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The title is a mystery; but the musical lines are not. There is a certain ethereal trudge; as light footsteps in sand; in this floating; rhythmic descriptive piece. A brief work; Three Nuns in the Des...

Originally Sonata in D for guitar & flute, this arrangement is for 3 flutes & alto. Two separate and simultaneous conversations make this bubbly piece fun to play.

Accept the Inevitable Consciously is in two movements. The first movement is entirely based on one persistent melody, which permeates all the material in this movement. We accept it as an inevitable f...

While Franz Liszt is best known for virtuoso piano music and turbulent tone poems; his later compositions are full of serene beauty; most notably the three volumes titled 'Years of Pilgrimage' (Annees...

Flute & Piano Works by Sigfrid Karg-Elert-, Leonarda LE335. Douglas Worthen, flute & Janice Weber, piano. 'These works originated from the urgent need of forming a connecting link between the unusuall...

This is a lyrical, impressionistic piece in Gb major. More difficult than his Madrigal, this lesser-known piece by Gaubert should be a part of every flutist's repertoire.

Water Variations was written in Lampedusa, a very little island between Sicily and Tunisia. The very fluid character of the melody comes from the feeling that you would have living inside the sea, wit...

Laura Barron, in collaboration with pianist, Jeffrey Sykes, introduces her new CD, Echoes of a Blue Planet. This eclectic recording features classical flute and piano compositions inspired by various...

This piece grew from ideas found in Webern and Schoenberg but became a terse dialogue of a more contemporary nature. The first movement is a study in starkness, the second a violently impassioned outb...

Potpourri (c. 18101s) features the airs Life Let Us Cherish, Auld Robin Gray, and La Matilda. Incomplete info on first performance, D. C. Jacobsen suggests a 2nd one was written.

The Twelve Fantasias (c. 1821) feature Mozart's La ci darem la mano, the Scottish air Roslin Castle, and Nicholson's own Bollero. Note: These salon pieces from the pen of Charles Nicholson, England's...

The First Concertino (c. 1826) features the French airs Portrait charmant, C'est l'amour and Mayseder's Le Petit Tambour. The Second Concertino (c. 1826) features the Italian airs Maid of Lodi and Car...

Originally entitled Capriccio, this is one of several pieces for flute and piano by Giulio Briccialdi. It is Romantic in nature and falls into that category of music referred to as show pieces. The pi...

The title Butterfly was chosen not only for its obvious associations and imagery, but also because the composition was created by a process of transformation and metamorphosis. This timed piece was wr...

The Nashua Flute Choir Celebrates its 20th Anniversary. This CD features Schocker's Views from Falls House*, Hoover's Kyrie, Mendelssohn/Pierce's The Hebrides*, Holst/Pierce's Venus*, Parry/Davis' Lad...