Australian flutist Bridget Bolliger, known as the artistic director of the Sydney Chamber Music Festival, presents a diverse range of works on this recital disc. Of particular interest is the world premiere recording of Jim Coyle’s “Paradise of Birds” suite for flute and piano – a tribute to Bolliger’s home continent, and the perfect link between Europe (where all other music on this recording comes from) and Australia, where all Europeans long to spend their winter months.
Claude-Achille Debussy
Bilitis for flute and piano (1914) (arr. K. Lenski)
- Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été (Modéré - dans le style d'une pastorale)
- Pour un tombeau sans nom (Triste et lent)
- Pour que la nuit soit propice (Lent et expressif)
- Pour la danseuse aux crotales (Andantino - souple et sans rigueur)
- Pour l'Égyptienne (Très modéré)
- Pour remericier la pluie au matin (Modéré)
Bohuslav Martinu
Sonata for flute and piano, H. 306 (1945)
- Allegro moderato
- Adagio
- Allegro poco moderato
Frank Martin
Ballade for flute and piano (1939)
Jim Coyle
Paradise of Birds for flute and piano
- Prelude
- Forest Raven
- Pied Cormorant
- Silver Gull
- Eastern Yellow Robin
- Cassowary
- Pink Robin
- Emerald Dove
- New Holland Honeyeater
- Superb Fairy Wren
- Brush Turkey
- Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Postlude
