Flute, piano (solo: fl - 0.0.0.2.dble bsn - 3.3.0.0. - timp.perc(3) - hp - str)

SKU: BR.EB-8912

Dances with the Winds. Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Stockholm, May 4, 1974

Solo concerto; Music post-1945. Piano reduction. 40 pages. Duration 21'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8912. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8912).

ISBN 9790004185780. 9 x 12 inches.

The flute concerto 'Dances with the Winds' was composed in 1974 for the Swedish flautist Gunilla von Bohr, a specialist in all members of the flute family. The ordinary flute thus alternates with a bass flute at the beginning and end of the four-movement concerto, the second movement is assigned to the shrill piccolo and the third to the sensuous alto flute. The last movement is a summary of all the musical events in the concerto. At the end the bass flute soars to the top of its register, the note D acting as the pivot to many of the symmetries in the work, against a resigned B flat minor chord on the orchestra. (Einojuhani Rautavaara) CD: Patrick Gallois (flute), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Leif Segerstam ODE 921-2

World premiere: Stockholm, May 4, 1974 Additional to the original scoring for flute, piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute, the flute part in the piano reduction contains ossias for alto flute instead of the bass flute.

Or with flute accompaniment ad libitum. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Gerschon Jarecki. Arranged by Gerschon Jarecki. With Standard notation. Wiener Urtext/Vienna Urtext #UT50017. Published by Wiener Urtext/Vienna Urtext

Flute, piano

SKU: FG.55011-613-9

Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-613-9. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-613-9).

ISBN 9790550116139.

The music of Finnish composer Kai Nieminen (b. 1953) does not conform to any isms. He remarks: I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced something attempts to give that something a shape in music. The flute concerto Palomar was written for Patrick Gallois and premiered 2001 in Milan, Italy. The idea for his Flute Concerto came to Nieminen at the Villa Lante in Rome when he was kept awake by persistent birdsong in the heat of the night. The title alludes to the last novel, Palomar, by Italo Calvino. Though Nieminen finds inspiration in literature, the visual arts and nature, he has no desire to confine the listener to any programme. The aim of the extra-musical stimuli is at most to fire his listeners' imagination and to make them savour musical visions with a mind as open as that of Calvino's Mr Palomar examining the little wonders of the world around him. The orchestral score is available for sale (ISMN 9790550096370) and the performance material for hire from Fennica Gehrman.