Work for Flute and Guitar commissioned by Clive Conway and Gerald Garcia.Anthony Payne: 'As a passionate Elgarian for most of my musical life I was fascinated by the prospect of writing something which reflected or somehowincorporated his Memorial Chimes written for the Loughborough Carillon a piece moreover which I did not know although I pride myself on an intimate acquaintance with the greater part of his output. My own style is a far cryfrom that of the English late-romantics which I so love but I have recently discovered how to relate to their music in more than just spiritual and emotional particulars and in Spring's Shining Wake I produced a gloss of Delius'In a Summer Garden finding equivalents in my vocabulary for each of that work's procedures somethings approaching the original closely and sometimes shadowing it from afar.p>When I saw the Elgar I immediately realised that thiskind of approach was out of the question. For one thing it is quite a short piece and frankly it is not one of the master's great inspirations. It does however possess one characteristically haunting phrase and I saw how Icould draw it within my own harmonic and textural orbit not the sort of idea to base a work on but a happy little discovery such as one often makes during the course of composing a work.I accordingly set out to write a shorttone poem which somehow draws together the sonorous 'objets trouvés' which float into the mind during intense contemplation of a still landscape memories of the past (the Elgar) intimations of magic in the wind sudden intenseperceptions of the cosmic forces of which we form such an insignificant part ominous vibrations borne on the air from some other existence.

A Tambourin is a lively dance with two beats. Originally from Provence is was often accompanied by a pipe and a tambourine. Melodic simplicity and poignant rhythm were characteristic features often imitating the hand striking the percussion instrument. They were most popular widespread across France and Europe in the 18th Century this dance often inspired the more sophisticated court composers especially in France. This volume consists of 14 Tambourines by some of the great composers including Philibert de Lavigne Christoph Willibald Gluck Georg Friedrich Handel and Jean-Marie Leclair all arranged for Guitar and Flute by Bent Larsen and Jan Sommer.

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was an energetic French composer who is known for both his light-hearted instrumental works and his more serious sacred and choral music. His Mouvements Perpétuels (1918)was originally composed for Piano and is one of his earliest works penned while he was a conscript in the French army. While it has rightly endured to this day the older Poulenc did not like it thinking it detractedfrom his later more sombre work. This popular version of Mouvements Perpétuels is arranged for Flute and Guitar.

Score and Parts-Il Lamento di Tristano a work for Flute and Guitar is a set of variations on two themes that are highly contrasting in styles juxtaposing fragments from Wagner's Opera Tristan and Isolde with a 14th Centurymonophonic dance Lamento di Tristano.

Malcolm Arnold wrote this little fantasy in the early 1960s as a present for his children Katharine and Robert to play together. Even as a miniature it has many of the hallmarks of the Arnold style: the evocative melodic writing together with the occasional dark dissonance. It was written at a time when Arnold was deeply into film music; indeed in the famous film 'Whistle Down the Wind' the main theme is also for flute/piccolo and is not entirely dissimilar to that found in this fantasy.