Modern Wind Music: Flute

Forsyth's Modern Wind Music series contains exciting and challenging, but not unduly difficult, works by talented English composers of current or recent vintage for recital, study or recreation. Each volume includes three works with piano, one unaccompanied piece, and one piece for two or more players of the instrument. This volume for flute has a natural history slant. Lacerta Agilis by Duncan Druce is a portrait of a sand lizard, Michael Ball's piece takes as its cue the Greek legend of Philomel who was turned into a nightingale to escape the Wrath of Tereus, whilst Edward Cowie's A Lesson For Reed Warblers (for two flutes) is designed for one bird (or flute) to teach the other to sing. The magical solo work in the album is Two Spells by Peter Recine Fricker, and the remaining piece is Nicholas Marshall's rhythmic and jazz-influenced Jump.

Contents

• Jump by Nicholas Marshall
• Lacerta Agilis by Duncan Druce
• Philomel by Michael Ball
• Two Spells by Peter Racine Fricker
• A Lesson For Reed Warblers by Edward Cowie (Flute Duet)