The Nightingale and the Butterfly

Virtuoso playing and scholarly research come together in this disc of French Baroque works...Thorby's eclectic experience in Baroque, jazz and folk music is everywhere apparent in these performances,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2010
Catalogue No: CKD341
Label: Linn
Length: 76 minutes

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Louis Caix d'Hervelois: Deuxième suite en sol majeur in G Major

Work length13:51

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Prelude. Tendrement

Track length1:34

II. Allemande

Track length2:21

III. Musette

Track length1:33

IV. Papillon. Vite

Track length1:39

V. La Lionoise. Gravement

Track length2:36

VI. La Fanatique. Vivement

Track length0:49

VII. Air tendre

Track length3:19

Visée: Passacaille

Work length2:44

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

Anne-Danican Philidor: Sonate pour la flûte à bec en ré mineur in D Minor

Work length8:56

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Lentement

Track length2:43

II. Fugue I

Track length1:22

III. Courante

Track length1:37

IV. Les notes élgales et détachez

Track length1:21

V. Fugue II

Track length1:53

Dieupart: Suite No. 1 en la majeur pour une flûte de voix in A Major

Work length16:28

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Ouverture

Track length5:38

II. Allemande

Track length3:26

III. Courante

Track length1:30

IV. Sarabande

Track length2:20

V. Gavotte

Track length0:42

VI. Menuet

Track length0:57

VII. Gigue

Track length1:55

Visée: Suite en ré mineur in D Minor

Work length11:15

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length1:33

II. Ouverture de la Grotte de Versailles

Track length2:04

III. Courante

Track length1:51

IV. Sarabande

Track length3:15

V. Gigue

Track length1:01

VI. Contredanse

Track length1:31

Couperin, F: Le rossignol-en-amour (from Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 14ème in D major)

Work length3:24

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Lentement, et très tendrement, quoy que mesuré (Troisième Livre de pièces de clavecin Quatorzième Ordre)

Track length3:24

Dieupart: Suite No. 6 en fa mineur pour une flûte de quatre in F Minor

Work length14:11

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

I. Ouverture

Track length4:24

II. Allemande

Track length2:36

III. Courante

Track length1:20

IV. Sarabande

Track length2:36

V. Gavotte

Track length0:45

VI. Menuet

Track length1:03

VII. Gigue

Track length1:27

Couperin, F: Le rossignol vainqueur très

Work length1:59

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

Couperin, F: Double du Rossignol

Work length3:33

Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny
Recorded: 22-24 March 2009
Recording Venue: The National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom

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"Pamela Thorby's sensual recorder playing, complete with improvised flourishes and infinitely flexible dynamic shadings, is out of the top drawer." Music Week

"A wonderful artist at her very best: relaxed, stylish, unpredictable and distinctive of tone." Independent on Sunday

Following her successful collaborations with Richard Egarr and Andrew Lawrence-King world-famous recorder player Pamela Thorby teams up with renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny for her fourth solo album on Linn, ‘The Nightingale and the Butterfly’, a sparkling exploration of French Baroque music.

‘The Nightingale and the Butterfly’ presents a fine example of Pamela Thorby’s award-winning trademark sound: soaring and graceful melodies played impeccably.

Elizabeth Kenny weaves the lute melodies seamlessly amongst Pamela’s recorders – the two players complementing each other effortlessly.

Thorby and Kenny, both specialists in Baroque repertoire, give a unique interpretation of these appealing works whilst uncovering the beauty of some lesser-known gems.

Pamela Thorby has established herself as one of the world’s leading recorder players. She is most regularly heard on Karl Jenkins’ fabulous Adiemus recordings making her possibly one of the most listened to recorder players in the world.

Pamela was a founding member of the multi award-winning Palladian Ensemble achieving international success with ten critically acclaimed albums.

Pamela has appeared many times as a soloist at major UK festivals and venues including Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.

Elizabeth Kenny, one of the UK’s foremost lute players, performs regularly with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort and Les Art Florissants.

Reviews

December 2010

Virtuoso playing and scholarly research come together in this disc of French Baroque works...Thorby's eclectic experience in Baroque, jazz and folk music is everywhere apparent in these performances, with combination of technical precision and improvisatory flair...a disc full of delights and surprises

Awards Issue 2010

This is very much a duo recital. Kenny provides delightful theorbo solos by the 17th-century virtuoso Robert de Visée as well as enchanting accompaniments to Thorby's recorder-playing...[Thorby] produces a consistently bright, remarkably unmannered tone

January 2011

Kenny provides Thorby with a firm yet subtly nuanced harmonic and rhythmic support, her clean attack on each leading note balancing the louder sound of the recorder. Thorby plays with her customary vigour and agility, with generous and judiciously applied ornamentation.

27th June 2010

Pamela Thorby's soft, sweet, natural tone is ideally suited to the whimsical delicacies of d'Hervelois, Philidor and Dieupart...The birds and butterflies of French Baroque music are artful accomplices to Eros and Morpheus, and genial companions for summer evenings.

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