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Galway was born in North Belfast as one of two brothers. His father, who played the flute, was employed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard until the end of the Second World War and spent night-shifts cleaning buses after the war, while his mother, a pianist, was a winder in a flax-spinning mill.
The flutist James Galway first approached John Corigliano about writing a flute concerto for him in 1978. The composer was initially apprehensive about writing another concerto for a woodwind instrument, having recently completed his Oboe Concerto in 1975 and his Clarinet Concerto in 1977. Corigliano postponed committing himself to the project ...
James Galway Plays Khachaturian: James Galway, soloist; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Myung-whun Chung, conductor Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D Minor: Itzhak Perlman, soloist; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
The Concerto for Flute and Harp by Mozart which they performed together was to become the piece for which she is best known. She has recorded and performed it with James Galway and with her husband Christopher Hyde-Smith, among others. [3] In 1963 she premiered Sones en la Giralda on the BBC, a wedding present written for her by Joaquín Rodrigo.
The Concierto pastoral is a flute concerto by Joaquín Rodrigo.Rodrigo wrote the work during 1977–1978 on commission from James Galway, who had first encountered the composer's work in 1974 when he asked permission to transcribe the Fantasia para un Gentilhombre for flute.
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He is the most-published living composer of flute music [citation needed] with over 200 works in print. Flutist James Galway premiered his three-movement concerto Green Places at Ireland's Adair Festival and has also performed this work with the New Jersey Symphony.
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