Il Flauto traverso

This sonata for flute and basso continuo is from the second part of a collection of twelve sonatas published in London in 1729.

The trio sonata, which begins with a siciliano (pastorale), is especially suitable for the Christmas season.

In 1739 Hasse published six trio sonatas in London, of which the fourth is available in this edition. The almost vocal expressiveness, especially of the two slow movements, reveals the important vocal...

Heinz Holliger whose Sonate (in)solit(air)e (FTR 175) has been a standard work of contemporary flute literature for a long time now presents two further compositions, with (é)cri(t) acting as a virtuo...

The six sonatas for three flutes by Boismortier have a lot of charm because of their rare sound form. All movements - in their simple manner - are set with imagination and sense of sound. Boismortier...

The Andante in F major, K. 616, was written for a mechanical organ work, a so-called 'flute clock'. The idea of publishing it in a version for a flute ensemble was obvious, since hardly any other inst...

PAN is an improvisation over given tone rows and rhythmic-dynamic models. Each major or partial phase of the improvisation process has a tonal space that may be played through again and again; this to...

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (1745-1814), son of the leader of the Royal Prussian court orchestra Franz Benda, was employed as a violinist in the court orchestra and was also featured there as a c...

This recorder solo, with optional tubular bells accompaniment, is headed by a line from an ode by Klopstock, also quoted in his diary by the poet Hölderlin: 'Death, our saviour, ... softly approaches...

Les ombres du vent - The Shadows of the Wind - is an impressionistic composition, written with a great sense of sound and of the possibilities of the flute. The Polish composer Krystof Zgraja wrote nu...

The work The Shepherd's Song by Felix Mendelssohn, presented as a reprint for the first time, is his only known original composition for flute. Although Mendelssohn frequently and skilfully used wind...

For already advanced flutists and lovers of Italian baroque music a particularly interesting release, which offers the opportunity to get to know Locatelli's personal style better.

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) became known especially as a theoretician with works such as 'Der vollkommene Capellmeister' or his basso continuo method. However, Mattheson was not just a knowledgeable...

Already as a child, says Wilfried Hiller, he was fascinated by the music of The Magic Flute, particularly by Tamino's flute songs and Papageno's glockenspiel music. This lifelong fascination induced t...

The Danish flautist and composer Andersen was one of the founder members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and for 10 years was the orchestra's 1st flute. He toured extensively (including Russia and America...

In the concerto of the French composer, also a famous flautist, classical cheerfulness and elegant virtuosity are combined with each other.