Your 3 Favorite Flute Albums?

greenspiderweb · Post by **greenspiderweb** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:14 pm

OK, if you can't narrow it down to 3, then try 5. If you can't do that, go ahead and make a list!

I'd like to try to keep it as solo flute albums, or close to it (a few musicians that flute is the majority). But, if you don't have any that aren't multi-instrumental, just put down what you like anyway.

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:27 pm

Besides the WFO's:
Mike Rafferty - Speed 78
Lawrence Nugent - Two for Two
Colm O'Donnell - Farewell to Evening Dances
Kevin Henry - One's Own Place

BrendanB · Post by **BrendanB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:31 pm

greenspiderweb wrote: I'd like to try to keep it as solo flute albums, or close to it (a few musicians that flute is the majority). But, if you don't have any that aren't multi-instrumental, just put down what you like anyway.

While there are a lot of great solo flute albums, sometimes the best flute albums are duet or group albums. Personally, I think having more than one musician opens up the space for more interesting things that don't come across on a solo album.

I'm sure that the usual classics will come up, but here are a couple albums that people don't always mention.
- Lamond Gillespie/John Blake - Traditional Irish Music From London
- Cian - Three Shouts from the Hill
- Maple Leaf - Traditional Music From Boston
- Aidan McMahon and Anthony Quigney - A Clare Conscience
- Maple Leaf - Traditional Irish Music From Boston (do you notice a theme?)
- P.J. Crotty and James Cullinane - Happy To Meet
- The Maiden Voyage album
- can't resist - Matt Molloy and Sean Keane - Contentment is Wealth

There are just so many good albums. I think there was a previous thread that was pretty much asking the same question.

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:34 pm

And I'd love to get ahold of something by Fintan Vallely, but couldn't find anything last I looked.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:44 pm

Man, I'll have to think about this, tough to pick just 3, or even 5......

Loren

greenspiderweb · Post by **greenspiderweb** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:50 pm

Loren wrote:Man, I'll have to think about this, tough to pick just 3, or even 5......

Loren

You don't have to, just a suggestion for those who have fewer.

maracirac · Post by **maracirac** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:12 pm

marcas o'murchu- o bheal ... ( sheme that he didn't record anything else)
harry bradley - bad turns and... ( AND SECOND ALBUM ALSO)
fintan vallely- traditoinal irish flute music ( i only have that one of him)
catherine mcevoy album
frenkie kennedy and m. mooney- ceol aduaidh
nort wind album, and so on ....
marin

maracirac · Post by **maracirac** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:13 pm

and hammy hamilton- moneymusk of course!
marin

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:24 pm

Chris Norman -- The man with the wooden flute. IIRC, you like waltzes, Barry, and this one and The Flower of Port Williams have some of the best waltzes done on flute that I know of

Garry Shannon -- Loozin' Air. The opening cut on WFO 1 is the opening cut on this, and it only gets better

Catherine McEvoy -- Traditional music in the Sligo/Roscommon style
Harry Bradley -- As carelessly I did stray
Mike and Mary Rafferty -- I really couldn't pick
Jack and Charlie Coen -- The Branch Line

These last few are not only great fluting and great music in general, but I find them very good to study and learn from.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:37 pm

Heck with it: Off the top of my head, "solo" flute CD's I listen to the most are:

Emer Mayock - Merry Bits of Timber
Emer Mayock - Playground
McGoldrick - Morning Rory
McGoldrick - Fused (and Wired)
Kevin Crawford - D flute
WFO 1
Colm O'Donnell - Farewell to Evening Dances
John Skelton - One at at time
Seamus Egan - When Juniper Sleeps
Nugent - Two for Two

Okay, I'm stopping at 10, and if I thought about it, the list would probably change.

Sadly, I don't have nearly enough "pure drop" in my collection, as I haven't been in a position to buy many CD's over the last few years. I wish I had more of the slower, relaxed pace playing in my collection, as that's actually what I enjoy most, when it's well done.

Loren

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:48 pm

Seems like most of my favorites are on Loren's list:

Kevin Crawford- D Flute and In Good Company
McGoldrick- Wired
Colm O'Doinnell- Farewell to Evening Dances
McGoldrick and McSherry- At First Light.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:49 pm

1st recordings by Harry Bradley, Conal O'Grada and Matt Molloy. If you allow 5, Kevin Henry and Seamus Tansey. Non-Irish, 1st by Jean-Michel Veillon.

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:08 pm

Paddy Carty - Traditional Music of Ireland (The banjo one). Do I get brownie points for mentioning it first?

Kevin Crawford - In Good Company

Catherine McEvoy - the Sligo/Roscommon album

Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze

I just acquired Speed 78 about a week ago but have not had the time to devote to it yet

kkrell · Post by **kkrell** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:49 pm

maracirac wrote:marcas o'murchu- o bheal ... ( sheme that he didn't record anything else)

2nd CD "TURAS CEOIL" due this month or thereabouts. Publishers http://www.cic.ie/ , same as the 1st.

Kevin Krell

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:25 pm

Kevin Crawford "'D' flute album"
John Wynne "With Every Breath"
"Old Geezers"

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