Composer: Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Cerha, Franz Doppler, Ernst Krenek, Paul Amadeus Pisk, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Ulf-Dieter Schaaff, Thomas Wellen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Es-Dur
Catalogue: ES2061
Release: 2015
Size: 499 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Légende dramatique
01. Danse des Sylphes, bearbeitet für Flöte und Klavier
Cerha: Sieben Anekdoten für Flöte und Klavier
02. I. —
03. II. —
04. III. —
05. IV. —
06. V. —
07. VI. Flauto solo
08. VII. Potpourri
Schubert: Introduktion und Variationen über das Lied “Trockne Blumen” für Flöte und Klavier in E-Moll, Op. Posth. 160, D. 802
09. Introduktion. Andante
10. Thema. Andantino
11. Variation I.
12. Variation II.
13. Variation III.
14. Variation IV.
15. Variation V.
16. Variation VI.
17. Variation VII. Allegro
Krenek: School Music, Op. 85
18. Nocturne für Flöte und Klavier
19. Pisk: Introduction and Rondo für Flöte und Klavier, Op. 61
20. Doppler: Fantaisie pastorale hongroise für Flöte und Klavier, Op. 26
Franz Schubert’s Variations for flute and piano on Trockne Blumen (Dried Flowers) from the song-cycle ‘Die schöne Mullerin’ is considered the most important flute work of the Romantic period. It forms the centrepiece of flautist Ulf-Dieter Schaaff’s recital, ‘Airmail from Vienna’, of music with Viennese connections: highly virtuosic and lyrical, classical and modern, atonal and jazzy.
The composers Franz Schubert, Ernst Krenek, Friedrich Cerha and Paul Amadeus Pisk were all born in Vienna, while Franz Doppler (composer of the popular bravura piece ‘Fantaisie pastorale hongroise’) was a co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic and principal flute of the Vienna Court Opera. And Berlioz’s ‘Sylphentanz’ (from The Damnation of Faust) has been reworked for flute and piano by Vienna-based composer Joseph Diermaier (born 1964).
Born in Düsseldorf, Ulf-Dieter Schaaf has been the solo flautist of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin since 1995. He’s played in the Berliner Philharmonic and in addition to his solo and chamber music activities with pianist Thomas Wellen amongst others, he is an internationally renowned teacher. In 2000, he took over a flute class at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar.