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This study in syncopation is Etude No. 26 from Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives.
This is the second duet in E minor from the 55 Easy Pieces by Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. The French title “La Craintive” could be translated literally as “The Apprehensive One”.
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“Primeiro amor” (Portuguese for “First Love”) was written by Brazilian flutist and composer Pattápio Silva (1880–1907). During his short life, Silva wrote more than a thousand compositions and arrangements, many of which are still being recorded today by prominent musicians.
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This jig has been solidly absorbed into the core repertoire of several folk genres. British sources seem to predate all others, with the earliest appearance of the melody so far found in the Brown Family music manuscripts (hand of James Lishman, Lake District, Cumbria, c. 1800), and musician John Buttery's manuscript copybook, compiled around the turn of the 19th century. Buttery joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln as a fifer and served the next 19 years with the regiment at various locations around the world. He later emigrated to Canada, bringing his music manuscript with him.
As “Roaring Jelly”, the tune was included by Nathaniel Gow in Part 3 of his Complete Repository c. 1806. The first printing under the title “Smash the Windows” appears to be in W.M. Cahusac's Annual Collection of Twenty Four Favorite Country Dances for the Year 1809, published in London. However, an American publication of around the same time, G. Graupner’s Collection of Country Dances and Cotillions No. 2 (Boston, c. 1810), also contains the tune. American flute player R.B. Washburn, who compiled his tune and dance collection from 1816–1820, included it in his manuscript copybook.
Today's piece is the eighth étude from Sigfried Karg-Elert's 30 Caprices: a “Gradus ad Parnassum” of the modern technique for flute solo.
This Allegro in D major is the third movement of the first of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet's Six sonatas of two parts, made on purpose for two German flutes, composed in 1720.
Anitra’s Dance is part of the music to Henrik Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt – one of the most ambitious, but also one of the most troublesome tasks that Grieg ever undertook. The composer wrote: “You don't believe, do you, that I had any choice in the matter? I was asked by Ibsen in spring, and of course I rebelled at the thought of setting this most unmusical of all subjects to music. It all hangs over me like a nightmare”. Nevertheless, the result was a triumph.
The fourth act is set on the north coast of Africa, where Peer Gynt meets a Bedouin chief in the heat of the desert. He falls for the chief's daughter, Anitra, who dances enticingly for him.