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This is the very first duet from La scuola del flauto (The School of the Flute) by Italian composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.
Thanks to Paolo for contributing this piece!
François Couperin was a French composer, organist and harpsichordist of the Baroque period. He was known as Couperin le Grand (“Couperin the Great”) to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.
Couperin's harpsichord music is the dominant portion of his output, and one of the most impressive keyboard legacies in Western music. The individual pieces are grouped into 27 ordres, a term Couperin coined, apparently to distinguish them from the older suites. “Le rossignol en amour” (literally, “The Nightingale in Love”) is taken from the XIV ordre, and is an excellent piece to play on the flute, as the Composer himself wrote:
It is not necessary to adhere too precisely to the beat in the Double above; one must sacrifice everything to appropriate expression, to the clean execution of the passagework, and to softening the accents marked by the mordents. This “Rossignol” can be performed with the greatest possible success on the flute, when it is well played.
This slip jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland (Chicago, 1907), although it had appeared in other publications as early as 1864. O'Neill obtained the tune from Irish collector Patrick Weston Joyce, who had noted it in 1853 from James Buckley, a Limerick piper.
Today we propose étude No. 20 from Italian flutist and composer Ernesto Köhler's 25 Romantic Studies, Op. 66.
This is the third movement of a Sonata in G for three flutes written by the 18th-century German composer Johann Scherer.
The fourth of five movements in Handel's Recorder Sonata in C major, this is the only movement in the sonata which is explicitly dance-related. In fact, its title means “in the time of a gavotte”, with reference to a French folk dance of moderate tempo that was very popular during the Baroque era.
This movement has a quite unusual structure: it's made up of three sections of increasing length (4, 8 and 34 bars), each with repeat markings.
This 9/8-time jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. “The Swaggering Jig” is a member of a large family of melodies, which as a matter of fact includes a few other slip jigs sharing the same title. Various sets of words have also been set to these tunes over the years, for instance by the band Dervish from County Sligo.