This Andante is the opening movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in B-flat major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708 ..read more

This gavotte is the third movement of the first of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736 ..read more

This tune first appears in R.M. Levey's first collection of The Dance Music of Ireland (1858) as an untitled jig. The title “The Short Grass” is introduced in Elias Howe's Musician's Omnibus No. 2, published around 1864 ..read more

Sigfrid Karg-Elert composed his 30 Caprices for Flute between 1915 and 1918. The German composer wrote them specifically for Carl Bartuzat, a flautist bound for service in the war. These short exercises were designed to challenge linear one-staff thinking and, in short, keep the friend from becoming bored. They are now a standard set of technical, dynamic, and phrasing exercises for flute students all over the world. The Chaconne, a form taken from the baroque era, is the last and most challenging of the thirty caprices. It is based on a ground bass (“Basso ostinato”) of four notes: F, Eb, Db ..read more

This gigue is the final movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708 ..read more

This waltz comes from a set of 16 short waltzes for piano duet written by Johannes Brahms. Published in 1865, and dedicated to the Bohemian musicologist Eduard Hanslick, the pieces had an instant success, contrary to the composer's expectations. Over time, number 15 in A-flat major has acquired a life of its own. You can choose to play this flute arrangement as a slow, sweet lullaby. Take advantage of dynamics to express all its feelings ..read more

This quirky jig appears to be unique to Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907 ..read more

Today we propose a little study by British flutist and composer John Clinton. It was first published in London in 1843, as part of his A Theoretical and Practical Essay on the Boehm Flute ..read more

This Allegro is the second movement of the first of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736 ..read more

This jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. It is however closely related to the Scottish jig “Teviot Brig”, which was first printed in Nathaniel Gow's Complete Repository in 1817. Ballinafad (meaning “mouth of the long ford”) is a village in the south of County Sligo in the west of Ireland ..read more