Today's tune is taken from a collection kindly donated to us by piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This particular melody, a lively strathspey, was composed by his son, Rory, and is named after a beach on the isle of Barra. You can listen to the author's own recording of the piece here.
Today's piece was kindly contributed to our collection by guest composer Paul Merkus.
This Sarabande is my very first opus number, originating in 1983, at a time when I often played flute duets. That is why the first appearance of this Sarabande was as a duet for two flutes.
Because it was difficult to do the harmony justice in a flute duet, I also made the present version for flute and piano. The key has been changed as the Sarabande has been transposed down to G major.
The beginning of the melody is based on the effect that repeating the same note builds tension. After four bars of “monotony”, the built-up tension is relieved by a scale figure, after which a typical sarabande melody follows. In the second part, a contemporary modulation transitions into the recapitulation, followed by a melancholy conclusion.
This Adagio in F-sharp minor is the third movement of a sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major, HWV 372, first published in 1730. It was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel, but modern scholars consider this doubtful, and have labelled it as “spurious”.
Today's piece is the thirty-ninth study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
The earliest known appearance of this jig is in the Stephen Grier manuscript collection, dated 1883. Stephen Grier (c. 1824–1894) was a uilleann piper and fiddle player. A native of North Longford, he moved to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, in South Leitrim in 1852.
There is a village called Carrick in southwest County Donegal, but there are also other places with the name (derived from the Irish carraig, ‛rock’) in Ireland.
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in C minor for flute and continuo, QV 1: Anh. 5. As the “Anh.” (“Anhang”, German for annex) in the opus number suggests, the attribution of this sonata to Quantz is questioned by scholars.
This Presto is the fourth movement of a flute duet in E 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 second piece from 18 Studi o Soli per flauto (“18 Studies or Solos for flute”) by 19th-century Italian flutist and composer Giulio Briccialdi.
Today's tune is taken from a collection kindly donated to us by piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This particular reel, whose title is often abbreviated to just “Nusa”, was composed by his son, Rory. Nusa Lembongan is an island located southeast of Bali, Indonesia.
This is the fourth and final movement from a sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major, HWV 372, first published in 1730. It was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel, but modern scholars consider this doubtful, and have labelled it as “spurious”.
This Vivace is the opening movement of a flute trio in D major, QV 3:3.2, by Baroque flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz. This trio was probably written between 1726 and 1727, while Quantz was staying in Paris as part of his extended educational journey.
Today's piece is the fortieth study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
One of the earliest appearances of this jig, under the title “French Fancy Dance”, is in the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who judging from some of the tune names in the collection probably lived in Philadelphia. As “Prince Charles”, the melody also appears in the manuscript collection of Irish clergyman and piper James Goodman (1828–1896).
The familiar title “Charlie Stewart” was probably introduced by Francis O'Neill in his popular early-20th-century Irish music collections.
This is the second movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in C minor for flute and continuo, QV 1: Anh. 5. As the “Anh.” (“Anhang”, German for annex) in the opus number suggests, the attribution of this sonata to Quantz is questioned by scholars.
This Largo is the second movement of a flute trio in D major, QV 3:3.2, by Baroque flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz. This trio was probably written between 1726 and 1727, while Quantz was staying in Paris as part of his extended educational journey.
Today we propose the third piece from 18 Studi o Soli per flauto (“18 Studies or Solos for flute”) by 19th-century Italian flutist and composer Giulio Briccialdi.
Today's tune is taken from a collection kindly donated to us by piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This lively irregular-time melody was composed by his son, Rory. You can listen to the author's own recording of the piece here.
Today we propose the opening movement from a sonata for violin and basso continuo in F major, HWV 370, first published in 1732. It was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel, but modern scholars consider this doubtful, and have labelled it as “spurious”.
This is the third movement of a flute trio in D major, QV 3:3.2, by Baroque flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz. This trio was probably written between 1726 and 1727, while Quantz was staying in Paris as part of his extended educational journey.
Today's piece is the forty-first study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
This jig appears to be unique to Francis O'Neill's early-20th-century collections Music of Ireland (1903) and The Dance Music of Ireland (1907), both published in Chicago.
This is the third and last movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in C minor for flute and continuo, QV 1: Anh. 5. As the “Anh.” (“Anhang”, German for annex) in the opus number suggests, the attribution of this sonata to Quantz is questioned by scholars.
This is the fourth movement of a flute trio in D major, QV 3:3.2, by Baroque flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz. This trio was probably written between 1726 and 1727, while Quantz was staying in Paris as part of his extended educational journey.
Today we propose the fourth piece from 18 Studi o Soli per flauto (“18 Studies or Solos for flute”) by 19th-century Italian flutist and composer Giulio Briccialdi.
Today's tune is taken from a collection kindly donated to us by piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This fast reel was composed by his son, Rory, who recorded it in his 2001 album Nusa.
Today we propose the second movement from a sonata for violin and basso continuo in F major, HWV 370, first published in 1732. It was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel, but modern scholars consider this doubtful, and have labelled it as “spurious”.
This is the last movement of a flute trio in D major, QV 3:3.2, by Baroque flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz. This trio was probably written between 1726 and 1727, while Quantz was staying in Paris as part of his extended educational journey.
Today's piece is the forty-second study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
“The Muffin Man” is a popular traditional nursery rhyme and children's song. It was first recorded in a British manuscript circa 1820.
Do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man.
Do you know the muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane?
The man in question, who lived on Drury Lane in London, may have been a man whose profession was delivering baked goods to Victorian households, or possibly an impoverished beggar man.
“The Muffin Man” has been referenced several times in the Shrek series. First mentioned in Shrek (2001), a variant of the lyrics is used in a scene where the villain Lord Farquaad tortures and interrogates Gingy the Gingerbread Man.
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in D major for flute and continuo, QV 1: Anh. 10a. As the “Anh.” (“Anhang”, German for annex) in the opus number suggests, the attribution of this sonata to Quantz is questioned by scholars.