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Friday 16 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Study in E major by Berbiguier

 from “Eighteen Exercises or Etudes for Flute”

This Allegro in E major is the fourteenth étude from 18 exercices pour la flûte traversière by French Romantic composer Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier.

Categories: Etudes Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: intermediate
Thursday 15 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Soave by Telemann

 from “Sonates sans Basse à deux Flutes traverses”

This is the first movement of the first of Georg Philipp Telemann's Sonatas without Bass for Two Transverse Flutes, or Two Violins, or Two Recorders, although in some editions this particular sonata is referred to as Sonata No. 2. This first movement is marked “Soave” (pronounced So-ah-ve), which is Italian for sweet, soft, gentle.

Categories: Baroque Sonatas Written for Flute Difficulty: intermediate
Wednesday 14 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Un bel dì vedremo

 from “Madama Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini

Madama Butterfly is a famous opera in three acts (originally two) by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. It is set in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1904. According to some scholars, the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasaki in the early 1890s.

Pinkerton, a U.S. Naval Officer, marries Cio-Cio-San (aka Madama Butterfly), a young geisha, in a ceremony she takes more seriously than he. One day, Pinkerton finds that he has been deployed and must do a tour of duty. On the last morning he is with Butterfly he promises her that he will return with roses, when the robin builds his nest again.

At the beginning of Act 2, three years have passed, but Cio-Cio-San still refuses to believe that Pinkerton has abandoned her. She says that, “un bel dì” (“one beautiful day”), they will see a puff of smoke on the far horizon. Then a ship will appear and enter the harbor. She will not go down to meet him but will wait on the hill for him to come. After a long time, she will see in the far distance a man beginning the walk out of the city and up the hill. When he arrives, he will call “Butterfly” from a distance, but she will not answer, partly for fun and partly not to die from the excitement of the first meeting. Then he will speak the names he used to call her: “Little one. Dear wife. Orange blossom.”

Categories: Arias Opera excerpts Romantic Difficulty: advanced
Tuesday 13 May 2025

Tune of the Day: The Ranting Rake

 Traditional Irish jig

The earliest appearance of this jig is in the second volume of London publisher Smollet Holden's Collection of Favorite Irish Airs (1818), under the title “The Rakes of Irishmen”. It was later printed in the publications of flute player John Clinton and violinist Richard M. Levey, both born in Ireland but both of whom had successful careers in England on the concert stage, largely playing classical music.

Categories: Jigs Traditional/Folk Difficulty: easy
Monday 12 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Study in D major by Andersen

 from “24 Etudes for Flute”

Here is another étude by Joachim Andersen. This 12/8-time Larghetto in D major is study No. 5 from Twenty-Four Etudes for Flute, Op. 33.

Categories: Etudes Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: intermediate
Sunday 11 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Allegretto by Köhler

 from Forty Progressive Duets for Two Flutes

Here is a duet from the first volume of Ernesto Köhler's Forty Progressive Duets, Op. 55. After the exposition of the main theme, which opposes a sixteenth note run to a more lyrical melody, a short slow section in the key of G-flat major (beware the accidentals!) is introduced. The two flutes are treated almost equally in the very first part of the duet, but the second flute is subsequently relegated to an accompaniment role based on a characteristic rhythmic pattern.

Categories: Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: intermediate
Saturday 10 May 2025

Tune of the Day: Träumerei

 from Robert Schumann's “Kinderszenen”

Kinderszenen (“Scenes from Childhood”), Op. 15, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838 by German composer Robert Schumann. In this work, the great romantic Pianist provides us with his adult reminiscences of childhood. Schumann had originally labeled this work Leichte Stücke (“Easy Pieces”). Likewise, the section titles were only added after the completion of the music, and Schumann described the titles as “nothing more than delicate hints for execution and interpretation”.

“Träumerei” is one of Schumann's best known pieces. It was even used as the title of a 1944 German biopic on Robert Schumann. “Träumerei” is also the love song for Robert and Clara Schumann in the 1947 Hollywood film Song of Love, starring Katharine Hepburn as Clara Wieck Schumann.

Categories: Love songs Romantic Difficulty: intermediate