Archive for February, 2009
February 9, 2009 at 9:21 am
· Filed under CD, Concert Flutes, Flute Players, Irish flute, Martin Doyle Flutes, Musicians, Wooden Flutes, Wooden Head Joints ·Tagged Added, concert flute, debut solo flute album, Elizabeth Petcu, Just Me, mp3 samples, Music, new, Samples, simple system flute, wooden Irish flute
Just added to Martin Doyle Flutes: three music samples from Elizabeth Petcu’s debut solo flute album, Just Me.
Elizabeth Petcu is a good friend of Martin Doyle’s who lives in Bray, County Wicklow. They also constitute two thirds of the music trio Rune.
Former Principal Flute (25+ years) with the Radio Telefís Éireann Concert Orchestra, Elizabeth Petcu studied with Professor Doris Keogh at The Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. She has an honours music degree from Trinity College Dublin and an M.A. in Music Therapy from the University of Limerick. Just Me is a distillation of all these experiences.
The fourteen tracks that comprise Just Me were recorded at the acoustically exceptional Calary Church near Roundwood in County Wicklow and the album is a lovely interpretation of Elizabeth’s favourite repertoire.
Elizabeth recorded Just Me on a Muramatsu concert flute with a wooden headjoint and a keyless simple system wooden ‘Irish’ flute. Both the wooden headjoint and the Irish flute were made by Martin Doyle. The three tracks just added to Martin Doyle Flutes are those that Elizabeth recorded using the Martin Doyle simple system flute. They can be heard at the Elizabeth Petcu section of the Martin’s Flute Music page.
The two Telemann tracks are particularly worth noting as they are technically challenging yet Elizabeth performs them on a keyless simple system flute. Just six open holes with lots of ‘half-holing’ and cross fingering – quite an accomplishment! Throughout this album, Elizabeth Petcu exhibits her capacity as a mature flute player of great technical capacity that is coupled to a heart-felt passion and sensitivity for her selection.
Just Me is a delight and includes music by Debussy, Telemann, Bozza, Bach, Ibert, Honegger, Bates and Karg-Elert with a traditional Irish air as a fitting finale.
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February 6, 2009 at 1:08 am
· Filed under Martin Doyle Flutes, Recently Added, Translations, Updates, Website ·Tagged Added, Diarmuid Breathnach, homepage, Irish language version, Leagan Gaeilge, Martin Doyle Flutes, translation, update
Just added to Martin Doyle Flutes: a Irish version of Martin Doyle’s homepage.
The translation was very kindly furnished by the renowned Irish biographer and encyclopaedist Diarmuid Breathnach of County Wicklow, Ireland.
Born in 1930, Diarmuid was educated at University College Dublin and became a librarian in Kilkenny, then a sound archivist and chief librarian at RTÉ from 1974 to 1986. His major achievement is the compilation, with Máire Ní Mhurchú, of Beathaisnéis, a multi-volume dictionary of modern Gaelic culture. On May 17, 2002, the National University of Ireland conferred honarary degrees – The Degree of Doctor of Celtic Studies – upon Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Read more…
Our heart-felt gratitude goes to Diarmuid for his kind efforts with the Irish translation of the Martin Doyle’s homepage – thank you Diarmuid!
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February 3, 2009 at 9:27 pm
· Filed under Flute Players, Irish flute, Irish traditional music, Martin Doyle, Martin Doyle Flutes, Music, Musicians, Wooden Flutes ·Tagged Irish traditional music, Martin Doyle Flutes, Ronan Browne, Cran, Desi Wilkinson, video clips, Seán Corcoran, Erin Grá mo Chroi
Cran is an Irish traditional music group made up of three people who, as individuals, are each important figures in contemporary Irish culture.
Seán Corcoran (bouzouki and lead vocals) has had a long career as a solo singer before founding Cran with Desi Wilkinson, and is internationally renowned as a skilful interpretor of songs from the Irish tradition, both in English and Gaelic. Read more…
Desi Wilkinson (flutes & vocals) is one of the leading exponents of the traditional Irish flute (“the timber flute”) and a fine singer, to boot. Originally from Belfast, he was inspired to get involved in Irish music through the playing of Fermanagh fiddler, Tom Gunn, a near neighbour. It was from Tom that he learned his first tunes. Read more…
Ronan Browne (uilleann pipes, flutes, vocals) is widely regarded as one of the great virtuosos of the uilleann pipes, Ronan has carved out an international reputation both as concert performer and session musician. Ronan is the piper on the original recording of Riverdance and is also the original piper with the Afro Celt Sound System, appearing on their first two top-selling albums. Read more…
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