Charles-Marie Widor

Suite op. 34

Widor's name is so closely associated with organ music that his extensive output for other instruments is easily overlooked. Within chamber music, the Suite for flute and piano, probably written in 1877, stands out for its wealth of expressive and tonal nuances. The late romantic work is entirely tailored to the technical possibilities of the flute and is not by chance dedicated to the most important flutist and flute teacher in France at the time, Paul Taffanel, who premiered it in 1884. From the very beginning, the four-movement suite enjoyed great popularity and today belongs to the fixed repertoire of the instrumentation flute and piano.