Here's something for the collector who has everything: these four Danish duos for two flutes have never been recorded. In fact, almost no music by their composer, Niels Peter Jensen, has appeared on recordings at all. And they're delightfully well formed. Jensen, a blind composer active in the early nineteenth century, wrote music in various genres but especially for the flute, which he played. He wrote several sets of flute duets. The ones here display a certain Danish conservatism, and they're something of a stylistic ...
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Here's something for the collector who has everything: these four Danish duos for two flutes have never been recorded. In fact, almost no music by their composer, Niels Peter Jensen, has appeared on recordings at all. And they're delightfully well formed. Jensen, a blind composer active in the early nineteenth century, wrote music in various genres but especially for the flute, which he played. He wrote several sets of flute duets. The ones here display a certain Danish conservatism, and they're something of a stylistic grab bag. In places they hark back to Telemann's chamber music, with sprightly figuration and even harmonic rhythms. Several central minuets show the influence of Haydn's humor. And the finales (sample track 6 for a taste of the music's charms) effectively transfer the flavor of Italian virtuoso sonatas and concertos to a duo context, with the two instruments capering and whirling around each other like young dogs playing in a field. Despite the stylistic mixture, the music doesn't come...
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Add this copy of Niels Peter Jensen: Duos Pour Deux Flutes to cart. $21.76, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Dacapo Classical.
