Miscellany for Flute and Harp

Megan Reeve

Megan Reeve has performed professionally on the harp for over twenty years. She holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts, and Cardiff University, Wales, spanning performance and music’s place in culture and politics.

Kathryn Moorhead

Kathryn Moorhead is an Australian flautist based in Adelaide, where she teaches flute at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music and the Open Music Academy, and freelances as an orchestral and chamber musician.

Colin Brumby

Colin Brumby (1933–2018) was an Australian composer and conductor whose prolific catalogue ranges across opera, concertos, chamber music, choral works and songs.

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was a French composer, pianist, organist and teacher whose music links late Romanticism with early modernism. His best-known works include the Requiem, the Pavane, and a large body of songs and piano music.

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck stripped opera of empty display and put drama first. His reform works, from Orfeo ed Euridice to Iphigénie en Tauride, fuse Italian melody with French theatrical force in music of noble simplicity and human passion.

Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla turned the tango into something sharper, more restless and chamber-like. His nuevo tango draws jazz harmony and classical counterpoint into the dance without blunting its edge.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His ballets, concertos and orchestral works remain among the most widely performed music in the classical repertoire.

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught, he became a composer against his family's wishes and ranked among the leading German musicians of his age.

Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet wrote French Romantic opera that still lives through melody and theatrical colour. Carmen’s street energy and fatal passion, and the lyric duets of Les pêcheurs de perles, are the scores most often heard today.

John Carmichael

John Carmichael writes melodic, neo-Romantic music coloured by Spanish folk idiom and French influence. The piano sits at the centre of his catalogue, which also reaches concertos and chamber works for winds.

Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Godard wrote Romantic operas, songs and chamber music in a lyrical vein close to Mendelssohn and Schumann. The Berceuse from his opera Jocelyn remains his best-known piece, and his smaller works travel easily to flute, harp and the salon.

Jacques Ibert

Ibert's scores favour clarity, colour and a light touch. His chamber miniatures, including the well-loved Entr'acte, bring French wit and classical poise to flute, harp, guitar and solo cello.

Josef Molnar

Carl Nielsen

Carl Nielsen’s music moves with rhythmic drive and clear, singing lines that keep shifting key underfoot. From the youthful Violin Sonata to spare organ preludes and the folk-tinged miniatures of The Mother, the writing feels vital, open-air and unmistakably his.

Maria Theresia von Paradis

The Sicilienne long ascribed to Maria Theresia von Paradis remains a quiet fixture of the violin encore repertoire: a cantabile salon piece that, in the familiar Dushkin arrangement, asks for charm, purity of tone and unforced elegance.

Photography

Alison Sharma