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Little is known about Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite in A Minor. It may date from the first decade of the 18th century, but wasn't even published until 1936, when a general re-discovery of Telemann's...

The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi are among the most recognizable pieces of all classical music. Originally composed as four violin concerti, Vivaldi originally published the works with accompanying...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. Here, the fourth movement (Allegro assai) has bee...

The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor), K. 486, is a comic opera (singspiel) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, set to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian theatre director. The entire work...

Abdelazer' was written in 1676 by British playwright Aphra Behn. Subsequently, composer Henry Purcell wrote incidental music for this play in 1695. The movements arranged here for flute ensemble are a...

Le tombeau de Couperin wurde ursprünglich als Suite für Klavier solo von Maurice Ravel komponiert. Sie wurde zwischen 1914 und 1917 geschrieben und besteht aus sechs Sätzen, die auf den Sätzen einer t...

Emmanuel Chabrier's orchestral rhapsody, España, is perhaps his most well-known composition, and it was premiered in Paris in 1883. Inspired by his travels to Spain during the previous year, the compo...

Antonio Vivaldi composed nearly 50 concertos for pairs of soloists, however, this Concerto in C major, RV 533, is the only one which he composed for two flutes. Here it has been arranged by Shaul Ben-...

A masterful arrangement of the final movement of Felix Mendelssohn's beloved Symphony No. 4, commonly known as the 'Italian' Symphony. The Saltarello is a dance in compound meter with origins in the T...

The Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) of Edward Elgar is an orchestral work consisting of an original theme with fourteen variations was composed in between 1898 and 1899. Th...

The beloved Clarinet Concerto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler, and was the last purely instrumental piece of music he composed. Here, the second movem...

Semiramide was composed by Gioacchino Rossini in 1822 and it received its premiere in Venice in February 1823. Based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria, 'Semiramide' was his final 'Italian' opera a...

Composed in 1890, Claude Debussy's 'Reverie' was one of his first piano solos that achieved great popularity. It is a simple melody floating over a gentle accompaniment, like a daydream.

Jacques Offenbach's iconic operetta bouffe 'Orpheus in the Underworld' was first performed in Paris in 1858. Though the overture consists of a variety of themes from throughout the opera, the most rec...

During his lifetime, Frederic Chopin composed nearly exclusively for the piano, and every one of his compositions involves the piano in some capacity. Though he is believed to have composed 36 waltzes...

Chopin composed this graceful, yet somewhat somber Valse (Op. 64, No. 2), as the companion piece the waltz commonly referred to as the Minute Waltz (Op. 64, No. 1). Originally in the key of C-sharp mi...

This Waltz No. 2 in C Minor is taken from Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra, a suite of eight movements all based on other works by the composer. The material for this waltz is deri...

Joachim Andersen had a prolific career as a flutist, performing in the Royal Danish Orchestra (Copenhagen), the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, and co-founding the Berlin Philharmonic. However, the par...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. Here, the third movement (Menuetto) has been arra...

Rosamunde' was a play by Helmina von Chézy, premiered in Vienna in 1823, with incidental music composed by Franz Schubert. In addition to the oft-performed overture, the remainder of the music from th...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 25 in G minor in 1773 when he was only 17 years old, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. The first movement...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. The second movement (Andante) arranged for flute...