Pan & Apoll: Water Music for Flute & Harp Classical Chamber Hanssler

Pan & Apoll: Water Music for Flute & Harp

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HA 0041

Pan & Apoll: Water Music for Flute & Harp

Label Catalogue Number:
HC20041

Running Time: 01:14:25

Release Date: October 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical
Chamber

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Pan and Apollo – or to put it in musical terms: wind and string instruments. Both of them ancient gods from Greek mythology: Pan, god of shepherds, the forests and nature and Apollo, son of Zeus, prophetic god of music – each representing their own instrument. Ovid’s Metamorphoses tell of the contest, Pan with his syrinx (pipes of pan) and Apollo strumming on his lyre. J.S. Bach took this theme for his famous cantata Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (Calm, you whirling winds) (Secular cantatas Vol 9 BWV 201, 207a). But this recording is not a contest between the two instruments (in our case, the flute and the harp), rather something quite different. Staying in the realm of ancient Greece: water, the theme of this release, comes from the “four elements” doctrine of the ancient Greek philosophers. And that is not the only remarkable feature of this recording. Alongside the beauty of the chamber music, the clarity and lucidity of both instruments, lies the enjoyment of precious musical rarities.

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"... Alja Velkaverh's radiant flute sound and Antonia Achreiber's radiant harp ought to delight you as much as the selections themselves or the quality of the recording..."

Todd Gorman – American Record Guide – May/June 2021

“A nicely thought-out Greek myth-inspired album … The players dance with vigour and float ethereally in equal measure.” ****

Jeremy Pound - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - January 2021

“… Both musicians are engaged in leading roles for their instrument in the orchestra and have played together repeatedly. They therefore combine their voices in an unaffected manner and throughout the entire programme always reveal the sparkling lightness of the music.” ****

Uwe Krusch - Pizzicato.lu – 23 October 2020

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