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...JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 44, the most famous French flutist of the age, this week had a concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
...AURELE NICOLET, 40, Rampal's leading rival, last week started a ten-concert tour of Israel. A slender, clear-eyed man whose art is often touched with a quality of rapture, Nicolet is a poet of the flute who may well become its greatest virtuoso. While Rampal stands always a little aside from the piece he is playing, Nicolet knows how to yield to the music and enter more deeply into its being. Rampal is a magnificent mannerist, Nicolet the profounder stylist...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: SIX SONATAS FOR FLUTE AND HARPSICHORD (Nonesuch). In bringing back the solo flute, the baroque revival has also headlined a brilliant French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, who seems to have enough breath to tackle the entire 18th century output for his instrument. Turning from J. S. Bach and Mozart, Rampal has recently recorded music by Telemann, Pergolesi and others, as well as these melodic and graceful entertainments by Bach fils, accompanist for that royal flutist, Frederick the Great...
Prof. Bowen, of Harvard, is the only representative of American upon the committee to erect a statue to the memory of Schopenhuer. The committee includes such eminent men as Ernest Renan, Max Muller of Oxford, Brahmane Ragot, Rampal Sing, and Rudolf Von Thering the celebrated Romanist of Gottingen...