George Barrett (flute) ; Lucy Vincent
(oboe); Arthur Roberts (pianoforte)
GEOFFREY DAMS (tenor)
(From Birmingham)
The two interlinked French Folk
Melodies were originally an Intermezzo in Dame Ethel Smyth 's One-Act Opera,
Entenie Cordiale, the subject of which isan absurd incident in a British Base i Camp during the Great War.
The first of the two melodies is a 3urgundian vintage song : the beautifu second tune, in the minor is Breton and full of characteristic Breton melancholy. Johann Quantz , an accomplished flute player and prolific composer for that instrument, is better known to fame as the man who taught the King of Prussia,
Frederick the Great, how to play the flute. During his years of service as 'Kammermusicus' at the Prussian Court he wrote not fewer than 300 nute conceitos and 200 other pieces. Out of all these manuscripts only a handful have passed into print. Quantz lived from 1697 to 1773.