MSR Classics' Jeanne Baxtresser: A Collection of My Favorites is like a gift from the heavens to flute players. Very few among their number get to record a full program on CD, and even Baxtresser hasn't gained anywhere near the attention on disc that her illustrious colleagues James Galway and the late Jean-Pierre Rampal have gained. Nevertheless, Baxtresser has long been established as one of the very best in her field, as principal flute in the New York Philharmonic and as a teacher at the New England Conservatory of ...
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MSR Classics' Jeanne Baxtresser: A Collection of My Favorites is like a gift from the heavens to flute players. Very few among their number get to record a full program on CD, and even Baxtresser hasn't gained anywhere near the attention on disc that her illustrious colleagues James Galway and the late Jean-Pierre Rampal have gained. Nevertheless, Baxtresser has long been established as one of the very best in her field, as principal flute in the New York Philharmonic and as a teacher at the New England Conservatory of Music, Carnegie-Mellon, Juilliard, and other top music schools. Although this looks like a new recording, it is a compilation of past efforts, nonetheless all digitally recorded, drawn from the catalogs of defunct labels such as Pro Arte and IMP. It is not so much the worse for that, as Baxtresser's tone on the flute never wears out one's ears; it is pure yet warm and dark, never shrill or excessively wobbly.The first seven tracks encompass the whole of Baxtresser's 1987 Pro Arte release...
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