Sleeping Winter by Peter McGarr
From rhythms and time signatures all the way to intervals and triads with everything in between
traditional and contemporary
It has to be heard to be believed
Today the three-movement work is one of the solo pieces that all flautists have to have played once it is truly regal music
Maxwell Davies, Peter : Strathclyde Concerto No. 6 flute and piano (Chester) *Heugel & C Sleeping Winter by Peter McGarrDescription: The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes, but also of violins and oboes; in addition, the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not, for instance, play in the slow movement), so that for much of the time the flute is playing against a mellow ensemble of clarinets, horns, bassoons and low strings. If this is, nevertheless, one of Davies's most open spirited pieces, that comes