"Excellence in quality and creativity"
Thank you - this book is sensational and a wonderful gift to the flute world!
Rosalie
These don’t sound like “student pieces.” I wouldn’t hesitate to put many of these in a performance of my own.
Robin
INSPIRING FLUTE SOLOS
This captivating collection of 30 works for unaccompanied flute, offers refreshing and exhilarating repertoire for intermediate level flute players.
Be inspired as you discover scenes of natural beauty – starry skies, a dragonfly, bird songs; enjoy lively dances with elves and ghosts; and immerse yourself in music of tender reflection.
The collection features contemporary composers from around the world, with exclusively commissioned works, together with inspiring new arrangements of music by 19th and 20th century masters.
Biographies of composers and performance suggestions are included.
Free flute recordings for every piece can be found on YouTube at “theyoungfluteplayer” (no spaces) channel, see the playlist for Inspiring Flute Solos.
Inspiring music for flute players, and suitable for concert, exam, or eisteddfod performances.
Composers: Wendy Beardall-Norton, Johannes Brahms, Cécile Chaminade, Ansje De Groef, Ignacy Dobrzyński, Hans Engelmann, Emma Greenhill, Greg Harradine, Jolin Jiang, Elena Kats-Chernin, Fanny Mendelssohn, Merryl Neille, Suzanne Palmer-Holton, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jon Raybould, Gary Schocker, Ángel Villoldo.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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Contents: 30 pieces
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Standard: Intermediate level (some Advanced)
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Key signatures: up to two sharps and three flats
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Time signatures: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 12/8, 6/8, 5/8, 3/8 and mixed metre
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Pitch range: Middle C to Bb6 (top Bb)
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Techniques: Flutter tonguing, stamping, clapping (3 works)
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Size: 68pp
REVIEW
"I want to share with you about a couple of new publications for flute that I’ve bought and fallen in love with. One is a collection of 20 pieces for flute and piano (Lyrical Flute Legends), the other is a collection of 30 pieces for flute alone (Inspiring Flute Solos).
What is so tremendous is that the majority of the pieces in each collection are totally new! The editor, Karen North, has commissioned dozens of accomplished composers from around the world to compose pieces for these collections. I got actual goose bumps playing through some of the pieces, they are so beautiful! The pieces are of many diverse styles and are rich in complexity, color, and musicality.
Although both these books are designed for the an intermediate level flute player, don’t let that fool you. These don’t sound like “student pieces.” I wouldn’t hesitate to put many of these in a performance of my own, and I plan to introduce them to my adult students as well the kids." ROBIN HORNE (Flute List)
REVIEW (NFA The Flutist Quarterly)
This collection of 30 carefully curated and refreshingly original “inspiring solos” for the intermediate flutist are indeed inspiring to learn, teach, and perform, and are also perfectly suited to the early-intermediate to advanced-intermediate flutist. All are for unaccompanied flute and are a well-balanced treasure chest of teachable moments in term of styles, technique, musicality, articulation, meters, and early effects like fluttertonguing, stamping, and clapping. They represent a range of styles, including polka, tango, and other dance tunes as well as pieces with a jazzy feel, classical, folk, programmatic/character works, nocturne, arias, comical sketches.
A bonus: These pieces can be easily sight-read by the more advanced player and serve as unaccompanied pieces to play as background music or interspersed as part of a concert program. BJ NICOLETTI in The Flutist Quarterly Spring 2024
