http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7QTyUaH2OE&feature=related

this is the 2nd movement. I can believe I found this video of him playing this, since it was originaly written for him. Its great!!! Poulenc it great at the piano too!!

Nice find!
Very nice find. ;-)

Pulling out at the headjoint has been for years the choice of many soloists.

If done correctly it does not affect the rest of the scale.

For years, there were no b foot flutes available and soloists had to make due.

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The use of vibrato here seems to be to cover terrible breathing. Really boring performance. Why can't wind players from back then compete with their string/piano/voice counterparts?

I was hoping for a lot more.

there were b-foot flutes back then, just check the Dayton C Miller collection at the Smithsonian, they are just not so popular, especially earlier on, and to some extant, still in europe...

Rampal played beautifully when in his prime, rarely will we see such an artist again..look for his vintage recordings on itunes and amazon, they are a real treat..

anyway, Rampal didn't play the flute, he used it to express himself..

Micron, explain to us about those extenders for low B I see some using...I agree with you, I have not heard of that, one just substitutes a note other than low B to fit into the harmony of the piece

thats prob a true story, but I also know he had a bfoot sent to him by Haynes to record something, then sent it back when the recording was completed...

i have heard about that plastic tubing trick before, great idea, especially for those of us who run across a low b once every 5 years

I told you losers and you didn't listen to me. Then you voted down my entry.

A, B, C, D, E and F you.

Are you guys always this brainless and closed-minded or is this something that just happened spontaneously?

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Oh, and it was a very mediocre performance. Don't you guys listen to anything but flute? This is garbage compared to the most so-so performance of Vengerov or Heifetz.

I guess the flute really is an inferior instrument, or maybe just lame-brain people are drawn to the flute.