A collection of duets which exemplifies a variety of distinctive styles. Includes notes on Baroque performance practice including French `notes inegales'. Contains excerpts from `The Modern Flute Professor' by Meline; `Sonatas I IV and VI' by Loeillet; excerpts from `Twelve Duos for Two Flutes Op. 57' by Devienne; and `Sonatas II and III' from Six Sonatas or Duets for Two German Flutes or Violins Op. 2 by Telemann.

Eugène Goossens (1893-1962) was an English composer whose work was initially held in the same high esteem as contemporaries such as Walton but who has since faded into obscurity. He worked across the UK US andAustralia and helped lobby for the Sydney Opera House to be built. He was knighted in 1955. His music helped incorporate French impressionism into English Romantic music. His Four Sketches (Op.5) werewritten in 1913 scored for Flute Violin and Piano or 2 Violins and Piano. There are all simple and delicate but lively and enjoyable perfect for any recital. Book 2 contains the last two sketches:Romance and Humoreske.

2 Violins (or 2 Flutes) and Cello. Sheet Music and CD Play-along Pack available: see Q 4972 / Flûte Traversière(S) Et Autres Instruments

Aus Den 44 Duos Für Zwei Violinen. Par BARTOK BELA (ARR.FERESHTEH RAHBARI). Béla Bartók's '44 Duos” for violins are a set of marvelous musical miniatures that draw on the composer's love of Eastern European folk music. Ranging from easy to advanced standard, they have long been the province only of string players with arrangements first for cellos and more latterly for violas. Now they are available to delight flautists and will be ideal for recitals, either as a main program item or as encores, just as violinists have enjoyed them since their composition. Arranger Fereshteh Rahbari comments that it is thanks to the development of the flute over the last four decades, especially in its speaking quality, that these effective new arrangements could be made./ Répertoire / 2 Flûtes Traversières

Arrangeur: Elizabeth Walker. Par LECLAIR JEAN-MARIE. Elizabeth Walker has previously arranged four songs for flute and piano by Richard Strauss for ALRY Publications, as well as four 'Songs Without Words' by Felix Mendelssohn for two flutes and piano. This 'Chaconne' by Jean-Marie Leclair is taken from his 'Deuxième récréation de musique', opus 8, originally composed for two flutes or two violins, and basso continuo. It is a long, involved movement lasting approximately 8 minutes: with contrasting major and minor sections, multiple rhythmical, rhetoric and emotional changes. The piece shows influences of flamboyant artistry seen in Italian baroque pieces, but also the formal structures of the French dance form. Elizabeth has addedphrasings, articulations and written out some of the French baroque ornaments to aid a historically informed, stylistic interpretation on modern flutes./ Répertoire / 2 Flûtes Traversières et Piano

Score and Parts for Franz Joseph Haydn's Divertimento In D Hob.II:8 for 2 Flutes 2 Horns 2 Violins and Basso Continuo. This is an authoritative Henle Urtext version edited by Sonja Gerlach.