sonata, the second movement is gorgeous. and stefan ragnar hoskuldsson, who's the principal of the cso! his tone is SO warm, i saw him playing brahms 4 in concert in december and it blew me away! edit: also, this is just a fun video - galway, hoskuldsson, bouriakov, and langevin all together in a quartet. i think it is a really interesting compare and contrast of all their styles! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoC4k2yZd8mef68

[@elysianfibres1642]

I think another thing they all have in common is that their instruments make very little difference to their sound. If you listen to Galway, for example, he has that same unique sound on one of his gold flutes as on a student model. I think what we can learn from that is that we shouldn't pay too much attention to flute retailers and rather focus our attention and time on tone development with exercises and a good teacher.

[@elysianfibres1642]

@Leslie What I am trying to say is that the cost of the flute is not the be all and end all; the great flautists in this video are able to make a beautiful sound even on inexpensive instruments. As we scroll though online flute retailers' websites, we'll often see dubious claims about what such-and-such a feature can do for sound, when in reality, it's the player that makes all the difference. In other words, spending thousands on a flute won't get you a fantastic sound - but spending the time on tone development and with a good teacher will get you much closer.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I think Galway famously did a test on flutes, playing an expensive vs cheap and got such a great sound on both. I do think the instruments make a difference but with these top players they know how to compensate to get the same basic sound regardless of the instrument!

[@yishihara55527]

@@TheFlutePractice That's fine if they are just testing flutes. But if they adjust their technique to compensate for a flute's shortcomings, their technique will be altered over time and they will end up with quite a few playing issues. For example, if they had to compensate and use more force on a few keys, over time that becomes a habit and they will need to change again over time when playing on a properly functioning instrument. In other words, bad quality instruments (or even good quality instruments in need of repair) should not be played on.

[@jftremblay257]

As Rober Aitken used to say to his students: if you're a musician you can make music out of anything!

[@yishihara55527]

@@jftremblay257 Yes you can. You can even carve out a carrot and turn it into a flute. But good luck trying to play Chant de Linos on it. There have to at least be some minimum requirements. P.S. I heard through the grapevine that Aitken's flute normally smelled like beer. Is that true?

[@marinansel4362]

I love this video! I am a returning older flute player and was told by a teacher that my embouchure was all wrong. Now, after seeing all these wonderful flutists, makes me think mine might be okay. I need to watch more of these. Have you featured Ian Anderson? 😊

[@corneliaippers603]

Emily Beynon - you probably can do more than just part 2. Would be interesting to get more analysis what the flutists are actually doing very differently.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Oh I LOVE her playing! What a wonderful teacher and performer!

[@mquietsch6736]

What struck me was the way Rampal was standing. He kept his legs closely together, and his feet don't have the classical 45 degree angle we are always told to have. It's also interesting to see that practically all of the great masters of the flute tilt their head instead of lifting their flute up. There must be a reason they all do that. I've decided to experiment a bit...

[@TheFlutePractice]

I think as long as it doesn’t cause strain in the neck it isn’t a problem. I love Leslie’s point about the arms being more relaxed. I think so often the ‘marching band’ position is what we have in mind for the flute and that is way worse!

[@mquietsch6736]

@@TheFlutePractice It's certainly less comfortable. My right arm tends to start complaining after a long session. So far I haven't managed to keep my head tilted though. Maybe I should tilt my music stand to remind myself 🙃

[@ferminsalaberri]

I think its the same reason why old school songers tilted their heads towards the chest, it opens more space in the throat so better sound better intonation, great projection, relaxed jaws etc.

[@picardy1907]

I am no flute player, I know very little on the subject (I have played trumpet for 50 years), but when Pahud came on screen I thought, 'he is so relaxed', then you confirmed with your comments. Bravo to him, and of course, to all your flautists of choice - who in the world could possibly not have heard of James Galway. He is such a star and so flexible in his playing. I have recently bought a concert flute on which I am, very slowly, teaching myself to play (which is why I am here), but it seems such an impossible instrument - how on earth do these players do what they do!!! Incredible and beautiful. Thank you so much for this very thought provoking video, and for your channel.

[@bilbobaggins5704]

I think that something should be mentioned here that many players value the flute materials design or features but that much should be said that these players did a lot of work with tone development to reach the point where their tone is their true art. Other features might include their knowledge of presenting the musical line or musicality. How they approach vibrato and tuning are also very important and the comments that I see from younger players place much more emphasis upon the flute than on the development of the flutist than used to be the case.

[@ne0romantic]

I mean, Bouriakov, but also Alena Walentin Lugovkina who perhaps isn't as famous. I saw them along with two others students of WIBB in concert in 2017 and I hear similar things in her tone to what like in Bouriakov's tone, but also in the high register she also does some kind of "sweet" tone that I don't hear so much in his playing, at least not in that concert.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I AMOST included Bouriakov in this video! Such a great player. Will check out Lugovkina too! Don’t know her playing so that will be a fun discovery 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@lincolnrogers4353]

My heart dropped when I saw Emmanuel Pahud. 😍😍😍

[@carjamash]

Part 2 please! With Clara Andrada de la Calle. Best flautist ever ❤️ Also some Sebastian Jacot and Chiara Tonelli please! Wooden flutes ftw

[@TheFlutePractice]

I’m pretty obsessed with Sebastian Jacot’s tone! And for you…it’s always been Clara 😂🤪

[@carjamash]

@@TheFlutePractice of course! Clara is the best after all! 😝 Miss you Tats! Keep thriving!

[@suzannenoel3610]

I'm a big fan of Clara Andrada de la Calle's colleague in hr-Sinfonieorchester: Sebastian Wittiber. (Clara is great, too, of course.)

[@randyking9489]

​@@TheFlutePractice This was great. Is there a part 2? Thanks

[@aaron.anchored.in.christ]

Jasmine is definitely my fav! Please do Julius Baker, Gary Schocker, Marina Piccinini, and Jeffrey Khaner next! 😁💗💗

[@gitasong]

Another vote for Gary Schocker!! Yesss!!

[@ManfredKlausBerg]

In einem Konzert-Programmheft schrieb eine Musik-Kritikerin 1971: Die außerordentliche Verehrung, die sich NICOLET international erworben hat, gilt seiner unfehlbaren Stilsicherheit, mit der er sowohl alte als auch neueste Musik interpretiert, ebenso wie der Fülle und Klangschönheit seines Tons.❤

[@aleydelopehandia3791]

I secretly was seeing this video, but now I have to tell u, this kind of videos are amazing. Thank you

[@TheBabyInYellow-xo6fp]

Jasmine Choi is literally the flute goddess

[@rebeccamcclary]

Great job! Yes to a Part 2 with Carol Wincenc.

[@pamirwin1999]

Loved these examples of wonderful flute players, a great combination of technique and expression.

[@ScottMaurer-g2b]

Rampal had the finest sound in the upper octaves. I enjoy the rawness he had to his playing as well, as you say he played passionately with a certain amount of abandon. It adds an additional dynamic to the music beyond just volume and attack. A thing I always enjoyed is that he has a very tight embouchure that is often seen as "wrong" these days. I never found Galway's tone to be particularly distinguished, very good obviously but not a unique voice on the instrument. I always cite Jasmine Choi as someone who has refined her skill with the instrument exquisitely and has a distinct and beautiful unique voice.

[@SavvySaxy]

Slight rant, sorry but I don’t know any flute players who actually care to listen to me talk about this lol. I’m primarily a saxophone player and I only just picked up flute about 6 or 7 months ago so I’m rather new. I was very excited and proud of myself after watching this because I’ve heard of all of these flute players before! And, not just that, but I could tell the differences between their sounds and describe them. That is a skill I didn’t have for saxophone for years, only recently would I be able to detect a Sonny Rollins recording vs a Sonny Stitt recording (very famous saxophone players). Plus I have heard all of these recordings before which was cool too lol. I feel like listening (and watching) are very important aspects of getting a great tone on flute and so it was nice to know that I’m “in the loop” so to speak

[@Joycomplete627]

This was awesome! Definitely would love to see a part 2 to learn more artists and playing styles!

[@jftremblay257]

Très instructif et inspirant merci! Vous êtes tombés pile sur mes préférés!

[@timwatson9483]

I agree with Cornelia Ippers - DEFINITELY Emily Beynon! Also Adam Walker. (Great video - thanks, Tatiana)

[@TheFlutePractice]

Yes and yes. I’m obsessed with Adam Walkers sound and musical phrasing. What a gem of a player. Definitely will be reviewed!

[@emilybergevin651]

I tend to roll in quite a bit... I feel like I get a lot more color that way. For a while, I was rolling out as much as possible to help me remember to direct the air forward. It helped. But I do roll in quite a bit now. Rampal is the one who inspired me to play flute; as soon as I heard him play the Bolling Suite I was mesmerized.

[@BaileyPhillipsComposer]

Love this kind of video! Definitely do more. I enjoy listening to some of their masterclssses on KZbin to see their techniques. Definitely made some good observations that I didn't notice.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Yay! I’m so glad. I had so much fun doing this! So great to just take the time to listen and analyze 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@thoregulden4545]

The playing of Sebastian Jacot (especially in his Reinecke concerto) also is incredible!

[@TheFlutePractice]

Ooooo. I love Sebastian Jacot!

[@nori28jp]

@@TheFlutePractice Why nobody talk about his teacher, Jacques Zoon?

[@thoregulden4545]

@@nori28jp Well, Jaques Zoon is great, too but in my opinion Jacot is just superior to him for some reason.

[@OrchestralAuditionExcerpts]

That’s a really cute dog and a great video. Would love to see a video like this of more flutists. Maybe playing the same passage also? I agree, they are all beautiful

[@betelgeuse6057]

Pahud is my favorite ... Rampal and Galway (too much vibrato) are wonderful aswell ... thank you so much for your great videos Tatjana ... learned so much from you ... greetings from good old Europe - AUSTRIA ...😊❤

[@RainerSchweitzer]

Don´t forget Aurèle Nicolet. He had the most incredible sound on the flute I have ever heard. I have never heard anything like that before and after (in concert) including Rampal, Galway and many others. It goes back to the school of André Jaunet. Other Flutists coming from that school sounded similar. It is also one of the rare cases where the instrument itself seemed to make a big audible difference. He sounded like that when playing his Johannes Hammig but not quite so when playing other flutees. I haven´t heard Moise though. But from the few old recordings that exist he must have been exceptional. As to the younger players I am pretty impressed by Denis Bouriakov although he has a weard embouchure. But I haven´t heard him in concert yet. From a pure listener´s perspective I often prefer the sound of silver flutes. I have an old record of Rampal playing on a silver flute and one of Galway (there seems to be only one of either player) which I lover very much for their sound.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I love Nicolet’s playing! So beautiful!

[@johannevanderghote7577]

❤❤❤ I had the pleasure to see and hear Rampal, Galway and also Aurèle Nicolet in Brussels (in the late '70 - '80). Aurèle Nicolet was a very interesting flautist too. ❤🎶😊

[@scootermacarthy5990]

Some factors that alter flute players' sound is interesting. How much the embouchure hole is covered, resonance inside the mouth and changes to that physically, and the angle of the airstream, plus the speed of the air is crucial. JG says he covers about 1/2 the hole with his bottom lip, and he turns in the HJ to get that resonance but has to speed up the air flow to prevent from getting flat pitch. All these players have their own "sound" and will sound great even on a cheap flute, but having a well made and dense metal flute will just make playing easier. I know, as I have experimented with this for years. After a Rampal masterclass I asked him to play one of my flutes (silver) and he sounded just like he always did. I played his 1958 Haynes flute once then called the Haynes Co. to make a HJ just like his in silver and discovered his embouchure hole was much larger than my Haynes and didn't like it at all. Had a terrible time playing softly as there was very little resistance. It was perfect for him as his lips are rather large. Thanks for sharing on your channel.

[@charlotteshepherd4908]

Another inspiring video for us. Thankyou Tatiana.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Pleasure!

[@QuasarZX12]

Karl-Heinz Schütz, playing Mendelssohn flute concerto op. 64, a great virtuoso player. Also Zofia Neugebauer playing Introduction and Variations, F. Schubert with strings, not piano.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Ooo yes! Some nice central euro names!

[@Lewizll]

Thank you for the great compilation and commentary 🙏

[@osoialncuiq]

I've watched most of those videos several times before. But with your explanations, I suddenly paid attention to some amazing new things about technique. Thanks!

[@caduceusmedia8481]

Hariprasad Chaurasia is my model. He also blows well off center. And they sit erect. flute (bansuri) is angled down. You're a great teacher!

[@khawk25361]

This was wonderful thank you. I loved all of these amazing players. Some of my favorite players include Julius Baker who possessed an amazing sound with beautiful color. I very much enjoy Sebastian Jacot who has one of the most relaxed and effortless embouchures I have ever seen. Also, Hubert Laws has a very rich and beautiful sound and an interesting embouchure. In any case, thank you for presenting this video.

[@TheFlutePractice]

A guy after my own heart…love both those players a LOT!

[@owennovenski4794]

We all have our favourites of course. I have too many to list. But I studied under Scott Goff, principle of the Seattle Symphony and he under Julius Baker. Scott was adamant that I reflect Bakers beautiful ability in the low register and worked me relentlessly until I he could hear Baker coming through. I’m forever grateful for being forced through those coaching sessions. So please include examples of Julius Bakers tremendous contribution to us all.

[@kenwebster5053]

The flute players tone comes from within. This is their art, mechanics of technique aside, essentially you want to use your airway as a secondary sympathetic harmonic chamber. Holding your airway open & vocal chords as if about to sing each note. Your art must come from within the core of your being. Breathe each note form within you soul. Perhaps actual vocal training might help help. I play Andean flutes, quena & zampona, I am not professional but it is a passion of mine & that is what I try to do. I am getting older now & it's taking more work to keep playing. So, I fear my playing is now in decline & may well disappear before I do.

[@dgkingmusic]

Jean Ferrandis is my absolute favorite! Would love for you to do a video on him! I’d love to collaborate with you on it myself haha!

[@loussis8584]

Very interesting video for the flute amateur that I am 👍👍 I also had a good laugh with some of your comments (especially the one about the camera angles choices 😂) Keep on the good work 👍👍👍

[@kerrib1474]

Jasmine and pahud are amazing ….Yes do another one of these …this is great

[@yishihara55527]

Jasmine.........................................and Pahud LOLOLOL

[@franziskalang1684]

Yes please, more flute tone reviews. I like Bouriakov.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Yay! Thanks. I think Bouriakov is up next. He nearly made it into this one!

[@jsr06]

Bouriakov is brilliant and such a generous teacher.

[@88pynogrl]

I studied piano with Jeannie Baxtresser’s mom Margaret Baxtresser at Kent State University. She was very proud of her daughter’s career.♥️

[@janinehaynes6707]

Claudio Barile Victor Somma Anette Maiburg Are some of my favourite players. I really enjoyed your video! 😃

[@Nymeria0]

Thank you so much for making this video. You've showcase the videos that I've saved into playlist and rewatched over and over.

[@glennover6046]

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I got chills listening to the first Rampal piece!

[@rodolfovazquez8144]

I have been so lucky to learn and be there live with Jimmy Galway. There is no other flutist that could sing and express they way he could in the late 80’s and early 90’s the way he did. He has always been who I was striving to be as a flute player. Every tone, every flute player is different, everybody has a different body and you get a different tone. The important thing is to express what the composer meant in the piece of music.

[@sherpa_hesperides]

I couldn't find so much material from him, but Chris Wood - Traffic in Rainmaker is worth taking a look! 🎶✨🎧

[@ivansarkany314]

Many thanks for this comparative video. My favorite flutist is Alain Marion. Listen to his take of La Traviata. Its fenomenal, it beats my canary.

[@agustinamei6691]

Please check out Eckart Haupt, Mario Carbotta, and the wonderful Tim Macri (his interpretation of Bach Toccata and fugue is excellent).

[@michelcrowfeather3789]

Really enjoyed this video. Another flutist which might be of interest...Paul Horn.

[@michelcrowfeather3789]

I still have my original LP from 1971, he was my inspiration for flute,after I returned from India in 70’,met him in 72’💖🎼

[@Titanandenceladus]

Although a bit old school, I always liked Doriot Anthony Dwyer, former principal flute of Boston Symphony

[@TheFlutePractice]

Lovely! Old school is great. ❤️🎶👏🏼

[@yishihara55527]

They used to call her "Tin Ear" because of her major intonation issues.

[@kayvonderembse3404]

What about Paula Robison and Mimi Stillman? I enjoy listening to these amazing women.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I agree! They were on the list for a video and will need to be in a future vid. I actually found a video with Mimi Stillman and Julius Baker when she was very young! So cool 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@dcallan812]

When you add the tragic accident Sir James when through its just amazing he can play the flute again. Never mind playing it with the passion, tone and beauty he plays will into old age. Just amazing.

[@terribright1773]

What accident? He is so talented. Glad he can still play. He is my favorite.

[@dcallan812]

@@terribright1773 in1977 he was run over by a speeding motorcycle in Lucerne, breaking his left arm and both legs and required a four-month hospital stay.

[@terribright1773]

@@dcallan812 WOW I had no idea. I didn't even know about him until the early 1980s.

[@dcallan812]

@@terribright1773 He is one amazing guy, and such an accomlished musician bringing flute playing to the UK music charts with annie's song as well as orchestral. 👏👏

[@courtneyconkling]

I'd love to hear your take on Carol Wincenc and James Pellerite!

[@ronenmeyuhas5381]

Marcel Moyse, William Bennett, Thomas Nyfenger, Carol Wincenc

[@bonaventuraoliviero]

I want to congratulate you for the immense respect you showed and shared with us for your personal opinion about the flutists you selected in this video. This shows how different is our taste about what we perceive as good tone. I would like to suggest an analysis of Danis Bouriakov lip position. In my personal opinion, he is not from this dimension, for what he is capable of...

[@TheFlutePractice]

I agree! It makes no sense how he can play like that! I actually did do a part two and looked at his playing 😁

[@mikhailmartsinkevich9436]

Thanks for sharing this video of Galway, Rampal, Baxtresser, Pahud they are just masters and I really adore Sharon Bezaly.

[@gastonpiget1034]

Delightful video! Thank you! I think there may be a few scratchy old takes of Moyse out there. Maybe you can include him in a second part. After all, he did write De la Sonorité. Or how about Georges Barrère who had a great influence in the USA.

[@geniahollander6282]

This was excellent. Would love to be part of your workshops. Yes, part 2 would be great.

[@TheCoffree]

Aurele Nicolet is one of those I've always looked up to (or should I say... listened up to ;) ), and I believe Pahud has been one of his pupils at one point. I find both, in different ways, have the sweet and clean tone that I like best.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Ooooo yes! I love Nicolet. I absolutely adore his Reinecke Concerto! Just gorgeous.

[@TheCoffree]

@@TheFlutePractice yes!! he is also one of my models for Bach. For Mozart instead I turn to Pahud ;)

[@yishihara55527]

Pahud was already sounding like Pahud way before he met Nicolet LOL.

[@TheCoffree]

@@yishihara55527 yes, I bet!

[@TheFlutePractice]

I secretly really hope people vote for Nicolet in the next video!

[@madelinegrudens]

I'm definitely not qualified to make any comments about technique - I'm so new - but it's amazing to hear the views of other flutists and I definitely have my favorites! This was really interesting!!

[@dominikaorsagova7741]

Please do that part 2! I really want to know your opinion about Denis Bouriakov I absolutely adore him 🥺🥰🎵🙏

[@TheFlutePractice]

Yes! So many requests for Bouriakov so part 2 with him will probably happen!

[@rebeccaaustin1339]

Thanks for the analysis on these great flutists. I know next to nothing and really appreciate your expertise. Part 2, please.

[@PhilipBuckmaster]

Super interesting and helpful video! Maxence Larrieu, and a couple of less well know flautists I've heard recently - Kenneth Smith (Rachmaninov Vocalise) and Hye Sung Choe (Godard 3 Morceaux) Both so musical.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Oooo. Yes. Would love to analyze Larrieu! Will check the others out too. I think I have heard a bit of Choe’s playing on KZbin but I must explore!

[@adeleidabingham4868]

I discovered Pahud a couple of weeks ago trying to find a good clip of the Brahms 4 solo…. And I so completely love his sound!!!! He’s my second favourite now, Joni being my first :). Love your videos, always.

[@royvanoost3445]

I wonder what you would think of Ian Anderson and love to hear your comment about his playing. He is all over youtube in very different styles of playing. He introduced the flute in rock music in the band Jethro Tull, but he also made a very nice clssical album “Divinities” under his own name.

[@TheFlutePractice]

This would be very very very cool to do! I would love to spend some time really analysing his playing.

[@Osnosis]

His rock playing owes a huge debt to Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

[@elmercole8378]

Both Galway and myself when students used to scour a shop in Wardour St., London, for 78's of Marcel Moyse. Julius Baker in an early LP of the Bach sonatas also opened my mind to the detimbre quality. Before the world switched almost universally to the French style there was the straighter style of Arthur Gleghorn and many others when, in English orchestras at least, it was almost a crime to play on anything other than a wood flute. I used to think John Amadio played wood until I learned otherwise. These incredible players were just the start of a lifetime of recordings.

[@chas5131]

Thank you. Excellent video. Your voice is not annoying.

[@Ron239]

The secret is throat tones. It's all about throat tones, which will not only create that lovely sound you seek, but also improve your articulation and technique. The secret is in constricting the throat just so. If you do this, your tone will improve exponentially even on the least expensive of flutes.

[@richmontagna6200]

This 180 degrees from anything I have been taught as I have always been taught to open the throat completely and control from the diaphragm.

[@felipesalomon6350]

For me, Galway has and masters a perfect technique and interpretation...not from now but from always...for the best sound, fingering and others...

[@danyelnicholas]

I think what you have just reviewed here is the final state of the attempts to turn Descoteaux' lovely, mellow, understated, elegant and endearingly soft instrument into something more 'masculine'. Quantz, Tromlitz, Nicholson, Boehm (with the final replacement of the traversière with a cylindrical metal pipe riddled with gigantic holes) have paved that way. When I heard Rampal after many years for the first time here I could not believe how tinny and wobbly the sound was, only to learn, that in comparison to the later virtuosi he was actually quite restrained. Why has the flute to be forced to sound like a trumpet? Why has everything to be so overstated? The irony being, that the Boehm flute is in fact capable of the most subtle tone production, articulation and phrasing of all modern wind instruments, yet it seems flutist are exclusively judged by those strangely out of date criteria of heroic sentimentality or sheer brutality.

[@TheFlutePractice]

I actually agree with you on many of these points. While personally, I enjoy some of the virtuoso more overstated playing, as you put it, I feel it should not be the only definition of what is beautiful in flute playing. Playing with gentle colour, nuance, elegance should be considered equally artful and beautiful. I do think that our general tastes are shifting toward that again and I think there is more space than ever for that type of solo playing. However, I think a big reason for the louder more forceful playing is the necessity and in many ways the gold standard is because of its place in orchestral playing. Up against the full orchestra, you need to be able to belt it out, especially as a soloist playing something like Chaminade or Reinecke! It’s quite something. If the whole orchestra could allow us to play with that nuance too…that would change everything! Lovely observation 👏🏼

[@Vivajeste]

I've also noticed that Jasmine Choi's embouchure, she has her lower jaw protruded out. Does it make her high notes come out more easily? or is it helpful in more other ways? // Also, what goes on inside our mouths in terms of air flow? (Joanna from Just Another Flutist talks of this, but I'd like to learn more!!)

[@chrisscheri9566]

YES! Jean Pierre Rampal. Best flute player of all time.

[@bipbip6626]

Yes! Part 2 , please!

[@TheFlutePractice]

Yes! I’m so glad because this video was way more fun than I would like to admit!

[@luvmyrecords]

This video is WONDERFUL! Perhaps, for a second part (you could go on to a part 3 and beyond, I'm sure) Trudy Kane, former co-principal at the Metropolitan Opera, who can play the softest of pianissimos, and still fill an opera house.

[@TheFlutePractice]

Thank you! Added to the list 😁

[@Olivia_Evil]

I haven't throat noise problems. I think it could be generated by a bad neck posture, when a person keep looking down or perhaps subconsciously pronouncing the syllables with the articulation. Wow I love hear Sir Galway playing high notes...

[@jeremiahwillson9855]

Loved this video! I'd love to see part II, part III, part IV, part V....you get the idea :D A couple flutists that REALLY inspire me are Tadeu Coelho and Clara Andrada de la Calle!

[@AndieArbeit]

It is interesting how Sir Galway's sound tend to sound more clear brilliant and focused in the video of him younger, i wounder how the quality or types of microphones and recording media could affect our perception of his sound

[@sitarnut]

Loved your analysis.. it's helped me so much. My favorite flute piece is the Debussy "Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp" from the the Deutsche Grammophon LP with Doriot Antony Dwyer, flautist with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Only been listening to it since 1973. Still my favorite. Peace out...

[@CJ-dj3cx]

Placement on the lips depend greatly on the teeth. He also does not have the 45 degree posture so the lip side compensates. It is the most beautiful tone I the world! I love the lowest register myself and when my bandmaster said he was going to put me on piccolo I left. My daughter played it all through school as well. Gallway Plays Mancini is y favorite album .

[@briananderson8428]

My first time on your channel. Great Job!! Nicely done. I love your passion. I am betting you're a stellar flute teacher. You might look into doing some review of Elaine Shaffer (from the 1960s/1970s) as she plays the Bach Flute Sonatas. I've never heard a tone so round.

[@scootermacarthy5990]

Ms Schaffer was an astounding player! I have her two Bach Sonata records and listen to them every so often. Very dark and rich sound she had!

[@alexcarter8807]

That Pahud guy is good! A modern-day Rampal maybe. Maybe actually better.

[@andrewvang9281]

Awesome and insightful video! For me, my favorite sounds come from Seiya Ueno and Cathy Ransom.

[@thomasmend4321]

Would love to hear more of my favorite flutist.. my cousin Judith Mendenhall. I love to hear her play!

[@thezuney7725]

I think it is kind of hard to compare when you have slow and fast movements one from another. All those players are certainly stunningly agreed.😊

[@Tubluer]

Great video. Today I learned a thing or two. It's interesting, you seem to feel tone the same way I do.

[@witneyskye5556]

Thank you for the inspiration! My current favourite flutist is Bill McBirnie. He specializes in playing jazz/Latin jazz. Actually, I have two current favourites...Gary Schocker

[@TheFlutePractice]

Oooo. Great players!

[@yishihara55527]

Gary has accompanied me on piano before. Nice guy, but I'm not exactly a fan of his flute playing. Some of his works as a composer are ok.

[@JayCee-hw4zc]

Fabulous analysis! Thank you

[@cristinagrigore4876]

Part 2 please!

[@thewaternetwork8124]

super helpful! part 2 please!!!

[@leekoss7083]

I enjoyed listening to your video as a was walking to shopping @ Trader Joe’s and back. Just subbed!❤❤

[@TheFlutePractice]

Welcome to the community 👏🏼👏🏼