Are you sure it would? You've come a long way on piano since then, and have played some pretty hard stuff. The fact that you've entered piano competitions should speak for itself. What may have seemed fiendishly difficult then, should seem almost sight-readable now.

I would recommend Barber's Canzone Op 38a (originally called Elegy, and recycled into the slow movement of his piano concerto). Short and sweet, the piano part is not too difficult, but harder than it looks, and as a flute piece someone told me it's on the grade 7 list.
No, no! Don't say that!

Just before even thinking of this thread a flute and piano duo started taking place in my head. A lovely melancholy piece, even in the fast sections, as only he couid achieve. Then I realised that he is one of your favourite composers too. Have yiu thought of Poulenc's sonata for flute and piano?

Couperin has no music for the recorder and by recorder I do not mean one of those cheap, plastic soprano ones which play microtones and that, when manipulated by a bunch of unmusical five-year olds, makes you long for the old days, when good King Herod held sway, but a good contralto, made of wood and finely tuned. Not many people play that one and those who do play it well. Think of Michala Petri and Hans-Matin Linde. I used to have a lot of scores for duet, but most were photocopies, so I scrapped them. I do, however, have some ones that I bought and these include some for recorder and guitar. I have Handel, Telemann, Veracini (a Florentine composer), Pupusch (Of Beggar's Opera fame), Corelli Loeillet and Fiocco (Flake!). Admittedly the piano repertoire is more exiting!

Good point, Rainer. I never really looked at the piano part when I was learning the flute part. I just remember thinking that the piano part sounded as hard as the flute part and that my father arranged for someone he knew (a very good pianist) to be my accompanist.

Richard - yes, I have played the Poulenc flute sonata. Maybe that's the one I'm thinking about having the hard piano part. Or it could be a Faure flute piece I also played for competition...or a Bach piece....I can't remember which one right now. I've got all the music in a closet or a box at home somewhere....

There is a very lovely Nielsen piece, though for flute and harp.

I don't know how to play the harp....

It might be possible on the piano, though.

Oh yes.....maybe I can climb inside my grand and play the strings..I mean harp. That would be another interesting project.

Bach wrote for the harpsichord and yet we play him on the piano. Maybe I know little about harps.

I was just kidding....haha
The strings inside a piano, the whole configuration, is really called the harp.
I don't know anything about a real harp, either.

I found the piece arranged for piano, by the way.

That's okay, I would rather play something I know.
I remember when I was young I played a Mozart flute/piano piece that wasn't too hard. It had a nice, pretty melody. However, it went into the high notes, which I don't like anymore. Maybe I should really start playing the tuba!

Seriously though.... I'll have to keep up my embouchure until Christmas - that's when my family plays music together. But after that I will most likely put my flute away for another year.

Try the alto flute. I believe Ravel has somethinf for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ijg2D4 ... ure=relmfu

Or even better: the bass flute! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fffxjO ... ature=plcp

Or the Magic Flute

That's very neat! I didn't know there were flutes like that!! It sure would be nice play low notes for a change. Except, I can't afford another new instrument now. It cost me $300 to get my flute refurbished and I'm hoping to go on another European trip someday....
Thanks for this information, though.

Hi Monica,
I always figured you for having dissociative personality disorder (aka split-personality DO)! This was very fun to listen to, and, I suspect, to make. I have always thought that the ensemble of piano and flute is an excellent one. Did it take much time to get your embouchure back?