With background notes and performance suggestions, Martin Tourish introduces musicians to the world of Celtic music. The selected pieces span three centuries of music-making in Ireland, Scotland, Wales,

James Rae provides 18 performance opportunities for very beginning flute. The first piece, Opening Fanfare, is built upon a single note with few notes introduced in successive pieces in standard

18 very easy pieces are designed to "take the younger beginner from day one to grade one," as Rae says. In fact, the very first piece, Opening Fanfare, uses a single note, focusing instead on

 It is a testament to Rae’s craft that he can compose a dozen pieces for beginning clarinetists and

For the clarinettist of intermediate skills, Rae has chosen 10 works from Brahms as an introduction to this important composer. Classic pieces such as May Night, Cradle Song, Love Song and

Fereshteh Rahbari continues his presentation of flute repertoire with Duos 1, 25 easy to intermediate duets from Handel and Haydn to Bartok and modern day composers. Flutists of moderate skills

Arranger Gisler-Haase finds that vocal music often lends itself well to the flute, since both are breath-dependent. For pedagogic use in flute ensemble classes, she turns to choral music of the Renaissance

The successor to My First Play-Alongs for Flute, Easy Play-Alongs for flute offers 16 approachable arrangements in easy to moderately difficult levels, with the opportunity to listen, then

The virtuosic Carmen Fantasy is well known to flutists as an artistic mountain to climb. Demanding of a range of polished skills, the Fantaisie brilliante uses excerpts from Bizet's

To aid his students, and flutists generally, Wiese has compiled a list of the usual audition excerpts along with some not normally required. He has pulled from a variety of sources - from required

An introduction to the wonderful music of Italy in arrangements for students of intermediate skills. With so much great Italian music, Zamarin chose many of the immediately recognizable melodies from

Losch adds the five original works in a selection of traditional Klezmer tunes in an album for intermediate level flutists. Klezmer Flute Duets is an excellent starting point to introduce this

Arvo Pärt's Mozart-Adagio (1992) was composed for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio on commission by the Helsinki Festival, where it was premiered. The piece is in memory of Oleg Kagan, who was a

Gisler-Haase has chosen 21 pieces from the great classical repertoire of Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mozart, Schubert, and more, and offers the opportunity to play along with the included CD accompaniment. The

Something quite a bit different from the usual Christmas program fare, Bartok's collection of Romanian Christmas Carols springs from his lifelong fascination with folk music of the region.

The second volume of Universal Editions distillation of Warttmann's arrangements from 1981 is devoted to songs from the Winter season and for Christmas. unlike the usual carols and hymns, these are folk

Warttmann had arranged a good amount of folk music for recorder quartet, with the idea of allowing beginners to play in ensembles with more advanced performers on the lower instruments. In 1981 Universal

A wonderful performance piece constructed around a constant pulsating A. Dehnard, author of The New Flute, casts his flute part in eerie, ethereal forms, using wind, singing, and open hole