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Michael Elphinstone

Michael Elphinstone portrait

SEBASTIAN BODINUS
Six sonatas (Flute, violin · basso continuo)

JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Six trio sonatas, volume 1 (Op. 18/1-3) (Two violins · basso continuo)
Six trio sonatas, volume 2 (Op. 18/4-6) (Two violins · basso continuo)
Six trio sonatas, volume 1 (Op. 41/1-3) (Flute · violin · basso continuo)
Six trio sonatas, volume 2 (Op. 41/4-6) (Flute · violin · basso continuo)
Six trio sonatas, volume 1 (Op. 28/1-3) (Two oboes · basso continuo)
Six trio sonatas, volume 2 (Op. 28/4-6) (Two oboes · basso continuo)
Quinque sur l’octave (Four violins · basso continuo)
Six Quartet Sonatas,Op. 34 Vol. 1 (Three violins · basso continuo)
Six Quartet Sonatas,Op. 34 Vol. 2 (Three violins · basso continuo)
Four Trio Sonatas,Op. 78 (Two flutes · basso continuo)
Six concertos,Op. 21, volume 1 (Nos. 1–3) (Flute, violin, ripieno · basso continuo)
Six concertos,Op. 21, volume 2 (Nos. 4–6) (Flute, violin, ripieno · basso continuo)
Six concertos,Op. 38 (Two Flutes)
Six sonatas,Op. 20, volume 1 (Violin · basso continuo)
Six sonatas,Op. 20, volume 2 (Violin · basso continuo)
Six sonatas,Op. 47(Two flutes)
Six sonatas,Op. 29(Two oboes)
Six sonatas,Op. 71 (Two violins)


GIUSEPPE CAMBINI
Six trio concertans, volume 1 (Trios 1-3) (Flute · oboe · bassoon)
Six trio concertans, volume 2 (Trios 4-6) (Flute · oboe · bassoon)

FRANÇOIS DEVIENNE
Six Duo concertantes (Flute · Viola)

LOUIS DROUËT
Quartet for flute and strings (Flute · violin · viola · violoncello)

CARL HEINRICH GRAUN
Trio sonata Op. 1/4 (Two flutes · basso continuo)

IGNAZ PLEYEL
Three quintets, Op. 18 (Flute · oboe · violin · viola · violoncello/bass)

ALESSANDRO ROLLA
Quartet No. 1 & 2 (Flute · violin · viola · violoncello)
Quartet No. 3 & 4 (Flute · violin · viola · violoncello)
Quartet No. 5 & 6 (Flute · violin · viola · violoncello)
Six duets (Flute · violin)
Oboe quartet in C major (Oboe · violin · viola · violoncello)
Two flute quartets, Op. 2 (Flute · violin · viola · violoncello)
Concertino a tre (Viola · violoncello · bassoon)

JOHANN ADOLPH SCHEIBE
Three flute sonatas (Flute · keyboard)


Australian musician and musicologist Michael Elphinstone studied modern flute with Zdenek Bruderhans at the Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide) and early flute with Lisa Beznosiuk and Neil McLaren at the Royal College of Music (London). He taught flute at the Department of Music of the University of New England (Armidale, New South Wales) before going to Italy as the recipient of an Italian Government Scholarship to undertake research into the early works of Giacomo Puccini.

He has performed both as a soloist and as a member of various chamber orchestras and ensembles in Australia, Italy and England. As a musicologist, he was formerly secretary of the Istituto di Studi Pucciniani (Milan) for which institution he wrote prolifically-his output includes various essays published in the Institute's house journal, Quaderni Pucciniani, and contributions to The Puccini Companion (ed. William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini), W. W. Norton and Company (New York), 1994.

He has moreover carried out extensive biographical research into early twentieth-century Australian musicians; his biography of soprano Florence Austral, When Austral Sang (written together with Wayne Hancock) was released in May 2005 to great critical acclaim. His writings have been published in Italy, Australia and the United States. He is particularly interested in eighteenth-century chamber music, and has edited various works by Alessandro Rolla, Giuseppe Cambini, Johann Adolph Schiebe and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier for Edition HH. He now resides in Pavia, Italy.

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