“Emmanuel Pahud plays with a pleasingly rounded tone, a commendably restrained vibrato and, above all an unerring sense of what the music has to offer. …in the B minor Sonata, the diamond of the collection, Pahud and his sensitive harpsichord partner, Trevor Pinnock, are unrivalled.” --BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 *****
“Bach flute sonata recordings on modern instruments are not unknown but a 'complete' set of all seven authentic and doubtful works, plus the Sonata for two flutes and continuo (better known as the G major Gamba Sonata), is bit of a rarity. That said, we can be glad that the excellent Emmanuel Pahud is the one to have taken up the challenge, for this is a recording of great skill and refinement which should give considerable pleasure. He has teamed up with distinguished Baroque-specialising partners to achieve results that are technically assured and stylistically confident.
The most immediately attractive feature of these performances is their touching and gentle beauty; Pahud never forces the sound and maintains an evenly controlled tone at all times, with no tightening on high notes or straining on low ones. It is true that he is without the constant subtle shadings possible on a Baroque wooden flute, but for the most part Pahud's playing shows a sensitive concern for detailed and enlivening articulation without being slave to it, and a keen sense of the music's greater rise and fall, revealed in some drowsily relaxed slow movements.
The recording is not generous to the harpsichord, which, while crisply caressed as ever by Pinnock, is too far back to contribute as meaningfully as it should in the sonatas where it has an obbligato role equal to the flute's, and neither is there any great sweetening of sound for compensation. But this is fine stuff nevertheless.” --Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
“…this is a recording of great skill and refinement which should give considerable pleasure. …Pahud never forces the sound and maintains an evenly controlled tone at all times, with no tightening on high notes or straining on low ones.” --Gramophone Magazine, March 2009
“Pahud is principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic, and his larger than life playing here is the equivalent of that orchestra playing a Brandenburg concerto - magnificent in its way, but not quite how Bach would have imagined it.” --The Guardian, 24th October 2008 ***
2 CD · MP3 320 · 224 MB
The most immediately attractive feature of these performances is their touching and gentle beauty; Pahud never forces the sound and maintains an evenly controlled tone at all times, with no tightening on high notes or straining on low ones. It is true that he is without the constant subtle shadings possible on a Baroque wooden flute, but for the most part Pahud's playing shows a sensitive concern for detailed and enlivening articulation without being slave to it, and a keen sense of the music's greater rise and fall, revealed in some drowsily relaxed slow movements.
The recording is not generous to the harpsichord, which, while crisply caressed as ever by Pinnock, is too far back to contribute as meaningfully as it should in the sonatas where it has an obbligato role equal to the flute's, and neither is there any great sweetening of sound for compensation. But this is fine stuff nevertheless.” --Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
“…this is a recording of great skill and refinement which should give considerable pleasure. …Pahud never forces the sound and maintains an evenly controlled tone at all times, with no tightening on high notes or straining on low ones.” --Gramophone Magazine, March 2009
“Pahud is principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic, and his larger than life playing here is the equivalent of that orchestra playing a Brandenburg concerto - magnificent in its way, but not quite how Bach would have imagined it.” --The Guardian, 24th October 2008 ***
2 CD · MP3 320 · 224 MB
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