What style do you prefer on flute and what pieces do you really love?

There's this grade 2 piece called Nimble Flute from fifty for flute book 1 that I really love.

Sans Saenes (sorry) Romanze!
It's about grade 5/6 and a real great piece to play. It has just about everything: covers all the register, some really beautiful fast runs, a lovely flowing melody and lovely harmonies. It is lovely!

I enjoy playing pop pieces for a laugh, like shakira and stuff but right now, I love Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart for flute and Ave Maria!

I like the mozart flute concertos! they're fab!

Men of Harlech is quite a good one, and gymnopedie or whatever it is by Satie.

Summer Music which is movement one and siesta from the summer music book by richard rodney bennett. Movement one is on the grade 6 syllabus and movement 2 is on the grade 5 syllabus. They're both so nice

QUOTE (pianoforte @ Jul 5 2004, 06:06 PM)

Sans Saenes (sorry) Romanze!

Is it possible that you mean Saint-Saens?

There are lots of pieces I like to play! But I love baroque music played on the flute especially Telemann! I really like the Grade 7 telemann sonata although only the first 2 movements are on the list but I really like the 3rd movement!

Ooh, loads...

Handel: Sonatas in E minor and A minor
Bach: Sonatas in E minor and B minor (especially the first movement of the B minor)
Poulenc: Sonata
Prokofiev: Sonata in D
Matthias: Sonatina
Faure: Fantasie
Rutter: Suite Antique, especially the first and last movements.
Russell Stokes: Jazz Singles, especially number four.

I'm also fond of numbers 60, 74 and 76 from 76 graded studies for flute.

I'm sure there's a load more stuff that I've forgotten to mention, but that's enough to be getting on with...

Just for practise, i love to play the flight of the bumblebee (Rimsky) and Flute concerto in F minor (vivaldi)

Apart from that, i love the play studies and fingering exercises kinda thing

Oooo Helena - I'm with you on that lot! Especially the Bach - the E Minor swoooooooooooooooooon, the B Minor, drrrrrrrrribble. Ever tried JSB's Adagio from the Easter Oratorio? It's a total cracker - incredible stuff. Short but dripping with emotion...........sigh. Right, Bag is now trotting off to go and have a lie down....x

I lik doing songs from Grease too- i've got a book with a playalong cd and it's really fun!

I love playing jazz. Danish Blues By Graham Lyons (grd 5) is amazing!!!!!!!! its from useful flute solos bk 2.
Alex
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QUOTE (MBC_Tiger @ Jul 6 2004, 06:11 PM)

Men of Harlech is quite a good one, and gymnopedie or whatever it is by Satie.

I think I have the same book as you, coz all the ones you've said, I was playing this morning! Yeah, you're right, they are good to play!

I forgot to mention antything by C.P.E Bach I prefer CPE to all the others! Especially sonate D dur the 1st two movements are amazing!!!

Madrigal by Gaubert....it's so nice..I did it for my grade 6 a while back. Agree with u weejen, the mozart concertos are fabbity! Hehe. Do u like the one in D??

By the way, does anyone know faure's 'morceau de concours' and is it nice? I have to play it for my GCSE performance next year and I haven't seen the music yet and I've never heard it. It's apparently not too hard and I like Faure's music usually but a few people I've spoken to don't really go for this piece..

Morceau de Concours......hunny, it's a little gem!

If you have a good tone and can play with expression it is an ideal piece to play for gcse, (it is actually a grade 7 piece).

QUOTE (flawed but flautless @ Aug 14 2004, 07:35 PM)

Madrigal by Gaubert....it's so nice..I did it for my grade 6 a while back. Agree with u weejen, the mozart concertos are fabbity! Hehe. Do u like the one in D??

I did the madrigal for grade 6, and the mozart for grade 7! I love those pieces!!!

I wanted to do the Mozart for my grd 7 but it's not on the sylabus anymore

QUOTE (helena @ Jul 26 2004, 10:15 AM)

Rutter: Suite Antique, especially the first and last movements. Russell Stokes: Jazz Singles, especially number four.

Yeah suite antique is amazing!!! do you like the Ostinato???
I love Russel Stokes!!! I haven't done a lute exam yet without playing one of his pieces-I'm doing number 4 for muy grade 7~can you do the double tonguing coz i can't!!!

Ooh suite antique, nice! The first movement is in the high register quite a lot though, if I remember rightly?

Thank you for the remarks about the Faure, Bagpuss and Hotair-they were reassuring! I didn't know what the piece was going to be like! Bearing that in mind, I still don't, but I'll take your word for it that it's nice.

I know this isn't really a flute piece but what do people think about choral works, such as 'Misere Mei Deus' by Allegri? I get a shiver up my spine when I hear it. And there's this orchestral piece called 'The firebird' by Stravinsky too....

ok, i'm going, i'm going

yeah most of the 1st movement is in upper register is really really nice!!!!

QUOTE (its so rock n roll @ Aug 16 2004, 02:48 PM)

QUOTE (helena @ Jul 26 2004, 10:15 AM) Rutter: Suite Antique, especially the first and last movements. Russell Stokes: Jazz Singles, especially number four. Yeah suite antique is amazing!!! do you like the Ostinato??? I love Russel Stokes!!! I haven't done a lute exam yet without playing one of his pieces-I'm doing number 4 for muy grade 7~can you do the double tonguing coz i can't!!!

I did number four for grade seven as well, I was OK with the double and triple tonguing... I didn't know it was still on, I did mine about five years ago I think.

Ostinato from Suite Antique is lovely, but I've never performed it for anything. The first movement seemed quite high at the time I think!

I've also played The Firebird in orchestra, I was quite young at the time and found it difficult - I think it was the first thing I played where half the orchestra are in 2/4 and half in 6/8 at the same time. However, several years later I did A level music and the set work for one period was Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, so I knew what to expect!

wowo different time sigs! i've never come across that beore~sounds confusing! I'm finding the double and triple tonguing quite hard because i have a brace but it's getting there. I've never performed ostinato either I just really enjoy playing it~ it's so much u! lol
Alex
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sorry I meant to say it's so much FUN lol me bad typo