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Aquarelles

Bonita Boyd

Aquarelles

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404953927
Catnr: BRIDG 9539
Release date: 09 April 2021
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404953927
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9539
Release date
09 April 2021
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Aquarelles brings together three world class musicians- Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane and Barry Snyder, performing four classics from the flute, cello, and piano repertoire. Bonita Boyd began her career with the Rochester Philharmonic under David Zinman, becoming the youngest principal flutist of a major American orchestra. Steven Doane and Barry Snyder have recorded extensively for Bridge, their recordings receiving rave reviews and awards from journals in the USA and Europe.

Aquarelles bringt drei Weltklassemusiker - Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane und Barry Snyder - zusammen, die vier Klassiker aus dem Flöten-, Cello- und Klavierrepertoire aufführen. Bonita Boyd begann ihre Karriere mit dem Rochester Philharmonic unter David Zinman und wurde die jüngste Soloflötistin eines großen amerikanischen Orchesters. Steven Doane und Barry Snyder haben zahlreiche Aufnahmen für Bridge eingespielt, die von Fachzeitschriften in den USA und Europa mit begeisterten Kritiken und Auszeichnungen bedacht wurden.


Artist(s)

Bonita Boyd (flute)

Born in Pittsburgh, Bonita Boyd grew up in Long Beach, California. Her early teachers included Maurice Sharp of the Cleveland Orchestra, Roger Stevens of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Joseph Mariano, principal flutist of the Rochester Philharmonic and legendary pedagogue of the Eastman School of Music.  Boyd succeeded Mariano in both posts, becoming the youngest person in the United States to hold major academic and orchestral appointments, as noted by Glamour Magazine when Bonita was featured in its “Outstanding Career Women of the Year” article. At age 21, Bonita was named Principal Flutist of the Rochester Philharmonic under Maestro David Zinman, a position she resigned in 1984 to devote herself to her growing solo career.  Boyd gave an acclaimed New York debut recital...
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Born in Pittsburgh, Bonita Boyd grew up in Long Beach, California. Her early teachers included Maurice Sharp of the Cleveland Orchestra, Roger Stevens of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Joseph Mariano, principal flutist of the Rochester Philharmonic and legendary pedagogue of the Eastman School of Music. Boyd succeeded Mariano in both posts, becoming the youngest person in the United States to hold major academic and orchestral appointments, as noted by Glamour Magazine when Bonita was featured in its “Outstanding Career Women of the Year” article.

At age 21, Bonita was named Principal Flutist of the Rochester Philharmonic under Maestro David Zinman, a position she resigned in 1984 to devote herself to her growing solo career. Boyd gave an acclaimed New York debut recital 1980, which was described by the New York Times as “a flabbergasting account of her talents.” Three years later she made her Los Angeles debut of which Albert Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times said, “James Galway and Jean-Pierre Rampal are now joined in the forward ranks by a young American girl named Bonita Boyd”. Subsequently she made her first solo tours of Europe and the Far East, during which the Frankfurter Allgemeine hailed her as “a musician of great dimension”. She has since performed as recitalist throughout the world and as soloist with such orchestras as the National Gallery Orchestra, National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, Chautauqua Symphony, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Denver Chamber Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Pusan (Korea) Symphony Orchestra, Western Australia Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Polish Radio Orchestra, and Vilnius (Lithuania) Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, California Chamber Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and Albuquerque Symphony, and Victoria Symphony (CBC). She served as Principal Flutist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (1971-1984), Chautauqua Symphony (1971-1977), Filarmonica de las Americas (Mexico City), and the Aspen Festival Symphony Orchestra (1998-2015). She has been a member of the artist faculties of such festivals asChautauqua, Bowdoin, Johannesen International Festival, Hamamatsu Seminar (Japan), Aspen Music Festival, and guest artist at Eastern Music Festival, MasterWorks, Marlboro, National Orchestral Institute, and Teton Festival. She has been a Fulbright Grant recipient, and has been President of the National Flute Association, a 5000-member international organization of flutists from around the world. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Eastman School of Music since her appointment in1976.

Bonita Boyd has premiered numerous works, including Samuel Adler’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1977), Warren Benson’s Five Lyrics of Louis Bogan (1978) and Concertino for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, Sonata for Solo Flute of Miklos Rosza (1983), Eclipse Musings of Augusta Reed Thomas (1998), Eric Sessler’s Hammerhead for Flute and Guitar (2006), the first performance at the National Flute Association Convention of Melinda Wagner’s Pulitzer Award-winning Flute Concerto (2010), and has made the premiere recordings of many others, including Roberto Sierra’s Concierto Caribe (1996), Liptak Songs of Persephone (2010), and Maslanka’s Duo for Flute and Piano (1997). Her recording, Flute Music of Les Six, was honored by Stereo Review in its Record of the Year Awards, and her Paganini Caprices CD was on the final ballot for a Grammy nomination. Recent releases include the premiere recording of Bernstein’s Halil (chamber version), and a new CD, Quicksilver, with renowned guitarist Nicholas Goluses and guest artist, Metropolitan opera star, Katherine Lewek.

Bonita has made radio recordings with the Bavarian Rundfunk, Oslo, West Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Hague, Brussels, Australian Broadcasting, and Canadian Broadcasting networks. Among her television specials have been two PBS Television Specials as soloist, Tokyo recital debut televised on Japanese Cable Television, Santa Domingo Symphony soloist debut on Latin American National Television, and a solo debut with the Polish Radio Orchestra on live Polish National Television.

Ms. Boyd has recently been named a Lifetime Achievement Award winner by the National Flute Association, joining the ranks of such legendary flutists as James Galway and Julius Baker.

Bonita has been awarded the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Eastman School of Music, and her students occupy major orchestral and teaching posts throughout the world. She and her late husband, Christian Soderstrom, a Swedish engineer, have three sons.


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Steven Doane (cello)

Barry Snyder (piano)

Composer(s)

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantische Oper (Romantic opera) in Germany. Der Freischütz came to be regarded as the first German 'nationalist' opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to an unprecedented degree, while Oberon may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures. This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an...
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Carl Maria von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantische Oper (Romantic opera) in Germany. Der Freischütz came to be regarded as the first German "nationalist" opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to an unprecedented degree, while Oberon may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures. This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularised by Mozart and others.

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Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. Martinů wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinů left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. In the 1930s he experimented with expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of current European technical developments, exemplified by his orchestral works Half-time and La Bagarre. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his La revue de cuisine ('Kitchen Revue'). In the early 1930s he found his main fount for compositional style, the...
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Bohuslav Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. Martinů wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinů left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. In the 1930s he experimented with expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of current European technical developments, exemplified by his orchestral works Half-time and La Bagarre. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his La revue de cuisine ("Kitchen Revue").
In the early 1930s he found his main fount for compositional style, the neoclassicism as developed by Stravinsky. With this, he expanded to become a prolific composer, composing chamber, orchestral, choral and instrumental works at a fast rate. His use of the piano obbligato became his signature. His Concerto Grosso and the Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani are among his best known works from this period. Among his operas, Julietta and The Greek Passion are considered the finest. He is compared with Prokofiev and Bartók in his innovative incorporation of Central European ethnomusicology into his music. He continued to use Bohemian and Moravian folk melodies throughout his oeuvre, usually nursery rhymes—for instance in Otvírání studánek ("The Opening of the Wells").
His symphonic career began when he emigrated to the United States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France, to compose his six symphonies, which were performed by all the major US orchestras. Eventually Bohuslav Martinů returned to live in Europe for two years starting in 1953, then was back in New York until returning to Europe for good in May 1956. He died in Switzerland in August 1959.

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01.
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, H. 300: Poco allegretto
04:32
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
02.
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, H. 300: Adagio
08:19
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
03.
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, H. 300: Andante-Allegretto scherzando
08:23
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
04.
Trois Aquarelles for Flute, Violoncello, and Piano: Par un clair matin
07:01
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
05.
Trois Aquarelles for Flute, Violoncello, and Piano: Soir d'Automne
05:00
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
06.
Trois Aquarelles for Flute, Violoncello, and Piano: Serenade
04:23
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
07.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Prelude
01:33
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
08.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Rigaudon
02:01
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
09.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Aria
01:20
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
10.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Intermezzo
01:53
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
11.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Aria
00:40
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
12.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Sicilienne
03:23
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
13.
Sonate en concert for Flute, Piano, and Cello ad Libitum, Op. 17: Gigue
01:58
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
14.
Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello in G Minor, Op. 63: Allegro moderato
07:48
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
15.
Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello in G Minor, Op. 63: Scherzo
02:43
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
16.
Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello in G Minor, Op. 63: Schafers Klage
04:03
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
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Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello in G Minor, Op. 63: Finale
06:05
(Carl Maria von Weber, Bohuslav Martinů, Philippe Gaubert, Jean-Michel Damase) Bonita Boyd, Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
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