I am bored with my music now, I want something new and challenging! I quite enjoyed playing the minuet by bizet... Any suggestions?

I just did the Gaubert Madrigal for grade 6 and really liked it (despite my mark for it!), and the Telemann unaccompanied Fantasias are interesting too.

What about some of Russell Stokes Jazz singles or the Bozza Aria if you like "calm, relaxing" stuff or some Faure. What sort of thing do you feel like playing?

There's a book called Flute Time Pieces 2 by Ian Denley (notTime Pieces) which has some good stuff in it. It includes the Idylle Nicki is working on at the moment, which is another Romantic-style piece like the Bizet.

BTW I tried to reply to your pm, but your inbox is full.

Idylle is lovely But you're probably fed up of me recording and sending it to you!

i've got 'music for solo flute' by trevor wye which has a lovely selection of different pieces! like syrinx (debussy), partita in a minor(J S Bach), sonata in c minor (J S Bach) and quite a lot of telemann fantasie's!
and the 76 graded studies book 2 is also nice! they are more like solo pieces rather than exercises in this book, and go from about grade 6 to 8 ish i think so there's quite a good range of difficulty! and madrigal is also lovely!

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Nope!


Hmmm now that sounds good... I've played scilienne.

There's a book called the Flautist's collection book 3 (I think...I recall telling july about it) that has the guabert and the godard in it, plus a bunch of other pieces around grade 5-7. I like it a lot!

Ooooh Morceau de Concours. I was going to buy that ages ago, but didn't.

Oh that sounds interesting

This is where the Baroque nut that I am is seen! Handel sonatas! Theres a red book of them by Barenreiter that have some really nice pieces in them the one in G major that Im working on just now is gorgous and of course how can we forget Telemann PM me if ud like the name of this as at this precise momnet Ive no idea where it is! If your up for a challenge you could always try Poulenc

ahh most over-played flute piece ever! it is lovely though...


wow! ive got book two, i have been looking to see if there is a book 1 anywhere but this sounds more like it goes in order with the standard (book two is about 4-7ish i think) where did you get it from? (book two is brilliant too by the way! a really nice collection, lots of different pieces)

Ooooh, like what? (tempted, tempted)

I think it sounds like there is a fair mix of grades even if they loosely go "in order"

Both book 2 and book 3 are both available from justflutes.com

Edmund-Davies The Flautist's Collection Bk 2 IND 5-8 EDM020 9.50 TR6
Edmund-Davies The Flautist's Collection Bk 3 IND 7-9 EDM030 9.50
Sumbler Flautist's Collection Bk 4 IND 3-8 SUM010 9.50 TRCC
Sumbler Flautist's Collection Bk 5 IND 5-8 SUM020 9.50 TR6

I don't know if the Sumbler ones are part of the same series.
I'm intrigued that book 3 is listed as grade 7-9 (as far as I understand it, their system is 1-8 are normal UK grades, 9 is diploma plus) as that Faure is grade 5, and the Gaubert and Caplet in it are both grade 6, and I really don't think anything in it is beyond grade 8... I'm assuming of course that it's the same book, as I bought mine about 8 years ago (I don't recall where I got it from, probably topwind or justflutes)

I'd love to know what's in book 2, I'll list what is in book three sometime, but I need an early night tonight!

Oooh which Caplet is in that book? My teacher was talking about a book with lots of pieces mmy level including Caplet, so I'll try and find the name of it.

The reverie - I blieve there's a sister piece to it (a waltz??) that is grade 7 ish...

Yes, there is. My teacher recorded a tape for me of piecves my standard and there was the Reverie and the Waltz

Petite Valse - Caplet -grade 7 B list

The Reverie is very cool though the piano part is v hard according to my teacher - and she can manage the Gaubert which is v v tricky (ie looks totally impossible to me!!! triplets against duplets all the time and some v hard ensemble stuff) so she must really mean it! I haven't heard/seen the Waltz at all though.

Ahhh thanks - I had a feeling it wasn't simply called waltz. Have you played it? what's it like?

Heard it on the cd but resisted the temptation to buy it - think I should concentrate on playing well some of the pieces I already have

lol, yup, know the feeling.

REALLY want to get hold of my teacher!

Still awaiting your result? How was the exam?

If you go on to the Kevin Mayhew website you can look at the contents of all the collections they publish. It's here.

okies, book 2:

andante - louis ganne
andante and allegro from sonata in E minor - J S Bach
dance of the blessed spirits from 'orfeo' - gluck
larghetto and allegro from sonata in F - handel
relflection (great piece!) - faure
scherzettino - taffanel
sonata in C - telemann
the little shepherd - debussy (except it goes down to a low b so i can't play it on my flute ....)
hehe but it is a really nice book!
so whats in book 3?

Are you sure? One of my students has that book and she played The Little Shepherd for her AS performance. I don't remember a low B - are you sure it's not a B#?

I have been reading these threads about flute compilation books with interest.
Does anybody know whether these are arrangements of pieces or whether they are reproduced like the original piece? For example Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirts is on the grade 5 list. Is the compilation book piece the same as the edition mentioned on the AB syllabus or perhaps an easier version? If the pieces in these books are like the originals then they seeem to be a good buy! I looked at that website (thanks for that link) and they about £9 a book.

In the ones I have used, the flute parts are the same as the originals. I think the piano parts are too where they are an original rather than an arrangement (eg the Gaubert Madrigal, which I've used from one of these). Where the piano part is a realisation of a figured bass, as in the Telemann C major, the arranger has taken certain liberties with the bass line which I dislike. I haven't looked at the version of Dance of the BS, so can't comment on that specifically.

Thanks.
When I have time I hope to get into Forsyth's (Manchester) where they keep a large stock of sheet music and can hopefully check out some of these books then.

Gluck- Dance of the Blessed Spirits seems to be in every book!!

Lovely piece though...I can't stop playing it!!

Yes, I've played it death for auditions and performances.

Ugh. I don't like that piece. I think it's probably just because it's overplayed and I have played it too much too - I've played it with two different teachers, I've played the orchestral parts when we did it as a chamber item at school, and I've played it on my own!