Music recommendations, please

She should definitely look at the Mozart Concerto K314. It is studied, performed and recorded for both oboe and flute. She can therefore play it both ways. There are many recordings available by both instruments. There are two other Flute Concertos as well that you can usually get on the same CD (K313 and K315).

Give her a print out of these adobe format papers from the University of Colorado for some background.

http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL23/5_K314.pdf

http://idrs.colorado.edu/publications/journal/jnl24/cadenza.pdf

Sheet music at: http://www.bookmarkmusic.com/toc/816-60004.html#Concertos

There is also Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp which is just wonderful.

If you have a Tower Records, Borders, Barnes & Noble, there may be separate flute sections for James Galway and Jean Pierre Ramphal in many music styles. A fine Oboe player is Heinz Holliger. Mr. Ramphal also played a little jazz on the side.

If the daughter would like a little "pop" music as well, Tim Weisberg features the flute. He did some solo, and a couple with Dan Fogelberg also.

Debussy wrote two wonderful chamber pieces for flute: the Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, and the Syrinx for Solo Flute. Both appear on:

Athena Ensemble: Debussy Chamber Music (Chandos CHAN-8385)

Of course, most of this CD is not flute music, but any flute student should know these two pieces, especially the Syrinx.

Emmanuel Pahud with the Berlin Baroque Soloists performing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 5, on the EMI Label is excellent in its' perfomance and recording quality. On the Chesky Records label, Mozart's The Flute Quartets, and Quartet for Oboe and Strings, featuring Gary Schocker(flute) and the Chester String Quartet is also very good (soundstaging is excellent). For something different, Carlos Nakai plays a Native American Flute and has numerous excellent sounding cds of Native American music as well as new age/world music.

How can anyone mention the Flute and not think of Ian Anderson : )

Actually, he has a VERY nice disc out entitled "Divinities: Twelve Dances With God". It is NOTHING like Jethro Tull, so get that out of your head right now.

Besides being an excellent recording ( i use a specific cut when demo'ing gear to check out soundstaging and image capabilities ), the music is very nice and somewhat varied. Kind of hard to categorize, but probably closest to "new age". Various tempo's and instrumentation, but of course it is quite Flute heavy. No vocals what-so-ever as it is an instrumental disc from top to bottom.

Check it out. If her daughter doesn't like it, you can always enjoy it : ) Sean
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