Spartiti classica

Written for the Canadian Flute Association for flute choir, this work was inspired by the life of Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), an Irish-born playwright, who spent much of his life in France. The comp...

Of the six Concertos, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, despite the fact it is composed for string orchestra, is the least like the traditional baroque concerto grosso, in that there is no solo or conce...

In this florid setting by Kelly Via of a quiet and haunting Celtic folk tune, By Kells Waters, in the Dorian mode, this melody is first featured in the bass flute, followed with many lyrical lines sha...

Published in 1610, Canzona 'La Padovana' is from Viadana's only purely instrumental collection, his Sinfonie muscali for eight voices, op. 18. Each of the eighteen canzoni therein is named after an It...

The Concerto in G minor (HWV 287) was written around 1703 while Handel was a young man still living in Hamburg. The four-movement form is rather unusual for the time. Even though the concerto was the...

Antonio Vivaldi (c. 1678-1741) remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed of the baroque composers. In 1703, he was appointed to the position of music master at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice...

Cross the Wide Missouri includes the setting of the folk song 'Shenandoah' by Kelly Via. This piece is a tribute to the Missouri River which flows through Kansas City, site of the 36th Annual Conventi...

Land of the Silver Birch is a well-known, well-loved traditional song sung widely around campfires across the Canadian province of Ontario. In this fantasia setting the colors of the alto and bass flu...

While the tune 'Red River Valley' itself is known by several different titles and there are a number of versions of the lyrics, it is certainly one of the most beautiful American folk songs. The lyric...

This classic virtuoso piece is an entracte in Act III of the fairy-tale opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan.' Though the opera has largely been forgotten, the Flight of the Bumblebee has been transcribed f...

In 1908, fourteen years after composing the Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Claude Debussy completed the piano suite, Children's Corner, which was dedicated to his daughter 'Chouchou.' The sixth an...

I'll Love My Love is a Cornish folk song made familiar by Gustav Holst. This arrangement was inspired by the settings of the song used by Holst in his 'Second Suite in F for Military Band', as well as...

Remembrances, Volume 1: Debussy, was commissioned by Kathleen Osborn for the West Michigan Flute Orchestra's music director Darlene Dugan, and is dedicated to the memory of Kathleen's husband Brad Osb...

Claude Le Jeune, a Franco-Belgian composer of psalm settings, instrumental pieces as well as popular chansons, enjoyed considerable recognition as a composer during his lifetime. In John Hawkin's A Ge...

The Romanian Folk Dances were originally completed in 1915 as a set of six movements for the pianoforte: Joc Cu Bata, Braul, Pe Loc, Buciumeana, Poarga Romaneasca, Maruntel. Probably the most famous v...

Salsita is an energetic and vibrant Venezuelan composition for flute choir by Victor Rojas, the director of the fabulous National Flute Orchestra of Venezuela. Composed in 1997 for performance at the...

The Sylvan Suite was written for composer John Palmer's wife, Anne, for her flute ensemble. Although most of John's creative work has been for the brass family, his approach for this suite found him t...

The Swiss Boy belongs to the vast repertoire of solo feature music of the nineteenth century concert-in-the-park bands. Before the days of electronic amplification, soloists had to be selected from am...

Water Music was composed by George Frederick Handel (1658-1759) and while no copies of this work in the composer's hand are extant, various catalogs and copies from that time show 9 to 20 movements in...

A delightful concert opener, Welcome! was premiered at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in 1997. Energetic, fun and approximately 2 minutes in length!

Divertimento No. 2 was composed in 2016 to showcase Flute Street, a Toronto-based, professional flute ensemble in which Isaac's mother, Carolyn Ricketts, is a founding member. Flute Street first perfo...