Arranged by Rich Heffler. For solo flute with piano accompaniment. Christmas. Level: Advanced. Set of parts. Published by Rich Heffler Music.

Flute and Piano

SKU: IS.FP4175EM

Composed by Jef Schampaert. Woodwinds - Flute. Metropolis Music Publishers #FP4175EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers (IS.FP4175EM).

ISBN 9790365041756.

Joze f (Jef) Schampaert's 1952 Notturno e Danza (Nocturne and Danse) for flute and piano, written as a concours piece for the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp in Belgium, is a bit of a curious beast. While the rest of the Belgian school was experimenting with a return to lush romanticism (Alpaerts, Maes, and the musical progeny of Benoit), or beginning to prod the tonal bounds of listenable 12-tone and serialism (Constant and Verbesselt), Schampaert took towards a different sound: that of the Impressionists, transmuted through his distinctly Flemish touch. The Nocturne and Danse is no exception. The core of the Nocturne is a relatively straightforward melody, but it's quickly pulled apart into Debussyian fragments and melodic cells - a rhapsody in miniature, with touches of Ibert's stranger runs and figures through. The Danse retains a clearer sense of melody, but one that's even closer to Debussy and Ravel - grace notes and intertwined, changing runs are integral melodic material, by turns dark then playful. A small cadenza again touches on a sense of Ibert before the piece is brought to a quiet close.

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.