Taffanel & Gaubert’s 17 DAILY EXERCISES has long been the standard source for daily warm-ups and general practice. Flute virtuoso Jasmine Choi provides a must-have expanded edition presenting the complete and authentic original “T&G” enhanced by additional exercises and suggestions for further facility and elegance, along with extra workouts for the expanded low and high ranges. This new edition appears in a crisp, new engraving optimized for easy reading, with commentary and instructions from Ms. Choi based on her own notes to herself in the copy she used as a student.

  

Orchestral Excerpts for Flute, Jeanne Baxtresser

Danza De La Mariposa, Valerie Coleman

Valerie Coleman’s Danza de la Mariposa is a rhythmic, melodic tone poem, giving the listener a tour of South America. Inspired by the various species of butterflies inhabiting the continent, this work is full of rich color, with butterflies dancing and weaving in syncopated rhythms while alternating between the feel of 3 over 4 throughout. Its slower sections pay homage to the beautiful and sorrowful sounds in the style of Yaravi, a Peruvian lament song. The melodies and rhythm eventually evolve into the spirit and syncopation of Argentinean concert tango, and the conclusion returns to the feel of Yaravi. For advanced players.
 

Memory, Chen Yi

In collaboration with flutist Mary Holzhausen, Chen Yi has created a solo flute version of this plaintive memorial work, originally for solo violin - the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer. The composer provides this program note: Dear Professor Lin: I wish you could hear the tune in Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly.

  

Flute 101: Mastering The Basics, Phyllis Avidan Louke & Patricia George

Flute 101: Mastering the Basics is a uniquely comprehensive teaching resource which, in one book, takes the student through introductory beginner, and intermediate curriculum. This book reinforces that beginners not only deserve an organized and creative curriculum, but also have a variety of learning styles that need to be addressed creatively, and that learning the fundamentals can be enjoyable when players can experience their benefits.

   

Hall of Ghosts, Amanda Harberg

HALL OF GHOSTS was composed in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown period; it was inspired by piccoloist Gudrun Hinze’s video for Harberg’s Prayer Project filmed in the hauntingly empty Gewandhaus Chamber Music Hall. Evocative of imagined spirits in the empty hall, the music pits dramatic silences, amid searching and plaintive phrases of the piccolo, against a lively middle section – a dialogue between the ticking of time and an instrument striving to make itself heard.
  

Peter's Piccolo World: Book One, Peter Verhoyen, Anke Lauwers, and Sarah Miller

This book was written to help you find your way with the smallest member of the flute family. It is for conservatory students, professionals, and for amateurs who want to develop their inner piccolo player.
It contains both teaching points and musical excerpts, as well as beautiful illustrations created to inspire. Topics range from posture and finger technique to embouchure, airstream, the throat, and much more. It also contains inside interviews with the writers and links to innovative teaching videos.

Maya (2 Flutes and Piano), Ian Clarke

A beautifully dreamy and accessible piece using a few note bends. A good double-tonguing workout for each part with both lines sharing the soaring melody. Apart from the expressive use of open holes the parts proceed with alternating arching melodies and bubbling semi-quaver passages.

   

Eternal Spring (2 Flutes and Piano), Eric Ewazen

Eternal Spring was composed for trumpeter Robert Sullivan as a eulogy for his wife, bassoonist Robin Sullivan. The work celebrates her life and music (including a quote from Mozart's bassoon concerto) with poignant melodies and an uplifting spirit. Eternal Spring (A Hudson River Idyll), originally for trumpet and piano, was adapted for two flutes and piano at the request of Marya Martin and Katherine Fink. For advanced performers.

  

I Will Not Be Sad In This World (Alto or Bass Flute), Eve Beglarian

Based on an Armenian troubadour song, I WILL NOT BE SAD IN THIS WORLD is a uniquely beautiful work for alto flute (or bass flute) accompanied by a pre-recorded audio track made purely from the composer’s own singing. The result is a fluid interplay between the live flute and the composer’s multi-tracked and processed vocal sonorities. The work was created for Marya Martin’s “Eight Visions” collection (published by Presser), and is now available as a single publication.

Prayer for a Damaged World (Bass Flute & Piano), Jonathan Cohen

PRAYER FOR A DAMAGED WORLD is, above all, a very beautiful and innocent melody for Bass Flute, supported by a gentle piano accompaniment – neither of which is technically demanding. Composed as a plea during the challenging summer of 2020, the work is a moving introduction to the lyrical and sonorous richness of the Bass Flute.

 

The Ultimate Collection of French Classical Flute Standard Concert Pieces! Edited by Louis Moyse. Contents: Prélude et Scherzo (Henri Büsser) • Concertino, Op. 107 (Cecile Chaminade) • Concertino, Op. 45 (Alphonse DuVernoy) • Cantabile et Presto (Georges Enesco) • Fantasie, Op. 79 (Fauré) • Andante et Scherzo (Louis Ganne) • Fantasie, Nocturne at Allegro Scherzando (Philippe Gaubert) • Ballade (Périlhou) • Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino (Paul Taffanel).

 

Sonate for Flute and Piano Op. 64, Mel Bonis