Mouquet-La Flute De Pan, 1st mvt, James Galway

[YeahhhThatsMeee]

Is he only moving one finger when he trills?

[smurfy721]

i'm playing this for Solo & Ensemble next month!!! can't wait :)

[marchingbandswag]

So beautiful :) Never been able to play it at this speed, and I personally like it better slow... but oh my God, this is GORGEOUS!

[DRBiblicalMD]

This is my all time favorite movement, and I adore playing it as much as I love this wonderful recording. :)

[likeOMG8D]

i'm pretty sure i'm at least half of these views..just from the past 2 weeks.

[Crazy95Mexican]

beautiful :)

[nymphetamine622]

Such an amazing sound!!! It's a beautiful peice, all three movements are beautiful. I learned this years ago , but still love playing it!

[cbilling100]

What a sound....... it's liquid gold!!!

[PineappleJosie]

I love this piece I'm glad I didn't listen to this before I played it in my flute competition though... man compared to this I sounded like a beginner..

[AngelOFfallenSTAR]

Wow I didn't know youtube now shows MY views on this video...

[MrKwest28]

He's so good, it's stupid.

[lwmelissa]

@ashleyelizabeth1030: whats an A? O_O im talking about 1-2, 3-4, 5-6.

[kChristyKIM]

HIS TOOOONE! :o is simply the best in the world..

[27squirrel]

I love that i have a red and gold flute :)

[lwmelissa]

what grade level is this piece? please and thank you!

[ashleyelizabeth1030]

@lwmelissa, it's an A.

[Lisnageeragh]

@lwmelissa About grade VIII  ( Associated Boards London)

[underthestarryclouds]

@lwmelissa lols, its ameb grade 7, if done with movement two (pan and the birds) :)

[carasianviolin]

@underthestarryclouds I played this for grade 8 ABRSM a few years ago :)

[underthestarryclouds]

@carasianviolin ;A; you lucky person, i did this for grade seven ><

[9abcdefgz]

Most beautiful soothing music. Just like winter is over, and now the skies are blue, sunshin, , birds singing and all the world is happy and new!

Thank you from all my heart.

Bless you.

[LadyBlueFeather]

so lovely

[fluting4ever]

his runs are so even! 111 likes and 0 dislikes! Awesome :)

[leonelajmp]

una exquisita pieza !!! y excelente interpretación del maestro U.U (Y)

[jglsd1]

2:23-oh my god! So beautiful.

[jazzflutist]

Sounds a little fast for my liking, but brilliantly played. (I could be wrong - I don't know this piece that well).

[sarahhkins]

one of my favorite pieces for flute

[nanaflute4ever]

Excellent, I'm playing it now, what an amazing piece, especially when Sir James Galway plays it! :)

[jaxonosu]

His tone is incredible... but I have to say I occasionally wish he didn't play with the rhythms/tempo as much as he does within phrases, especially playing with triplets. They lose their feel sometimes. :\

[4gnostic]

@jaxonosu

The funny thing is: Every Flutists knows a lot about Galways mistakes and sometimes "simple interpretations". But in my opinion, nobody ever got near to the range of Galway. :-)

[MahoRoulete]

@4gnostic Funny, in flute lessons today i told my flute teacher about james galway and she laughed and said YES! then followed up with "Its funny how we are laughing about his misake when he is incomparable to us" There is something musically that we dont prefer, but his technique and tone is incomparable to anyone

[may4226]

@4gnostic

it should not be "every flutists", at least i feel the same way as you =P

[4gnostic]

@may4226 Yeah sorry for my "bad simple english". Got a lot of complaints from haters for my comment :-P

[blablatruc70]

Fantastic!

[yuki9763]

simply delightful

[urs89]

Yes, something is missing in his interpretation. But I like this peice sooooo much! :)))

[Heatherchica2525]

wow! ese tipo es increíble! Me encantó su interpretación! su sonido es increíble! lo vi en vivo y preformas esta casi me desmayé era tan increíble! No puedo creer que Dios le dio ese talento increíble! Sir James Galway está indescriptible!

[ChiarettaScanu]

Wooow.. Is Fantastic.. *_*

[paganviola]

I don't get your feelings-being down on Galway's interpretation. He's a brilliant musician with impeccable taste and range of expression in the same class as Rostrapovich, Stern, Horowitz etc.

[mgcrules]

does anyone know when this piece was written??

[nanaflute4ever]

@mgcrules Yes, it was written in 1906 for flute and orchestra, but the arrangement for flute and piano is more known and more common! :)

[jenniferwenchi]

<3 it..... i wanto play it

[BubbleBuddyRox]

I love his vibrato!!!!!!!!!!!

[Supagirly]

Wow, he plays to perfection!

I wish I could get his tone, its So good!

And the neatness of the fingers :O

[BritishLass3182]

wow...!! i played this as my solo for solo and ensemble and i had so much fun with it. this was the exact peice i played, tounging and everything so i am quite confussed at why some of you are saying its a weird interpretation. and to those guys arguing about the flute.. does it really matter? i mean sure its gold and all but its a flute and he's james galway so he'd sound great on a crappy flute too. and no i've only played for three years and its fine to play :)

[martinillo89]

OMG...beautifull! i have to play it in my music school! i will upload the video!

[Mrseeweeflute]

@martinillo89

how can you upload this video?

[Fionnaprincess101]

im learning this right now:)

[airmage112]

The way Sir James Galway shapes this piece really lives up to the movement's name. I always see a happy shepherd boy in on the Matterhorn. Ha-ha.

[SexyNerd4u]

lmao, everybody is a critic.

This version was fantastic and it's nice to hear a different spin on such well known pieces like this one.

And Galway's tone is beast. It just mystifies me how he can get such a deep rich tone in his lower range and then have such sweetness in the upper range.

[solitarefreak]

i agree TOTALLY.

i was completely fasinated by how deep dark and rich his tone was on the lower passages, still amazed actually.

and i also love his version of this piece. i wasnt feelin it at first but when i kept listenin i found myself swayin and smilin to it

[CiiN37]

its normal that a person ho has 3 year. o a bit more.. play this? or its really behind?

[zandar1515]

I like his playing, but the thing that anoys me is the super long tenutos that he puts randomly all over the piece!

[flutejory]

he plays on a 20K gold nagahara flute with 14K rose gold keys, inline G. so you know :)

[mc526]

Except on this recital he is playing a Muramatsu. On some of the videos, this one and Prokofiev, you can see the Muramatsu engraving on the barrel of the flute.

[flutejory]

false, but good try. He is playing a 20K gold Nagahara; watch his videos on his website, and look at the Nagahara site; the 20K gold was made special for him. IDK about you, but if something was special made for me, in 20K, I'd play it. Especially if I bought one flute and 3 headjoints in it. lol

[mc526]

Look at the engraving on the barrel 4 minutes into the first movement of the prokofiev sonata, and in many other shots of this recital. It's a Muramatsu. He still plays both. When I had a lesson with him in 2008, he had both and he was playing a Muramatsu with a Lafin head that day. I know, he handed it to me and let me play it while he blew on my flute pads. If you can't recognize the engraving on the flute he's playing in these videos, you must not be familiar with with either brand of flute.

[Chuatola]

omg what flute he use

[juneroses]

wow umm I didn't like Galway's interpretation at all. the ending was fantastic though.

[justin10292000]

juneroses...what didn't you like? Please be very specific, because I am unfamiliar with the piece, and just heard it for the first time just now...It sounds wonderful to me.

[juneroses]

I'm not criticizing the piece. It's lovely and I've played it myself. I'm saying I don't like the way Galway INTERPRETTED it. For me, I felt the rhythm was too flux and that he was playing the triplets too fast and leaning on the downbeat on the triplets and some of the articulations just sounded strange to my ears. But this is all opinion :)

[theanswer00]

agree... it's beautiful, but when you look at the score you see that's completely different

[GinnyFlautist]

you're right! I played that piece and it's different in my imagination like white and black!

[Quickfire412]

at times i don't like it either so i do agree

[freakyretriever]

plz tell me there is a mic sumwhere coz he is amazing...

[cait93]

i love this peice so much, even more when james gslway plays it :)