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Tune of the Day: The Swallows

This is étude No. 10 from Ernesto Köhler's 25 Romantic Studies, Op. 66. It alternates a 2/4-time Allegro in G major and a light Waltz in D major.

Tune of the Day: Andante sostenuto by Köhler

This is flute duet No. 14 from the second volume of Ernesto Köhler's Forty Progressive Duets, Op. 55. In this piece the second flute does not merely accompany the first one: they both share the main melody.

Tune of the Day: Andante

The opening movement of Bach's Flute Sonata No. 4 is actually more of a “Presto”, although it begins with a measured “Andante” introduction. The flute plays nonstop throughout, and when it launches into the cadenza-like Presto proper, the accompaniment is reduced to a single, suspenseful, long-held chord. It's immediately clear that the flute part of this movement could easily stand alone.

Here are the following movements: Allegro, Adagio, Menuetto I and II.

Tune of the Day: The Humors of Castleoliver

This jig appears to be unique to Chicago Police captain Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907.

Castle Oliver (also known as Clonodfoy) is a Victorian castle-style country house in the southern part of County Limerick, Ireland.

Tune of the Day: Study in B-flat major by Karg-Elert

This is the fifteenth étude from Sigfried Karg-Elert's 30 Caprices: a “Gradus ad Parnassum” of the modern technique for flute solo. It is marked “mosso e leggerissimo”, which translates as “agitated and very light”.

Tune of the Day: La Claudine

This is the last duet in E minor from the 55 Easy Pieces collection by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.

Tune of the Day: The Skaters' Waltz

“Les Patineurs” is a waltz by French composer Émile Waldteufel. Known in English as “The Skaters' Waltz”, it was composed in 1882 and was inspired by the Cercle des Patineurs (“Ring of Skaters”) at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. His introduction to the waltz can be likened to the poise of a skater and the glissando notes invoke scenes of a wintry atmosphere. The other themes that follow are graceful and swirling, as if to depict a ring of skaters in their glory.

Extremely simple and catchy, Waldteufel's Waltz once enjoyed a popularity rivaling that of the works of his near contemporary, Johann Strauss, Jr. It has featured in dozens of films, from the earliest talkies to the present, including the Academy Award-winning Chariots of Fire.