Jean Pierre Rampal

[Roy Bland]

I noticed that there is no topic dedicated to this great artist. Among his transcriptions, which are my favorites, I remember the Khachaturian Concerto (preferring it  more than original) and the Japanese Melodies for Flute and Harp, both deservedly hugely successful. I take this opportunity to point out his website:
it seems particularly interesting a lot of unknown composer

http://www.jprampal.com/boutique/premiers-horizons/

[pjme]

Rampal recorded some interesting works for ERATO. 
Antoine Tisné  remains an unknown composer. Apart from a few works for organ and saxophone, almost nothing has received a recent recording/performance. I remember hearing some works on FRance Musique, long time ago:

From Billaudot:

"To assimilate its codes better (en perhaps also to master a natural expressionism) he began by subjecting his language to the austere rules of serialism. He abandoned it a decade ago, confident in the generosity of a melodic inspiration which could have been restricted by systematic censorship.
But the essential question is always that of creation. In music, and in art in general, it is a replica on a human scale of the mysterious working of the universe.
Antoine Tisné's music is full of swirling momentum, colorful hazes and the radiance of space, particularly the pieces in which he expresses his idea of the cosmos : Cosmogonies (1967), Sidérales (1970), Pulsars éclatés (1971) and Stellae Borealis (1974). They reflect a metaphysical mind fascinated by scientific discoveries, made fertile by meditation and released, with its torments and its beliefs, by musical creation."

[Mookalafalas]

He's wonderful and produces good disks with amazing consistency. The Erato is all worthwhile, and his later, more mainstream box is also full of delights.

To me, even the crossover stuff is charming--unlike the crossover stuff of the big Irishman , who shall remain nameless... 

[pjme]

One of my very favorite Jolivet works: Suite en concert for Flute & 4 percussionists.

Belgian (Flemish) composer August Verbesselt (1919-2012) wrote a flute concerto that was performed by Rampal:

"A work central to the so-called first period is the Concerto for Flute, Two Percussionists, and Orchestra from 1952. In this concerto, modeled on Bartók, Verbesselt blends classical techniques such as the three-movement concerto form, sonata form, and lied form with an atonal and bitonal musical language. The two percussionists do not participate in the lyrical second movement, but in the outer movements engage in a virtuoso rhythmic and melodic dialogue with the flautist. This concerto enjoyed some international fame: it was published by the French publisher Billaudot at the suggestion of the renowned French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, who discovered the work in 1966 while touring in Antwerp."
Rampal performed the work in 1968, in Brussels (RTBF). That recording sleeps in the archives.

https://matrix-new-music.be/nl/publicaties/componistenfiches/verbesselt-august/

Verbesselts clarinet concerto is a good introduction to this composer.