Thursday, June 19, 2014

Leonardo Vinci: Sonata in D

René LeRoy
Today I offer some of the most delectable flute playing you shall ever hear, by the great French flutist René LeRoy (1898-1985), a student of Adolphe Hennebains at the Paris Conservatoire (he subsequently studied with Philippe Gaubert).  Here he plays a charming Baroque sonata by Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730), a Neapolitan composer of operas apparently unrelated to the great painter and inventor with whom he shared a name:

Leonardo Vinci: Sonata in D Major
René LeRoy, flute; Yella Pessl, harpsichord
Recorded February 22, 1939
Victor 18086, one 78-rpm record
Link (FLAC file, 30.58 MB)
Link (MP3 file, 18.91 MB)

I apologize in advance for the noisiness of this record - its previous owner must have shared my opinion of LeRoy's playing, for it is obviously a much-played copy.

UPDATE (July 26): Christopher Steward, a flutist and collector who maintains a wonderful page of early flute recordings, has very kindly sent me his own transfer from a much superior copy of Victor 18086, with permission to disseminate it, so I have substituted his transfer for mine in the links above.

5 comments:

  1. I'm glad to see that you rate Le Roy highly. The recording dates from 22 February 1939.
    Best wishes

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    1. Thanks for the info...I'll update the post with it.

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  2. I would be happy to send you a file dubbed from a better copy - you would have to tell me how to get it to you.

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    1. That would be most welcome! Your best bet would be to use one of the file sharing services such as filefactory; if you don't want to post the link publicly here, then you can send the link to my email address. I don't care to post that explicitly here but you can find instructions how to assemble it in my January 2013 post "Bye-Bye Mediafire." Thanks!

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  3. Thank you for

    SON.fl.bc<cemb D (fp1746: London 1939-02-22 r1941-late_summer) [8:05]
    - 1. Adagio [2:11]
    - 2. Allegro [1:58]
    - 3. Largo [1:26]
    - 4. Tranquillo [1:16]
    - 5. Allegro [1:14]


    I have wrote a litle cuesheet "cd (39) 8.cue" (i play it with foobar2000):

    REM GENRE Barock; fl.cemb
    REM DATE 1939-02
    PERFORMER "René LeRoy (fl); Yella Pessl (cemb)"
    TITLE "Sonata in D"
    FILE "18086 Vinci Flute Sonata in D.flac" WAVE
    TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "SON.fl.bc<cemb D (fp1746: London 1939-02-22 r1941-late_summer) - 1. Adagio"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
    TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE " - 2. Allegro"
    INDEX 01 02:11:15
    TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE " - 3. Largo"
    INDEX 01 04:09:30
    TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE " - 4. Tranquillo"
    INDEX 01 05:35:20
    TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE " - 5. Allegro"
    INDEX 01 06:51:45

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