Advanced Sheet Music for Flute

The tonal language of the flute sonata, and of Wanek's chamber music in general, follows a personal line, apart from any musical taste of the time. Formal coherence, brevity, discreetness and wit are...

In three movements entitled Nakts - Lidojums - Nakts, the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, born in 1946, uses onomatopoeic devices to describe a nocturnal flight of birds between dusk and dawn.

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...

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...

Igor Stravinsky's musical setting of the Slavonic fable of The Firebird, L'Oiseau de feu, is one of the pioneering orchestral works from the beginning of the 20th century. Reviews of the first perform...

A virtuoso showpiece for flute & piano lasting 7 minutes. Also available with added bass guitar and drums (contact the publisher for details)

This short piece, which was composed at the request of its dedicatee Anne-Cécile Cuniot (who gave its first performance on 4 August 2001 in Cambridge), is a veritable study on the art of theatre. It i...

This is a duet in the truest form for flute and piano. It is not just a solo for the flute. The two instruments work together as a unit.

In Greek mythology, Daedelus was an inventor who created wings from feathers and wax, so he and his son Icarus could escape Crete by flying away. While Daedalus flew wisely, Icarus flew too close to t...

Introspective for most of its five minutes, Inside Out is a study in beauty drawn from lyrical simplicity. Primarily a slow cantilena with a trace of Latin feel, Inside Out erupts into an exciting dan...

Composed for Jasmine Choi's premiere on the 2018 National Flute Association concerto gala, Dorff's Concertino is a 10-minute showpiece full of flash and theatricality, elegantly balanced with beauty a...

The composer describes the work, 'The opening movement has open strings, kind of melancholy piece which feels improvised, hence title. The middle goes hoedown for awhile, and when the opening returns...

Duo was originally written for violin and piano, but Sweeney intentionally left the instrumentation of the solo part open because he felt that the piece was more 'a rhythmic working-out of certain mot...

Gerhard Braun, der Herausgeber der Wiener Querflötenedition, hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den Spieler nicht nur mit wenig bekannter bzw. vergessener Musik der Klassik und Romantik, sondern auch mi...

Diese schwierigsten und eminent vielseitigen Studien bieten tatsächlich ein Kompendium aller nur denkbaren technischen Probleme der Flötenkunst.

Ho and nami are two Japanese characters and stand for spike and wave. In combination, Honami denotes the wavy swing of a flowering rice field, moved by the wind. The wind is the cause, the rice field...

The significant composers of the Romantic period almost entirely ignored the flute as a solo or chamber music instrument. It's for this reason that any historical adaptations of works suitable for the...

Die große spätromantische Sonate von Richard Rößler (1880-1962) stellt eine wesentliche Bereicherung der Literatur dieser Epoche dar. Im 1. Satz herrscht eine heitere Atmosphäre, in der der Charakter...