Can we also say something about how beautifully Pinnock and the orchestra accompany Pahud? Great tempi, as many people take the famous B section too slowly. Here it had the right elegance, flow, and was still fluid and flexible. Gluck is about the reform style and simplicity but frequently musicians do Orfeo so slowly it's like watching paint dry. This flute solo is from the Elysee' (Elysium) section of the opera, so it's about nature, beauty, happiness, sun and heaven...it's not a funeral dirge. The B section was added after the original 1762 Vienna version to enlarge the Elysium scene, and is a part of a ballet.
I prefer in the middle part Rampal. Pahud has a too dark sound according to my taste...he looks to play a wooden flute. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bQy2qAl729M.html
Si no te gusta, puedes ir a escucharla a otro lado. Ten en cuenta que la grabación no es profesional, así que no esperes que se escuche de manera decente.
