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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, second oldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was appointed successor to Telemann as musical director at the five main churches of the Hanseatic town of Hamburg. C.Ph.E. Bach...

The two duos op. 11 by the composer Cambini, who was also appreciated by Mozart, consist of Allegro and Rondo and are perfectly formed classical music pieces. Both flute parts are limited to a medium...

Peteris Vasks has added two pieces to the flute and piano repertoire which are well suited for both domestic music-making and concert-hall performances. Aria is a gentle, meditative dialogue between f...

Krzysztof Penderecki originally wrote Misterioso for flute and piano as a contribution to the flute school Skola na flet by Eugeniusz Towarnicki. This was published in 1963 and is considered the first...

An imaginative example of Old French instrumental music suitable for performance and teaching purposes.

The flute concerto in D Major is one of the few instrumental works written by the opera composer Reinhard Keiser, and even in this work, it is obvious that he is a composer of theatre music. Just the...

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

The four-movement sonata is characterized by two particularly well-formed, yet rhythmically elegant allegro movements.

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...