Noten für Blasinstrumente

Water Variations was written in Lampedusa, a very little island between Sicily and Tunisia. The very fluid character of the melody comes from the feeling that you would have living inside the sea, wit...

Laura Barron, in collaboration with pianist, Jeffrey Sykes, introduces her new CD, Echoes of a Blue Planet. This eclectic recording features classical flute and piano compositions inspired by various...

This piece grew from ideas found in Webern and Schoenberg but became a terse dialogue of a more contemporary nature. The first movement is a study in starkness, the second a violently impassioned outb...

Potpourri (c. 18101s) features the airs Life Let Us Cherish, Auld Robin Gray, and La Matilda. Incomplete info on first performance, D. C. Jacobsen suggests a 2nd one was written.

The Twelve Fantasias (c. 1821) feature Mozart's La ci darem la mano, the Scottish air Roslin Castle, and Nicholson's own Bollero. Note: These salon pieces from the pen of Charles Nicholson, England's...

The First Concertino (c. 1826) features the French airs Portrait charmant, C'est l'amour and Mayseder's Le Petit Tambour. The Second Concertino (c. 1826) features the Italian airs Maid of Lodi and Car...

Originally entitled Capriccio, this is one of several pieces for flute and piano by Giulio Briccialdi. It is Romantic in nature and falls into that category of music referred to as show pieces. The pi...

The title Butterfly was chosen not only for its obvious associations and imagery, but also because the composition was created by a process of transformation and metamorphosis. This timed piece was wr...

The Nashua Flute Choir Celebrates its 20th Anniversary. This CD features Schocker's Views from Falls House*, Hoover's Kyrie, Mendelssohn/Pierce's The Hebrides*, Holst/Pierce's Venus*, Parry/Davis' Lad...

Four Poems for Solo Flute captures poetry through music. The poems included are Haiku, Soliloquy, Free Verse, and Sonnet.

Snapshots, a suite of five diverse pieces for SOLO flute, opens with a fanfare-like welcome followed by a lively second movement. A slow and quiet meditative piece occupies the central position. The l...

Dream Seeking for solo flute is about stretching oneself to achieve dreams. It is inspired by the sound of the Native American flute and more specifically R. Carlos Nakai, the world's foremost practit...

Pan plays his flute in the forest, but the performer also imparts the abject fear of unsuspecting passers-by who come across this creature (thus, Pan[ic]). Advanced performers will enjoy the duality o...

The Return of Odysseus is a new CD with three compositions by contemporary U. S. composer Robert Raines. The CD is released on the MSR Classics label and features some very exciting contemporary music...