unaccompanied Flute or Whistle recordings????

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:07 pm

Can anyone recommend any recordings of Flute or Whistle with absolutley no accopaniment on them? no bodhrans,piano,guitar just pure whistle or flute sound.
Kitty xxxxxxx

monkey587 · Post by **monkey587** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:40 pm

Kitty wrote:Can anyone recommend any recordings of Flute or Whistle with absolutley no accopaniment on them? no bodhrans,piano,guitar just pure whistle or flute sound.
Kitty xxxxxxx

Brid O'Donohue

I can't think of anything else offhand where the entire CD's unaccompanied. Josie McDermott's is close.

BillG · Post by **BillG** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:46 pm

Wooden Flute Obsession is the closest. There are about three issues. Check the search category for addresses and more info.

scooter587 · Post by **scooter587** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:59 pm

The CD that comes with June McCormack's flute tutorial is unaccompanied. She playes each tune slowly and again up to speed. Great playing and wonderful for how easy it is to hear every nuance. Worth the price alone, and you get the book too.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:08 pm

I think John Skelton's "A few tunes" and " A few More Tunes" are unaccompanied. And both have well more than a few tunes on each CD.

Is "Double Barrelled" as well? I don't remember and can't find my copy at the moment. Skelton's "one at a time" is barely accompanied on some tunes, and not at all on others.

John Creaven's "The Story So far" is a lovely flute recording that is, as I recall, completely unaccompanied.

Loren

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:23 pm

Loren wrote:
John Creaven's "The Story So far" is a lovely flute recording that is, as I recall, completely unaccompanied.

Loren

Denis Cahill plays back up on some tracks of that one Loren.

www.bridodonohue.com highly recommended

RudallRose · Post by **RudallRose** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:45 pm

didn't Sean Ryan do one on whistle years ago w/o accompaniment?

There are quite a few tracks on Matt Molloy's "black album" w/o anything but him playing.

I believe Joe Burke's recording, Tailor's Choice, is also w/o backing, the flute tracks anyway.

dm

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:03 pm

David Migoya wrote:There are quite a few tracks on Matt Molloy's "black album" w/o anything but him playing.

Er, well, two to be exact: The Gold Ring and The Humours of Ballyloughlin. There's guitar and bouzouki on all the other tracks (although in a few cases he plays one tune before the accompaniment comes in).

Really John Creaven's album comes close to a totally unaccompanied solo flute album -- there are a five tracks with subtle bouzouki accompaniment by Denis Cahill, but the other 10 are unaccompanied. And it's a lovely album, not as widely known as it should be.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:07 pm

I just got Sean Ryan's "Minstrel's Fancy". It has accompaniment, but it's very much in the background. The whistle (all Susato, I think) is very predominant and easy to make out. Great stuff!

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:26 pm

Peter Laban wrote:
Loren wrote:
John Creaven's "The Story So far" is a lovely flute recording that is, as I recall, completely unaccompanied.

Loren
Denis Cahill plays back up on some tracks of that one Loren.

Thanks for the correction Peter, don't want to steer the original poster wrong.

So much for my recollection, these senior moments are coming more and more often......

Loren

Bart Wijnen · Post by **Bart Wijnen** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:43 pm

John Wynne's With every breath has some unaccompanied pieces, nicely played. The few tracks with bodhran/guitar have those instruments modestly at the background.

What I especially like about that album is that JW not only demonstrates all the ornamentations/articulations but he's a master in melodic variation as well.

Bart

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:14 pm

Mike Rafferty, Speed 78 has several unaccompanied tracks too!

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:20 am

One of my favorites, An Gaoth Aduaidh is totally unaccompanied.

The Flute Players of Roscommon: Volume 1 has no accompaniment either.

Both are available from Ossian USA.

Ronk · Post by **Ronk** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:33 am

Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts have a CD entitled, 'tin whistles' - all tracks are solo or duets with only 2 tracks of the 16 having bodhran playing along. Claddagh Records - Atlantic in the US.

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