Description
Flutes of two worlds: Greg Dikmans – baroque flute, recorder; Anne Norman – shakuhachi.
These two inspiring performers – renowned in their own fields – join forces to present a magical display of virtuosic delights and evocative soundscapes. A meeting-point of European and Japanese traditions – Breath of Creation is a journey through traditional folk melodies from England, Ireland and Japan, to the European art music of Bach, Couperin and Vivaldi. Also includes eastern meditations and collaborative improvisations.
Greg Dikmans
As a virtuoso of the baroque flute and recorder, conductor, educator and scholar, Greg Dikmans has been at the forefront of the Early Music movement in Australia for a number of years.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a performer, improvisor, composer and teacher of shakuhachi currently residing in Melbourne and working as a freelance artist in music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording work.
Anne and Greg’s collaboration, which began in 1994, aims at bridging two cultural traditions and includes composing new works and free improvisation.
Tracks and notes
- Variations on Doen Daphne d’over schoone maeght / Jacob van Eyck (06:15)
- Alone in a strange place / Anne Norman (04:23)
- Irish & English folk songs / Trad., arr. Greg Dickmans and Anne Norman (08:22)
- Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin, Le rossignol-en-amour / François Couperin (07:18)
- Tsuru no sugomori (nesting cranes) / Trad. (Honkyoku) (08:45)
- Music for a bird / Hans-Martin Linde (05:40)
- Shika no tone (distant cries of deer) / Trad. (Honkyoku), arr. Greg Dickmans and Anne Norman (03:09)
- Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428 “Il gardellino” Cadenza / Antonio Vivaldi (00:57)
- Koden Sugomori (nesting song) / Trad. (Honkyoku) (01:22)
- Ecoutez les sons touchants de la tendre, Philomel from Ile de Délos / Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (01:47)
- Japanese folk songs / Trad., arr. Anne Norman (07:51)
- Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 Sarabande / Johann Sebastian Bach (05:15)
- Spaces / Anne Norman (04:02)
- Daphne-bushi / Greg Dickmans and Anne Norman (06:13)
Traditional folk melodies from Japan, Ireland and England; European art music; Zen meditations, collaborative improvisations.
Complete with informative liner notes on the compositions, the instruments, and these two Australian musicians from two very different worlds.
Keith Griffin, Journal of the Australian Flute Association –
I highly recommend this CD to anyone with a penchant for the mystical, the unusual and the unexpected. The performances are first rate.
Ruth Wilkinson, Recorder and Early Music –
The measure of the success of this recording is that it leaves one listening not just to the musical works themselves but to those further and more distant musics of the spheres.