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As a confirmed Mozartian it is natural that Muller's concertos for Flute and Orchestra should follow the classical pattern and the E minor work published here for the first time since 1801 is an attractive and virtuoso piece in the less usual minor tonality. It is edited by Nikolai Jaeger and Christopher Hogwood with a useful introduction including points of performance practice drawn from Muller's Flute tutor. A Keyboard reduction of the Orchestral part is also available.

George Berg's eight keyboard suites Op. 5 were published in London around 1760 while the composer was travelling in Italy. They are his most varied and resourceful compositions following generally in the tradition of Handel's suites but adding stylistic elements culled from Italian German and French music in a playfully eclectic manner. This is sparkling idiomatic music suitable equally for private enjoyment and concert use but until now hardly known even to specialists in the keyboard repertoire.

La Libertà

La Libertà

Scheibe's three sonatas for flute (or violin) and obbligato harpsichord were published by Haffner in the late 1750's but were probably composed much earlier; they contain a significant quantity of elaborate imitative writing that is out of character with Scheibe's later music. Although rooted in the same tradition as the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord by J.S. Bach C.P.E Bach and composers at Berlin court of Frederick the Great these are more substantial works each having four movements in the traditional slow-fast-slow-fast scheme. For the most part they are trio sonatas the right hand of the harpsichord acting as the secondtreble voice but several movements feature idiomatic writing for the keyboard. Also interesting is the large amount of ornamentation called for particularly in the harpsichord part. While Scheibe disapproved of the excessive embellishments that Bach actually wrote into his melody lines these sonatas are nonetheless heavily ornamented albeit through the insertion of notational symbols; in addition to turns and mordents Scheibe uses no less than three different trill symbols!

The present sonata dedicated to Joseph Haydn is a model of classical clarity and Cramer exploits the full range and sonority of the fortepiano with exact indications of pedalling and dynamics. J.B. Cramer's Sonata In C Major for Piano dedicated to Joseph Haydn is a model of classical clarity and Cramer exploits the full range and sonority of the Fortepiano with exact indications of pedalling and dynamics.

The Cloak The Boat And The Shoes

Following the public success of the first set of Petites Pièces arranged from Mozart the Leipzig publishers Peters issued a second collection in 1804 drawing on the little-known repertoire of basset-horn trios and horn duos; three extracts from the choruses of Le Nozze di Figaro would have been the only material familiar to the general public. All the pieces were arranged with a clear eye to the amateur market with no great technical demands or wide stretches and where Mozart had left few dynamic markings the arranger carefully marked suitable and stylish expressive effects. This repertoire would be effective today on the modern piano the fortepiano or theclavichord. Contains Polonoise in D major ABRSM Grade 4 examination piece

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George Berg's eight keyboard suites Op. 5 were published in London around 1760 while the composer was travelling in Italy. They are his most varied and resourceful compositions following generally in the tradition of Handel's suites but adding stylistic elements culled from Italian German and French music in a playfully eclectic manner. This is sparkling idiomatic music suitable equally for private enjoyment and concert use but until now hardly known even to specialists in the keyboard repertoire.