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The 'Humoresques and Romances' are appealing literature for the advanced flute student. Catchy melodies with dance-like echoes (including tango and mazurka) make making music together a pleasure.

One of his last works, this virtuosic and highly demanding sonata is a must for all lovers of Françaix's sophisticated style.

This gently ironic and teasing work is also an extremely virtuosic hommage to his colleague and friend Aurèle Nicolet by the famous oboist Holliger. A compendium of contemporary avant-garde playing te...

Johann Georg Tromlitz (1725-1805) was solo flutist of the 'Große Konzert' in Leipzig, the predecessor of the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was not only a gifted performer but equally renowned as com...

Giulio Briccialdi was one of the most eminent flute virtuosos of the 19th century. Naturally, apart from one opera, his oeuvre consisted mainly of pieces for the flute. In numerous fantasies on excerp...

First published on the 50th anniversary of his death on September 8, 1999. 15-year-old Richard Strauss composed this piece (his only composition for flute and piano) in late April 1879.

Hermann Regner was a pupil of Orff and takes a special interest in easy teaching repertoire. With simple elements taken from modern music he aims to stimulate the player's imagination.Of his pieces he...

These two unpublished pieces for flute and piano were written shortly after Paul Dessau's emigration to France and were not rediscovered until 1992, when Dessau's unpublished works were looked through...

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 virt...

Apart from demanding concert pieces, Ernesto Köhler (1849-1907) primarily wrote methodological literature and music for playing in the Romantic style which are reminiscent of the small forms of Chopin...

In addition to demanding concert pieces, Ernesto Köhler (1849-1907) wrote above all methodical literature and playing music in the Romantic style, reminiscent of the small forms of Chopin, Schumann or...

The edition 'Klangblumen' by Barbara Heller (originally for piano, ED 20374) is now available for flute too.Each of the 14 pieces has a particular focus, such as a certain interval, a special playing...

With her Suite for flute and piano, the young Frenchwoman Clémence de Grandval established herself as a major French composer of the 19th century. As piano and composition student of Frédéric Chopin a...

Louis Drouet (1792-1873), much admired virtuoso flautist, composer, musical director and opera director, was 'a flautist of truly European standing and sphere of influence'. His method still forms par...

Sinuhe the Egyptian is a historical novel written in 1945 by the Finnish author Mika Waltari (* 19. SeptemberHelsinki). He was one of the best known authors in Finland and his works were translated in...

Paul Taffanel (born in Bordeaux on 16 September 1844, died in Paris on 21 November 1908) was solo flutist at the Paris Opéra comique and professor of flute at the Paris Conservatoire. Among the pupils...

This 'Fairy Tale Suite' is a cycle of pieces very varied in style and - like film music - even their titles suggest a story. From an elf prince to a dream and a sea voyage, then on to a (captive?) pri...

The music of small forms and of chamber-music instrumentations was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher...

The Brazil-based composer Alexandre Eisenberg wrote 'Arquichorinho' as a competition piece for the Brazilian National Flute Association (ABRAF). The music 'has been picked up on the streets of Rio de...

This 'Suite' is not one of my 'epic' instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken...