Can anyone recommend any recordings of Flute or Whistle with absolutley no accopaniment on them? no bodhrans,piano,guitar just pure whistle or flute sound.
Kitty xxxxxxx
Brid O’Donohue
I can’t think of anything else offhand where the entire CD’s unaccompanied. Josie McDermott’s is close.
Wooden Flute Obsession is the closest. There are about three issues. Check the search category for addresses and more info.
The CD that comes with June McCormack’s flute tutorial is unaccompanied. She playes each tune slowly and again up to speed. Great playing and wonderful for how easy it is to hear every nuance. Worth the price alone, and you get the book too.
I think John Skelton’s “A few tunes” and " A few More Tunes" are unaccompanied. And both have well more than a few tunes on each CD.
Is “Double Barrelled” as well? I don’t remember and can’t find my copy at the moment. Skelton’s “one at a time” is barely accompanied on some tunes, and not at all on others.
John Creaven’s “The Story So far” is a lovely flute recording that is, as I recall, completely unaccompanied.
Loren
Denis Cahill plays back up on some tracks of that one Loren.
www.bridodonohue.com highly recommended
didn’t Sean Ryan do one on whistle years ago w/o accompaniment?
There are quite a few tracks on Matt Molloy’s “black album” w/o anything but him playing.
I believe Joe Burke’s recording, Tailor’s Choice, is also w/o backing, the flute tracks anyway.
dm
Er, well, two to be exact: The Gold Ring and The Humours of Ballyloughlin. There’s guitar and bouzouki on all the other tracks (although in a few cases he plays one tune before the accompaniment comes in).
Really John Creaven’s album comes close to a totally unaccompanied solo flute album – there are a five tracks with subtle bouzouki accompaniment by Denis Cahill, but the other 10 are unaccompanied. And it’s a lovely album, not as widely known as it should be.
I just got Sean Ryan’s “Minstrel’s Fancy”. It has accompaniment, but it’s very much in the background. The whistle (all Susato, I think) is very predominant and easy to make out. Great stuff!
Thanks for the correction Peter, don’t want to steer the original poster wrong.
So much for my recollection, these senior moments are coming more and more often…
Loren
John Wynne’s With every breath has some unaccompanied pieces, nicely played. The few tracks with bodhran/guitar have those instruments modestly at the background.
What I especially like about that album is that JW not only demonstrates all the ornamentations/articulations but he’s a master in melodic variation as well.
Bart
Mike Rafferty, Speed 78 has several unaccompanied tracks too!
One of my favorites, An Gaoth Aduaidh is totally unaccompanied.
The Flute Players of Roscommon: Volume 1 has no accompaniment either.
Both are available from Ossian USA.
Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts have a CD entitled, ‘tin whistles’ - all tracks are solo or duets with only 2 tracks of the 16 having bodhran playing along. Claddagh Records - Atlantic in the US.