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This Christmas Medley arrangement by Canadian composer David Taubner consists of four well-loved carols: Angels We Have Heard on High; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; We Three Kings of Orient Are and Aw...

Three lovely traditional Christmas carols are beautifully set and can be played separately or as a suite. These pieces each capture the magic of melody as well as the dance-like essence of this music....

Divinum Mysterium: Illuminations on a Christmas Plainsong, set for flute choir by Nancy Nourse. The complex origins of this great Christmas hymn began with the liturgical poem 'Corde natus ex parentis...

Francesco Manfredini's Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso per il Santissimo Natale) was published in Bologna in 1718, nine years after Torelli's Christmas concerto and just six years after Corelli's...

Nancy Telfer's Birdflight won First Place in the Composition Competition in 1985 of the Festival of Music from Around the World. This delightfully pictorial Canadian composition makes striking use of...

Antonio Vivaldi (c. 1678-1741) remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed of the baroque composers. In 1703, he was appointed to the position of music master at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice...

The beautiful orchestral work from which this arrangement comes is the Trittico Botticelliano by Ottorino Respighi, a set of three musical pieces based on three paintings by Sandro Botticelli -Spring,...

Divertimento is an original trio by Arthur Frackenpohl that was written at the request of a trio for a senior flute recital at the Crane School of Music. The first movement, Introduction, is in sonata...

These four pieces by Ernesto Nazareth were originally written for piano. Transcribed here for piccolo, these works show off both sides of the piccolo's possibilities, the brilliant and the plaintive....

The four preludes included in this collection are each based upon a tune associated with a particular time of the church calendar. The Lenten prelude, Meditation upon 'Forty Days and Forty Nights', li...

One of the simplest and most popular secular carols is 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' Conjuring up images of ancient English waits and crisp, cold nights of festive revelry, this music seems to be t...