Rebecca Schifilliti, flute. Program Bartók (1881-1945) Suite paysanne hongroise Gaubert (1879-1941) Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando Dutiellux (1916-2013) Sonatine for flute and piano C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788) Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22 Bizet (1838-1875) Carmen Fantasy About the Program The Suite Paysanne Hongroise is an arrangement of music by Béla Bartók, by Paul Arma. The suite consists of folk song arrangements originally written for piano, and was transcribed for flute and piano. Philippe Gaubert was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opéra, he was appointed in 1919, at the age of forty, the Principal conductor of the Paris Opéra and Principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. Through the later half of the 18th century, the reputation of Bach stood very high. Haydn and Beethoven admired him and "avidly" collected his music. Georges Bizet was a composer of the Romantic Era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
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