Henry Brant: Music for Massed Flutes witnesses the long-awaited first issue on CD of the historic 1951 New York Flute Club recording of Brant's masterpiece Angels and Devils, which even CRI did not re-release in the digital era, even as they did so twice on vinyl. This was the first time a flute choir was recorded in a work written for one, and indeed, Brant's Angels and Devils is confirmed now as the first work written for a flute choir of any kind. However, as good as Angels and Devils is, the "filler" by the present-day ...
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Henry Brant: Music for Massed Flutes witnesses the long-awaited first issue on CD of the historic 1951 New York Flute Club recording of Brant's masterpiece Angels and Devils, which even CRI did not re-release in the digital era, even as they did so twice on vinyl. This was the first time a flute choir was recorded in a work written for one, and indeed, Brant's Angels and Devils is confirmed now as the first work written for a flute choir of any kind. However, as good as Angels and Devils is, the "filler" by the present-day New York Flute Club under Robert Aitken easily matches, if not exceeds, the main event. Ghosts and Gargoyles was composed by Brant in 2001 as a kind of an "answer" to Angels and Devils, and it is lusciously beautiful and mysterious; ghostly flute voices call from various distances, merged with fragments of Renaissance polychoral music and, at one point, a trap drummer. Mass in Gregorian is just as shimmering, white, ghostly, and awe inspiring, but more minimal -- Gregorian chant...
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