Flutist Karin Aurell is originally from Sweden, where she spent many years playing in the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, a professional orchestra on Sweden’s Baltic coast. She moved to Sackville NB in 2001, and has enjoyed life as a freelancing musician in the Maritimes ever since, combining chamber music performance, orchestra playing and teaching. Karin’s first solo recording, Nightingales for Katy, was released in 2005. Her second CD, with Trio Arkaède (with Isabelle Fournier, violin and Julien LeBlanc, piano) was released to critical acclaim in summer 2008. The trio’s second CD, Tour de France, was launched in 2014 and comprises music by French composers from the early part of the 20th century.
Nightingales for Katy was originally written in 1982 to celebrate the birth of flutist Stephen Pedersen’s daughter, the composition represents an attempt to tackle the same kinds of problems encountered by the Baroque masters, in that Gibson uses register shifts and rapid arpeggiations to create the illusion of more than one musical line. Energetic dance-like passages vie with serene cantabile moments in a musical universe that occasionally veers toward the frantic before reaching a final reconciliation.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
1. Syrinx
RICHARD GIBSON
2. Nightingales for Katy
J.S. BACH
3-6. Partita in A Minor for Flute alone
GILLES TREMBLAY
7. Envol – Alléluia pour flûte seule
JACQUES IBERT
8. Pièce pour flûte seule
SVEN-ERIK BÄCK
9-11. Sonata for Flute Solo
ARTHUR HONEGGER
12. Danse de la chèvre
G.P. TELEMANN
13-14. Fantasie #12 in g minor
