“Chevaliers de la table ronde” (“Knights of the Round Table”) is a French-language student song that can be heard in France, Canada, New England, Switzerland and Belgium.
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This slow piece in F-sharp minor constitutes the third movement of a flute sonata in A major by Jean-Christophe Naudot, a French composer and flutist of the early 18th century.
This short piece constitutes the third duet in D minor from the 55 Easy Pieces collection by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
This lively “Farewell” in A minor, originally written as a study for solo piano by German pianist and composer Friedrich Burgmüller, is taken from his 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op. 100.
This jig is taken from Walsh's third collection of Lancashire tunes (Lancashire Jiggs, Hornpipes, Joaks, etc.), published around 1730.
Composed circa 1720, this E-minor sonata (HWV 379) is Handel's own compilation of movements taken from three other solo sonatas. Confusingly, this sonata has sometimes been numbered Op. 1, No. 1a, when in fact it never appeared in Opus 1.
The fourth movement, the only Allegro in the sonata, was plucked by Handel from his Violin Sonata in D minor, but was significantly revised to meet the needs of the flute.
This tiny little piece constitutes the slow third movement of the fifth sonata from a collection of 12 “little sonatas” for two flutes by the prolific French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
This Allegretto is the 30th study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This song originated from the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), in which the British Empire fought the Boers, the Dutch settlers that had made South Africa a colony of Holland 200 years prior. The British troops sang the song as they marched toward Pretoria, then the capital city of the South African Boer colony, as the song's chorus goes:
We are marching to Pretoria, Pretoria, Pretoria
We are marching to Pretoria, Pretoria, Hurrah
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This is the third and final movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata No. 4 in D major for flute and continuo. It is one of the many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
This rondeau constitutes the fourth duet in D minor from the 55 Easy Pieces collection by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
This “Consolation” in C major, originally written as a study for solo piano by German pianist and composer Friedrich Burgmüller, is taken from his 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op. 100.
This lively march appears in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, Volume II, published in London 1806.
This calm Nocturne, with its famous French horn solo, was written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1842, as part of his incidental music to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Today, it is often played as an independent piece, just like the popular Wedding March, also from the same work.
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This gavotte constitutes the fourth and final movement of the fifth sonata from a collection of 12 “little sonatas” for two flutes by the prolific French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
This “Allegro non tanto” is the 31st study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This traditional Scottish hornpipe appears in the fourth volume of James S. Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies, published around 1880.
The Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. By Chopin's request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart's Requiem.
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This is the imposing opening movement of the first flute trio from Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau's Three Grand Trios, Op. 86, composed in 1826.
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This waltz-like piece, originally written as a study for solo piano by German pianist and composer Friedrich Burgmüller, is taken from his 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op. 100.
This popular song, also known as “Le Prisonnier de Hollande” (“The Prisoner of Holland”) dates to the 17th century. It appeared during or soon after the Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), during the reign of Louis XIV, when French sailors and soldiers were commonly imprisoned in the Netherlands.
An English version of the song, titled “I love only one girl” (“the one I've got my arms around”), was sung by Elvis Presley in the 1967 film Double Trouble. The song appears in various movies (such as The Day of the Jackal) and in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is mentioned in many books. In Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber, Prince Corwin even claims to be the one who composed it!
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The “Allegro assai” in B-flat major we present today is the second movement of the twelfth Sonata from the Trattenimenti armonici collection by Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni.
This prelude opens the ninth section of the 55 Easy Pieces collection by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
This Allegretto is the final study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This tune is taken from Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808, published in London by Goulding & Co.
Admiral Lord James Gambier (1756–1833) was a career Royal Navy officer who served in the Channel Fleet during the wars with Napoleon. At the time of Goulding's publication Gambier had just been awarded the thanks of Parliament and a peerage, becoming Baron Gambier of Iver.
This is the second movement of a Sonata in E minor for recorder and basso continuo, written by Italian composer Benedetto Marcello around 1712.
This Scherzo and its accompanying Trio constitute the second movement of the first flute trio from Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau's Three Grand Trios, Op. 86, composed in 1826.
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This short piece in F major, originally written as a study for solo piano by German pianist and composer Friedrich Burgmüller, is taken from his 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op. 100. The piece is also known by the English title “Chatterbox”.
This French folk song is sung both as a nursery rhyme and as a drinking song. It first appeared in print in 1535, and some sources indicate that the music may have been composed by Orlande de Lassus, an important Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance.
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These two nice airs, one in A major and one in A minor, constitute the fourth movement of a flute sonata in A major by Jean-Christophe Naudot, a French composer and flutist of the early 18th century.
This is the opening movement of the sixth sonata from a collection of 12 “little sonatas” for two flutes by the prolific French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.