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Sonata 1 opens with a movement marked 'Sostenuto' and expresses to perfection the melancholy gracefulness associated with B minor. A vivacious Allegro follows, kaleidoscopic in its ever-changing rhyth...

Boismortier's final surviving set of trio sonatas, the [IV] Sonates pour deux flutes traversieres avec la basse, Op. 78, dates from late 1739 or early 1740. With this set the composer has, in a sense,...

Towards the end of his long life the organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789), resident in the Baltic port of Stettin (today, Szczecin in Poland), achieved a degree of fame as a composer through t...

Boismortier's numerous musical achievements include composing the first (and probably the only) concertos for two unaccompanied melody instruments, namely his Op. 38: VI Concerto pour 2 Flutes-travers...

Trio sonatas by Italian composers from the period around 1730 that specify flutes for both upper parts are quite rare. Among the earliest known are these three concise four-movement sonatas of only mo...

These sonatas reveal a great independence of thought in melodic writing that pushed the boundaries of flute technique further than before. They consist of highly ornamented, virtuoso, parts for the fl...

The first instrumental compositions published by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - whose posthumous reputation was built around his having been the first French composer to take up Italian concerto form -...

The flute sonatas, now published in a modern edition for the first time, are all three-movement works. They bubble with life and have moments of great drama, particularly in the development sections o...

The flute sonatas, now published in a modern edition for the first time, are all three-movement works. They bubble with life and have moments of great drama, particularly in the development sections o...

As did most of the galant composers attached to the Berlin court of Frederick the Great, Carl Heinrich Graun wrote a significant number of trios [trio sonatas] that exist in versions with different sc...

La principale publication de Skinner est un ensemble de six sonates pour flûte, violon ou clavecin seul, qui paraît en 1752. Ces pièces sans prétention, à l'époque comme aujourd'hui bien adaptées à l'...

La principale publication de Skinner est un ensemble de six sonates pour flûte, violon ou clavecin seul, qui paraît en 1752. Ces pièces sans prétention, à l'époque comme aujourd'hui bien adaptées à l'...

Hummel's arrangement of the Piano Concerto in D major, K537, the fifth in the series to appear, was published in 1835. The lead-in (Eingänge) models that he provided are particularly valuable in the c...

While the quartet for flute and strings in C major (c. 1827) by itinerant flute virtuoso Louis Drouët belongs to a genre that had seen its heyday in the late 1770s and early 1780s, this composition sh...

A powerful piano trio in Luna Alcalay's unique style. First performed in the Brahms Saal of the Wiener Musikverein.

Un sogno a tre pour flûte, alto et harpe a été écrit en 1990 pour un trio de jeunes instrumentistes et créé aux États-Unis. Selon les mots énigmatiques du compositeur, "la pièce n'a ni début, ni milie...

'Amor vince ogni cosa' is a cantata-like work in which the actions of two shepherds, Linco and Silvio, overcome the misfortunes of two shepherdesses, Filli and Eurilla, who are subsequently urged by P...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier was unusual amongst his French contemporaries in setting a significant number of Italian texts. Among the most substantial of these settings are a pair of so-called pastoralet...

Among Vienna's many composers and pianists of the time, Anton Eberl (1765-1807) was the one considered most worthy of comparison with Beethoven. His Sonata in A minor, Op. 10 No. 1, probably the third...

A pastorella (the Latin pastores means shepherds) had evolved during the eighteenth century as a work to be incorporated into midnight Mass that dramatised the role of the sheperds in the Nativity sto...

Here, for the first time in modern edition, is the fourth in our series of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's superb arrangements of seven of Mozart's piano concertos, the Concerto in C minor, K491.

This atmospheric, sensitive piece for solo SATB (or small vocal ensemble) with optional string quartet was written by Timothy Raymond for the 2017 Lower Machen Festival. The contemporary harmonic lang...