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Here is another very simple étude from Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives. Strive to play it perfectly, paying close attention to dynamics and to the quality of your tone.
“Voi, che sapete che cosa è amor” (“You ladies who know what love is, is it what I'm suffering from?”) is one of the most popular arias from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. It is performed by Cherubino, Count Almaviva's young page, who is about to be sent off to the army because the Count finds him a nuisance. When Cherubino appears before the Countess and her maid Susanna in Act II to tell them his fate, this aria is sung at the request of Susanna for a love song.
Written in 1912, “With Pleasure” was Sousa's first, and one of his few, compositions in the new Ragtime style. It was dedicated to the members of the “Huntingdon Valley Country Club” of Philadelphia, of which the composer was an active member.
Several years later he used the piece as one movement of a suite, which he called, “The American Girl”. Later, when Sousa would program this work, he would sometimes list it by its subtitle “Dance Hilarious”. This fun, pleasant venture into Ragtime has entertained audiences at band concerts for over 80 years.
This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. In his later book Irish Folk Music, O'Neill states that the tune was previously “unpublished and new to us”.
Here is another étude by Danish flutist Joachim Andersen. This melancholic Lento in D# minor is study No. 14 from his Twenty-Four Etudes for Flute, Op. 33.
Friedrich Kuhlau, a German-Danish pianist and composer of the late Classic and Romantic eras, wrote several compositions for flute. The piece we propose today, a fast G-major Allegro in triple time, is the first movement of one of the many flute duets he composed.
Thanks to Kate and George for suggesting this work!
Sonata No. 11 in F major (HWV 369) is the second of two major-mode recorder sonatas from Handel's Opus 1 collection. It was composed about 1725.
The third movement is quite an unusual one for a sonata da chiesa (which means “church sonata”, although these compositions were not meant to be performed in religious ceremonies). Handel inserts in the sonata this Siciliana in D minor, with short motives that end on the third beat of the measure. This movement naturally leads into the final Allegro, or Giga, which is also in 12/8.