These recordings from 1970 through 1974 represent the cream of the crop of James Galway's recordings as the principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and for what it is, it can't be beat. Although Galway's tone of molten gold and technique of tensile steel is evident on every track from his warmly romantic Morning Mood from Grieg's Peer Gynt through his warmly lyric Concertante Andante grazioso from Mozart's "Posthorn" Serenade to his warmly erotic Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome, only fans will instantly pick out ...
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These recordings from 1970 through 1974 represent the cream of the crop of James Galway's recordings as the principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and for what it is, it can't be beat. Although Galway's tone of molten gold and technique of tensile steel is evident on every track from his warmly romantic Morning Mood from Grieg's Peer Gynt through his warmly lyric Concertante Andante grazioso from Mozart's "Posthorn" Serenade to his warmly erotic Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome, only fans will instantly pick out his playing from the uniformly voluptuous sonorities of the Berlin Philharmonic at the height of Herbert von Karajan's power. Certainly, Galway is lovely in the Concertante, but who would say he is lovelier than clarinetist Lothar Koch? Surely Galway is affecting in the Domine Deus from Bach's B minor Mass, but who would say he is more affecting than soprano Gundula Janowitz or tenor Peter Schreier? And in the four movements excerpted from two of Reicha's Wind Quintets, Galway is...
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