Il Signor Bruschino is a one-act comic opera (farsa giocosa per musica) by Gioacchino Rossini which received its premiere in Venice in January 1813. The opera is among the first four operas composed b...
Ruy Blas is a tragic drama by Victor Hugo, premiered in 1838 in Paris. Felix Mendelssohn, despite not liking the play, was commissioned to compose an overture based on it in 1839. Here, it has been ar...
Variations on a Theme of Haydn, arranged here for Flute Orchestra, was original composed by Johannes Brahms in 1873, based on a piece title 'St. Anthony's Chorale.' Although it is disputed whether or...
A festive medley of 'Mi Yemalel' and 'Carol of the Bells', arranged here for Flute Orchestra by Shaul Ben-Meir.
The Capriccio Italien of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed in 1880, inspired by a trip he took to Rome. He writes to his friend and patroness Nadezhda von Meck in Russia: 'I have already completed...
La Boutique Fantasque (also known as The Magic Toyshop) is a ballet suite, with original music composed by Gioachino Rossini, and orchestrated by Ottorino Respighi. Included in this flute orchestra ar...
The Russian Sailors Dance is perhaps Reinhold Gliere's most well-known work. It is taken from Act I of the ballet, 'The Red Poppy,' premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) in 1927, with original cho...
La vida breve' is an opera in two acts composed by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. Although the opera is seldom performed today, selections from the opera are frequently performed by orchestras arou...
All four movements of Claude Debussy's charming Petite Suite in one volume: En Bateau, Cortege, Menuet, Ballet. Originally composed as a suite for four-hand piano, it is also well-known in its orchest...
Emile Pessard was professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory, and among his students were Maurice Ravel and Jacques Ibert. Although he composed more than a dozen operas and cantatas during his lif...
