Word: flute
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...inoffensive. The style draws on composers as disparate as Berg, Barber and William Schuman; there are also a few easily recognizable major triads. It is an odd work in some ways, since Mr. Stewart contrasts tense, massive climaxes with passages that are almost flip--the sly fillip of the flute at the very end, for instance. The opening is very attractive, with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction...
...Vivaldi: Concerto #2 in G minor for flute (D); Schumann: Fantasiestucke (RCA); Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" (V) Copeland: Quiet City (Per); Liszt: Preludes...
...Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K. 287 (V); Prokoviev: Prodigal Son (Vx); Handel: Sonata for Flute and Continuo, Op. 1 #7 (D); Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (Vx); Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (L); Adam: Giselle; Vivaldi: Concerto in G major for two 'Celli and orchestra...
...Gluck: Concerto in G Major for Flute and Orchestra; Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D; Dvorak: Symphony #5 in E Minor. Op. 95; Gabrieli: Canzonas for Brass Choirs; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture...
...Kallinikoff-Symphony #2 in A minor (Per); Bach-Chromatic Fantasy & Fuge in D minor (Per); Pergolesi-Stabat Mater (D); Mozart-Quartet #14 in G major (C); Bernstein-Age of Anxiety (C); Handel-Trio Sonata in E for Flute, Violin, Bassoon, Harpsichord (HSLP...