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James Galway vinyl records

16 albums with 221 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

James Galway OBE. Irish virtuoso flute player and teacher from Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Born December 8, 1939. He studied at the , then at , and completed his studies at . Following his studies, Galway pursued a career as an orchestral flautist, performing first in the United Kingdom with the (second flute), the Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (piccolo player) before being appointed principal flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra (1966-1967) and then of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1969 Galway won the post of principal flautist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, in which he played until he embarked on a solo career in 1975.