Blavet Concerto in A Minor for Flute and Piano Edited Rampal (IMC)

International Music Company presents Michael Blavet’s ‘Concerto in A minor’ for flute and piano edited by Jean-Pierre Rampal.

‘Michel Blavet (1700-1768) taught himself several wind instruments as a boy, eventually becoming accomplished on the bassoon and the flute. Blavet appeared at the Concert Spirituel in Paris more frequently than any other instrumentalist. He was famous throughout Europe for the beauty of his tone on the flute. The flute playing monarch Frederick the Great tried unsuccessfully to entice him to join his court in Berlin. Quantz and Telemann were among the musicians who wrote glowing comments on his playing. Though many of Blavet s sonatas for flute and continuo were in the galant style, Blavet s only surviving flute concerto is in slightly more conservative late-baroque style, which skilfully blends elements of the French dance style with those of the Italian concerto.’