This series of six mini workshops proved to be a great success. The following list highlights both the pieces I chose and the ideas put forward by the participants. This was a real team effort!
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Workshop 1: How to survive a crisis!
My List:
Bordogni arr Clark: Melodious Etudes for Flute
Henner Eppel: Con espressione: 30 Expressive Studies from 19th and 20th Centuries
Tilman Dehnhard: The New Flute
Moyse: 50 Variations on a theme by Bach
Hilary Taggart: Nine Advanced Studies
Aleksey Igudesman: Magical Spells
Durichen: Orchestral Probespiel
Torchio: Difficult Passages Volume 1
Torchio: Difficult Passages Volume 2
Play Hollywood: 10 Screen Classics for Flute and Piano
Holcombe: Contemporary Flute Solos
Galway and Mancini: In the Pink
Suggestions from Participants:
Adams and Harris: 76 Graded Studies Book 1
Adams and Harris: 76 Graded Studies Book 2
Vester: 125 Easy Classical Studies
Schubert: Six Lieder arranged for Flute and Piano
Bach arranged Porter: Six Cello Suites
Bozza: Fourteen etudes-arabesques.
Beeftink via YouTube: playalong with the score on YouTube.
Workshop 2: If you love French flute music try these.
A look at less familiar but equally gorgeous French flute music.
My List:
Flute Solos from the Conservatoire edited by Martha Rearick
Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps
Henri Tomasi: Les Cyclades for solo flute with alto flute option.
Henri Tomasi: Complainte Danse de Mowgli
Henri Tomasi: Le Petite Chevrier Corse
Chaminade: Serenade des Etoiles.
Taffanel: Allegretto Scherzando and Allegretto Grazioso
Taffanel: Allegretto and Allegro
Suggestions from participants:
Louise Ganne: Andante et Scherzo
Flute Music by French Composers
Delibes/Massenet Three Original Pieces
Gaubert: Nocturne and Scherzando
Workshop 3: Keeping those fingers a-flapping!
A considered approach to technical exercises.
Geoffrey Gilbert and Angelica Floyd: The Gilbert Legacy
Taffanel and Gaubert: 17 Daily Exercises
Paul Edmund Davis: The 28 Day Warmup Book
Maquarre: Daily Exercises for the Flute
Gilbert: Technical Flexibility
Workshop 4: I have 10 minutes – flute or coffee?
How to organize your practice in a busy life.
Wienzerl and Wachter: Fit in 15 minutes.
Henrik Svitzer: Flute Exercises Volume 1.
Roderick Seed: Mastering the Flute with William Bennett
Workshop 5: If you love Baroque Music try these.
Discover new gems by lesser known composers.
My List:
Handel: Fitzwilliam Sonata in B flat major
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant: Six Sonatas Op 5 Volume 2 No 4
Michel Blavet: Sonata Op 2 No 2 in D minor ‘La Vibray
Frederick the Great of Prussia: Sonata in B flat major Spitta No 76
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata in G major
Ana-Bon de Venezia: Sonata in C major Op 1 No 1
Other suggestions:
John Stanley: Sonatas for a German Flute Op 4
JB Loeillet de Gant: Sonata in B flat major
TA Vitali: Chaconne in D minor
Suggestions from participants:
Albinoni: Various Oboe Concertos
Marin Marias: Les Follies d’Espania for Solo Flute
Thomas Roseingrave: Sonata No 1 in A minor
Frederick the Great: Flute Quartet
Workshop 6: How to keep sounding more lovely!
Colour is everything!
Marcel Moyse: Tone Development Through Interpretation
Marcel Moyse: 24 Petites Etudes Melodiques
Alison Myles: Inspiring Flute Tone
Robert Winn: Melodies: Musical Exercises for Tone and Interpretation
Phillipe Bernold: Le Technique d’Embouchure
Phillipe Bertold: Le Souffle, Le Son
