Haraldsdottir, Ashildur - Undine
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Ashildur Haraldsdottir - Flute
Love Derwinger - Piano
It is interesting to speculate as to why there are so many records with titles like The Romantic Flute. One answer is that, during the eighteenth century, the flute was in vogue. Even Frederick the great, emperor of Russia, was a flautist, which raised the status of the instrument greatly. Although it has had periods of dwindling popularity since, today the flute is very much in fashion again. Actually, however, the flute has not been mainly romantic, and the nineteenth century repertoire for solo flute is quite limited. Two longer compositions tend to figure on any record aiming to reflect the period: Franz Schubert's Trockene Blumen variations, the only work of his large ouvre to feature the flute as a solo instrument, and Carl Reinecke's Undine Sonata for flute and piano.
Ashildur Haraldsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1965. She started to playing the flute at the age of nine and graduated from the Reykjavik Conservatorie when she was seventeen. She continuied her musical training in the USA, first at the New England Conservatorie and finally at internationally renowned Juilliard School of Music from where she graduated in 1988. Her teacher was Samuel Baron. She then continued her studies with Thomas Nyfenegger and Alain Marion. A Promoter of new Music, Ashildur has premiered many new works written specially for her, itroducing new Iceland music in Sweden and in the USA. Ashildur is the first prize winner of various competitions, has toured extensively as a soloist in America, Mexico, England, Iceland and Sweden, and has frequently appeared on radio and television.
Love Derwinger was born in Nörrköping, Sweden, in August 1966. His musical abilities were discovered early. At 9 years of age, the extraordinary facility with which he played the piano, set the context of his future career. At 17, Derwinger played Listz's second piano concerto with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. In 1987, performed his final student concert: Brahm's first piano concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphonics. Since then, Derwinger has given concerts as a soloist as well as performed chamber music together with musicians such as Nicolai Gedda, Christian Lindberg, Manuela Wisler and Roland Pöntinen.