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Spouse (s) 3rd wife, Jeanne, Lady Galway (née Cinnante) Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1][2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331: Rondo alla turca. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute, K. 620: Overture. George Frideric Handel – The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus. Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46: In the Hall of the Mountain King. Gabriel Fauré – Pavane.
A major venue for classical and other forms of music. Classical music of the United Kingdom is taken in this article to mean classical music in the sense elsewhere defined, of formally composed and written music of chamber, concert and church type as distinct from popular, traditional, or folk music. The term in this sense emerged in the early ...
William Bennett (flautist) William Ingham Brooke Bennett OBE (7 February 1936 – 11 May 2022) was a British flautist and teacher. He played in many English orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and as a soloist. He made more than 100 recordings, including chamber music with partners including George Malcolm, Osian Ellis, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Britten in 1968, by Hans Wild. Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ...
The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI.Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arturo Toscanini; of the Philharmonia's younger conductors, the most important to its development was Herbert von Karajan who ...
This is a list of flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known, and whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles. Young Flutist, or The Fifer by Édouard Manet (1866)
Delius. Brigg Fair, Dance Rhapsody No 2, Fennimore and Gerda Intermezzo, Florida Suite Daybreak and Dance, Irmelin Prelude, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Sleigh ride, Song before Sunrise, Summer Evening, Summer Night on the River. Dvořák. Legend in G minor, Symphony No 8. Goldmark.