Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31	1	2	3	4

Rachel Brown, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman - Johann Joachim Quantz: Flute Concertos (1997)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 30 Apr 2024 14:07:59

Rachel Brown, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman - Johann Joachim Quantz: Flute Concertos (1997)

Flautists tend to know that Quantz gave flute lessons to Frederick the Great and that he wrote about 300 concertos for the instrument. Only a few of these concertos have been easily accessible in print or on disc. However, in this welcome recording of five Quantz concertos, flautist Rachel Brown seems the perfect ambassador to bring a few of these unfamiliar but intriguing works back into the repertoire. Whether playing a Baroque-inspired fugue, a more ‘classically styled’ Allegro or languid slow movement, Brown’s daring expression and technical brilliance – together with the Brandenburg Consort’s focused sound and racy pace – seem intuitive. Quantz and Brown appear together again, briefly, in Concert in Sanssouci. ‘Sans souci’ means ‘without worry’, and was the name of Frederick the Great’s country house near Potsdam. A certain joie de vivre is in the air in this recreation of a typical evening’s concert chez Frederick. The Hanover Band, under Roy Goodman, plays with real spirit, although Nathalie Stutzmann’s rich contralto lends a more melancholic feel in arias by CH Graun. Although Frank de Bruine is a rather understated soloist in the CPE Bach oboe concerto, the band’s dynamic interpretations and composer’s inventiveness win through.

Review by Kate Sherriff, BBC Music Magazine

Quantz’s posthumous fame has always rested with his treatise On Playing the Flute and with the fact that he was Frederick the Great’s favourite musician. That his flute music should hold much interest in itself is not so often considered, since it suffers from the dual handicap of being both a vast output (which always puts people off) and a conservative one. Three hundred years after the composer was born, however, this last fact need not worry us any more than it has done Rachel Brown, who has spent a good deal of time searching through manuscripts in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Her efforts have paid off in this well-executed and entertaining selection of five of Quantz’s 300-odd flute concertos. As she herself says in an excellent booklet-note, Quantz was “no Mozart or Haydn”, but his music is affable and soundly constructed, and there is enough stylistic variety to remind us that, while his concertos are unquestionably in the formal mould of Vivaldi, his career overlapped with those of more recognizably pre-classical – and indeed operatic – figures such as Hasse and Graun.

Brown’s performances are as expert in their combination of strength and elegance as we have come to expect from her, and she uses a copy of a flute made by Quantz himself which produces a caressingly dark tone, especially in the lower reaches (try out its mellow blend with muted strings in the slow movement of the C minor Concerto, or its duet with bassoon in that of the G minor, to see what I mean). The Brandenburg Consort’s accompaniments are bright and energetic, with Roy Goodman directing some from the harpsichord and some from the fortepiano, the latter being a departure from the norm which gives a pleasing extra bounce to the texture but is perhaps a shade over-represented in the balance. This may not be gripping music, but it and its performers certainly make engaging company.'

Review by Lindsay Kemp, Gramophone

Johann Quantz at Allmusic
Johann Quantz at Wiki

Rachel Brown at Allmusic
Rachel Brown Website
Rachel Brown at Wiki

Roy Goodman at Allmusic
Roy Goodman Website
Roy Goodman at Wiki

Rachel Brown (flute)
The Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman (directed from the fortepiano and harpsichord)

flute: copy of a Quantz flute with two keys (c1740) by Rudolf Tutz (1996)
fortepiano: by Marc Ducornet, after Johann Andreas Stein (c1780) lent by Carole Cerasi
harpsichord by Martin Roscoe, after Pascal Taskin (c1769)

Recorded on 15–17 October 1996

Tracklist:

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)

Concerto in A major No 256
01. Allegro di molto (5:39)
02. Arioso ma con tenerezza (7:31)
03. Presto (4:20)

Concerto in B minor No 5
04. Larghetto (4:24)
05. Allegro (3:31)
06. Adagio (2:45)
07. Allegro (3:40)

Concerto in C minor No 216
08. Allegro (5:51)
09. Affettuoso ma un poco lento (6:44)
10. Presto (4:00)

Concerto in G major No 29
11. Allegro assai (5:13)
12. Lento - Andante - Lento (3:14)
13. Vivace (3:37)

Concerto in G minor No 290
14. Allegro di molto (5:35)
15. Affettuoso (6:17)
16. Presto (3:47)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 30. October 2011, 19:31

Rachel Brown, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman / Quantz - Flute Concertos

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4083N Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 5:38.65 | 0 | 25414
2 | 5:38.65 | 7:30.67 | 25415 | 59231
3 | 13:09.57 | 4:20.05 | 59232 | 78736
4 | 17:29.62 | 4:23.40 | 78737 | 98501
5 | 21:53.27 | 3:31.35 | 98502 | 114361
6 | 25:24.62 | 2:45.15 | 114362 | 126751
7 | 28:10.02 | 3:39.48 | 126752 | 143224
8 | 31:49.50 | 5:51.35 | 143225 | 169584
9 | 37:41.10 | 6:44.35 | 169585 | 199919
10 | 44:25.45 | 3:59.52 | 199920 | 217896
11 | 48:25.22 | 5:13.10 | 217897 | 241381
12 | 53:38.32 | 3:13.65 | 241382 | 255921
13 | 56:52.22 | 3:36.50 | 255922 | 272171
14 | 60:28.72 | 5:35.00 | 272172 | 297296
15 | 66:03.72 | 6:17.15 | 297297 | 325586
16 | 72:21.12 | 3:47.20 | 325587 | 342631

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename J:\Music\Bach - The Complete Organ Music - Herrick\Quantz - Flute Concertos.wav

Peak level 86.3 %
Range quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC A16CCF15
Copy OK

No errors occurred

End of status report

AR log

[CUETools log; Date: 28.07.2018 17:13:17; Version: 2.1.4]
[CTDB TOCID: FjymhOr4I6wgQFv5gw7j5pDBZ5w-] found.
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
2 | (12/13) Accurately ripped
3 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
4 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
5 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
6 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
7 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
8 | (12/13) Accurately ripped
9 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
10 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
11 | (10/13) Differs in 4 samples @01:46:36-01:46:37
12 | (10/13) Differs in 9 samples @02:39:71
13 | (11/13) Accurately ripped
14 | (12/13) Accurately ripped
15 | (12/13) Accurately ripped
16 | (11/13) Accurately ripped
[AccurateRip ID: 002d4c2b-02193002-cf11d810] found.
Track [ CRC | V2 ] Status
01 [dcad101b|ac553bf9] (05+08/18) Accurately ripped
02 [38b204d1|72d08823] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
03 [814707fc|3d64cc05] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
04 [a197aca4|b9a002f4] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
05 [519d82d2|292f0d5b] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
06 [5739d548|ab627ce1] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
07 [b810318b|5146a37c] (06+07/18) Accurately ripped
08 [6121216f|18d0bf5a] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
09 [ab405b1a|76c270ea] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
10 [c1ffebda|cf54a5c7] (05+08/18) Accurately ripped
11 [2cfcaa9a|5b920978] (00+00/19) No match
12 [cf3174cc|cb374b7e] (00+00/19) No match
13 [6b29cbfc|19110665] (06+08/19) Accurately ripped
14 [6b7cce50|d0084bc7] (06+07/18) Accurately ripped
15 [613661e2|f26fbe10] (05+07/17) Accurately ripped
16 [ff1b7975|bd846cba] (05+07/17) Accurately ripped
Offsetted by -753:
01 [025b5ea8] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
02 [1be7bc65] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
03 [9eebd700] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
04 [522558b8] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
05 [25089281] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
06 [2cca2336] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
07 [61191a19] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
08 [d17c9803] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
09 [c5aceffc] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
10 [8e962041] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
11 [ccde4543] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
12 [8f13ce89] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
13 [6573cb54] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
14 [35051bea] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
15 [2cc2f9fb] (00/17) No match (V2 was not tested)
16 [3f1c6b76] (00/17) No match (V2 was not tested)
Offsetted by -71:
01 [710ce4b5] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
02 [ec0e25ac] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
03 [23496747] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
04 [9bd1f19f] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
05 [2a816837] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
06 [53a80b12] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
07 [5cdb8510] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
08 [41ff21f0] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
09 [d718c417] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
10 [490419f7] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
11 [4b0ab794] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
12 [8e83d418] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
13 [a55f68ed] (00/19) No match (V2 was not tested)
14 [b80a2cc6] (00/18) No match (V2 was not tested)
15 [6e645c82] (00/17) No match (V2 was not tested)
16 [fb9a931f] (00/17) No match (V2 was not tested)

Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 86,3 [9F6A5244] [A16CCF15] W/O NULL
01 84,6 [6C0219D5] [45B64D0D]
02 48,6 [E126476F] [2540076E]
03 57,5 [0A786718] [5FCE5216]
04 43,6 [4C45C6FC] [5BDDFA40]
05 52,3 [C8F1DC60] [D52ACAF5]
06 37,4 [73D52460] [885389F5]
07 43,5 [B5B813C1] [1566C6FC]
08 61,6 [427EC649] [421867C4]
09 40,8 [6782A010] [3F6CEF41]
10 57,3 [637D3762] [627152C0]
11 75,7 [178CFA0C] [764A41A9]
12 51,4 [F525ACB6] [66E104AF]
13 64,0 [0742E970] [0D205ACB]
14 86,3 [3A2D2A15] [EB915829]
15 53,3 [B16FAB45] [B718587A]
16 64,6 [E47BE8C5] [CE07A68C]

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-07-28 17:12:21

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Rachel Brown, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman / Quantz - Flute Concertos
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR15 -1.45 dB -21.15 dB 5:39 01-Concerto in A major No 256 - Allegro di molto
DR13 -6.26 dB -24.74 dB 7:31 02-Concerto in A major No 256 - Arioso ma con tenerezza
DR14 -4.80 dB -22.40 dB 4:20 03-Concerto in A major No 256 - Presto
DR13 -7.21 dB -23.87 dB 4:24 04-Concerto in B minor No 5 - Larghetto
DR13 -5.62 dB -24.03 dB 3:31 05-Concerto in B minor No 5 - Allegro
DR12 -8.54 dB -27.79 dB 2:45 06-Concerto in B minor No 5 - Adagio
DR12 -7.22 dB -23.71 dB 3:40 07-Concerto in B minor No 5 - Allegro
DR14 -4.20 dB -22.73 dB 5:51 08-Concerto in C minor No 216 - Allegro
DR12 -7.78 dB -24.77 dB 6:44 09-Concerto in C minor No 216 - Affettuoso ma un poco lento
DR13 -4.83 dB -21.40 dB 4:00 10-Concerto in C minor No 216 - Presto
DR15 -2.41 dB -21.83 dB 5:13 11-Concerto in G major No 29 - Allegro assai
DR13 -5.76 dB -23.96 dB 3:14 12-Concerto in G major No 29 - Lento - Andante - Lento
DR14 -3.87 dB -21.92 dB 3:37 13-Concerto in G major No 29 - Vivace
DR14 -1.28 dB -21.00 dB 5:35 14-Concerto in G minor No 290 - Allegro di molto
DR13 -5.46 dB -23.19 dB 6:17 15-Concerto in G minor No 290 - Affettuoso
DR14 -3.79 dB -21.45 dB 3:47 16-Concerto in G minor No 290 - Presto
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 595 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

All thanks to original releaser

More interesting music in My Blog

90s Classical Lossless Rachel Brown The Brandenburg Consort Roy Goodman Classical Music FLAC MP3 Johann Joachim Quantz CD-Rip Flute