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

These challenging and unusual concert pieces for the more advanced violinist have been performed with great success by Aleksey Igudesman himself. Recordings of Fasten Seat Belts are available from

A concert work of decidedly Latin flavor, Cornick's Three Latin Sketches is a three-movement affair in which the up-tempo outer movements embrace a sultry tango middle movement. For advanced

Written for a master clarinetist "down under," Rae's concert work Two Antipodean Sketches are two movements of opposite sounds. Cloudy Bay begins the work in a dreamy, reflective fashion,