Today we propose the last air from Italian flutist Tebaldo Monzani's Twelve Airs as Solos for a German Flute with a Violoncello or Bass Accompaniment, published in London around the year 1800.
This is the opening movement of a flute duet in E-flat major by the prolific Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first published by Telemann himself in 1727 as part of a collection of 6 flute duets, TWV 40:130-135.
Today we propose the ninth piece from 24 Studi di perfezionamento per flauto, Op. 15, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues. It was first published in Milan in 1904.
This jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. In a 1906 letter to poet and folklorist Alfred Percival Graves, O'Neill wrote that he obtained the tune from listening to a pianist play it while attending a Chicago theater.
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, QV 1:105. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Today we propose the tenth piece from Duos faciles et progressifs pour 2 flûtes (Easy and progressive duets for 2 flutes) by Austro-Hungarian flutist and composer Adolf Terschak. It was first published in Paris in 1874.
Today's piece is the twenty-third study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
Today's tune was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He writes:
Morag MacNeil, Morag Bell as was, from St Ninians, Stirling, lived a stone's throw from our old home on Bannockburn Road, before marrying a Barraman and coming to live in Barra. She loves her sheep.
Handel composed his Oboe sonata in C minor, HWV 366, around 1711–1712, shortly after his arrival in London, but it was only first published in 1732.
This first movement of the sonata lacks an explicit tempo indication, but it is usually assumed to be a Largo, or sometimes an Adagio.
This Allegro is the second movement of a flute duet in E-flat major by the prolific Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first published by Telemann himself in 1727 as part of a collection of 6 flute duets, TWV 40:130-135.
Today we propose the tenth piece from 24 Studi di perfezionamento per flauto, Op. 15, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues. It was first published in Milan in 1904.
This jig first appeared in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. It is related to the popular tune “Lark in the Morning”, and some modern tune collections even present it under that title.
This is the second movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, QV 1:105. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Today we propose the eleventh piece from Duos faciles et progressifs pour 2 flûtes (Easy and progressive duets for 2 flutes) by Austro-Hungarian flutist and composer Adolf Terschak. It was first published in Paris in 1874.
Today's piece is the twenty-fourth study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
Today's tune was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He writes:
Sir Edward was a commissary officer of impeccable aristocratic Devon lineage in the 19th century corridors of power. He was sympathetic towards the plight of land-hungry crofters and cottars and was instrumental in promoting the creation of a commission to look into their grievances.
This Allegro is the second movement from Georg Frideric Handel's Oboe sonata in C minor, HWV 366. It was composed around 1711–1712, shortly after Handel's arrival in London, but it was only first published in 1732.
This “Dolce” in C is the third movement of a flute duet in E-flat major by the prolific Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first published by Telemann himself in 1727 as part of a collection of 6 flute duets, TWV 40:130-135.
Today we propose the eleventh piece from 24 Studi di perfezionamento per flauto, Op. 15, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues. It was first published in Milan in 1904.
The original edition states that “in this whole study the C between two B-flats is obtained by lifting the left-hand index finger and keeping the other fingers in B-flat position”.
The earliest known appearance of this jig is in a music broadsheet published in Dublin around 1785 by Elizabeth Rhames, under the title “Jackson's Bottle of Punch”. Irish music collector Breandán Breathnach, however, thinks this is unlikely to be a composition of the famous 18th-century gentleman composer Walker ‘Piper’ Jackson. The title “Pay the Reckoning” first occurs in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (1806).
This is the third and final movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, QV 1:105. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Today we propose the twelfth piece from Duos faciles et progressifs pour 2 flûtes (Easy and progressive duets for 2 flutes) by Austro-Hungarian flutist and composer Adolf Terschak. It was first published in Paris in 1874.
Today's piece is the twenty-sixth study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
Today's tune was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
[My wife] Jean and I were fortunate to holiday in New York, on Broadway no less, in the summer of 2017. We walked everywhere, hence the importance of the Broadway-bought walking stick.
This Adagio is the third movement from Georg Frideric Handel's Oboe sonata in C minor, HWV 366. It was composed around 1711–1712, shortly after Handel's arrival in London, but it was only first published in 1732.
This Vivace is the fourth and final movement of a flute duet in E-flat major by the prolific Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first published by Telemann himself in 1727 as part of a collection of 6 flute duets, TWV 40:130-135.
Today we propose the twelfth piece from 24 Studi di perfezionamento per flauto, Op. 15, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues. It was first published in Milan in 1904.
This is probably the most famous composition by the Irish gentleman musician and composer Walker “Piper” Jackson, who fashioned it around 1775. Jackson was a man of some wealth and land, who lived in a residence known as the Turret that commanded a magnificent view of the countryside. Sadly, a few years after Jackson's death it was struck by lightening, and has been in ruins ever since.
It has been speculated that the title “morning brush“ might refer to Jackson's love for foxhunting (“brush” is the name for the bushy, white-tipped tail of a fox), although some consider this theory a bit far-fetched.
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, QV 1:109. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Today we propose the thirteenth piece from Duos faciles et progressifs pour 2 flûtes (Easy and progressive duets for 2 flutes) by Austro-Hungarian flutist and composer Adolf Terschak. It was first published in Paris in 1874.
Today's piece is the twenty-seventh study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.