Hotteterre: Pieces pour la Flute Traversiere / Barthold Kuijken etc.

This is a collection of Jacques-Martin Hotteterre Le Romain’s flute works, a gateway for traverso players. I have a variety of analog and CD recordings of Hotteterre’s flute works, but the first one is the Seon recording, which features Barthold Kuijken’s traverso on Frans Brüggen’s recorder and Bruce Haynes’ oboe. At the beginning of each suite, Musette’s solo pieces, unaccompanied flute pieces, and Lambert’s Airs de Cour are interspersed to create a rich variety. The next recording was made by the Kuijken brothers (Bart and Wieland) and Robert Kohnen. It contains all the pieces for flute and bass. The third is a Naxos recording by Philippe Alain Dupre and others. This group includes a theorbo as a basso continuo. The fourth CD I would like to mention is Hotteterre’s piece in Masahiro Arita’s “Flute Music Of The Grand Siecle”. This performance also uses theorbo, and the performer is Yasunori Imamura. #baroque #hotteterre #片山俊幸