Here's a suite of three of the most charming arias from The Magic Flute (The Bird Catcher's Aria ?Either Girlfriend or Young Wife ? and ?Pa-pa-pa-pa?); instantly recognizable with solos for violin and cello as well as optional parts for solo recorder flute or piccolo glockenspiel and violin (also playable with string orchestra only).

From the comic opera filled with pirates Turkish princes kidnapping and daring rescues Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio is the piece of music that generated the (possibly fictional) ?too many notes?story. It is written in the Turkish ?janissary? style a style of music that fascinated Europe at the time. In this arrangement the right hand of the piano is frequently written 8va to help recreate the piccolothat figured prominently in the original.