Flute concerto
A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Some major composers have contributed to the flute concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Mozart and Vivaldi.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the modern-day flute concerto has occasionally been structured in four or more movements. In some flute concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the flute is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra.
Selected repertoire
[edit ]Baroque
[edit ]- Concerto in A minor
- Concerto in C major, Op. 7, No. 3 (also for violin or oboe solo)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (attributed)
- Flute Concerto in G major
- Flute Concerto in D major
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773) – author of over 300 concertos for the flute.
- Concerto in G major
- Concerto in C minor
- Concerto in F major
- Concerto in F major for Flute (La Tempesta di Mare), RV 433 (Op. 10, No. 1), RV 98 and RV 570
- Concerto in G minor for Flute (La Notte), RV 439 (Op. 10, No. 2)
- Concerto in D major for Flute (Il Gardellino), RV 428 (Op. 10 No. 3)
- Concerto in G major for Flute, RV 435 (Op. 10, No. 4)
- Concerto in F major for Flute, RV 434 (Op. 10, No. 5)
- Concerto in G major for Flute, RV 437 (Op. 10, No. 6)
- Concerto in A minor for Flute, RV 440
- Concerto in D major for Flute, RV 429
- Concerto in C major for 2 Flutes, RV 533
- Concerto in D major for Flute, RV 783
Classical
[edit ]C.P.E. Bach (1714–1788)
- Flute Concerto in D major
- Flute Concerto in G major H.445 (Wq.169)
- Flute Concerto in D minor H.426
- Flute Concerto in A major H.438 (Wq.168)
- Flute concerto in A minor Wq.166
- Flute concerto in B flat major Wq 167
Franz Benda (1709–1786)
- Concerto in G minor
- Concerto in A minor
- Concerto for Two Flutes in G Major (1783)
- Concerto No. 1 in G major
- Concerto No. 2 in D minor
- Concerto No. 3 in D minor
- Concerto No. 4 in D major
- Concerto No. 1 in D major
- Concerto No. 2 in D major
- Concerto No. 3 in G major
- Concerto No. 4 in G major
- Concerto No. 5 in G major
- Concerto No. 6 in D major
- Concerto No. 7 in E minor
- Concerto No. 8 in G major
- Concerto No. 9 in E minor
- Concerto No. 10 in D major
- Concerto No. 11 in B minor
- Concerto No. 12 in A major
Frederick the Great (1712–1786)
- 4 concertos for flute and strings
Christoph Willibald Gluck (attributed)
- Concerto in G major
- Flute Concerto in D major (lost)
- Flute Concerto in D major (previously attributed to Haydn)
- Flute Concerto D major
- Flute Concerto Op.86
- Flute Concerto in D minor
- Concerto in D minor for Flute and Orchestra
- Flute Concerto in G major
- Concerto for Flute and Harp
- Flute Concerto No. 1
- Flute Concerto No. 2 – originally written as an Oboe Concerto but now also firmly part of the flute repertoire.
- Flute Concerto
- Flute Concerto in G major
- Flute Concerto in C major
- Flute Concerto in F major
- Flute Concerto in D Major (Boccherini, Op. 27)
- Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra (1774)
- Concertino da camera for Flute and Strings (1777)
- Concerto in G major
- Flute Concerto No. 1 in D minor
- Flute Concerto No. 2 in D minor
Romantic
[edit ]- Flute Concerto (Symphonic Tale)
- Carmen Fantasie Brillante
- Flute Concerto in F minor
- Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107
- Concertino for Flute and Chamber Orchestra in C minor (1819)
- Concertino for Flute and Orchestra in C major
- Concertino for Flute and Orchestra in D major
- Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra
- Concerto in D major
- Concerto in E major
- Concerto in E minor
- Concerto in F major (2 movements)
- Concerto in D major, Op. 283 (1908)
- Concertino in D major for Flute and Orchestra
- Concerto in B minor 0202 2000 Strings
Modern
[edit ]- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1977)
- Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra (Shadows V). (1999)
- Concerto for Flute and Strings
- Flute Concerto No. 2
- Flute Concerto
- Flute Concerto (2000)
Flint Juventino Beppe
- Flute Mystery Op.66 a/b (Alto flute / C flute)
- Flute Concerto No.1 Op.70
- Flute Concerto No.2 Op.80
- Ḥalil, nocturne for flute, percussion, and strings
- Concerto for Flute and Strings
- ...explosante-fixe..., for MIDI-flute, chamber orchestra and electronics (1972–1993)
- Concerto for flute solo with flute orchestra Ghosts & Gargoyles (2002)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra: Phoenix Concerto 2222–4331 perc, harp, string, timpani
- Flute Concerto (2008)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra: Pied Piper Fantasy
- Flute Concerto (2006)
- Flute Concerto Trail Of Tears (2010)
- Flute Concerto (1975)
- Concerto for flute and string orchestra Galim (1998)
- Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
- Flute Concerto (1954)
- Flute and Orchestra (1978)
- Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and String Orchestra
- Renaissance Concerto (1985) for Flute and Orchestra
- Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra
- Flute Concerto (1967)
- Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (2012) ([1])
- The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair – Flute Concerto
- Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion – Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 8
- Poem for Flute and Orchestra (1918)
- Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra. On the Back of a Nightingale, Op. 31 (2012)
- Slow Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra. A Promise to Frida, Op. 84 (2021)
- Serenade for Solo Flute, Harp and String Orchestra
- Concerto for flute and orchestra, Catacombs (1999–2000)
- Concerto pour flûte
- Flute Concerto No. 1 (1975–6)
- Flute Concerto No. 2 (1981–2)
- Symphony no 36, Op. 312 for Flute and Orchestra (1978)
- Flute Concerto (1934)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1977)
- Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra op.1
- Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra op.2
- Concerto (1949)
- Ninna Nanna Per Anna (2008), for solo flute & strings
- Flute Concerto (2015)
- Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra – an arrangement of his Violin Concerto in D minor
- Het Lam Gods II, for solo flute and flute orchestra (2007)
- Les quatre elements, concerto for flute, children choir and percussions (2005)
- And then there was the sun in the sky, concerto for flute, digeridoo and flute orchestra (2000)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra Op.39 (1992)
- Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra Op.48 (1995)
- Double Concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
- Concertino for Flute, Strings and Percussion (1945)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1983)
- Concert à quatre ("Quadruple concerto"), for piano, flute, oboe, cello and orchestra (1990–91)
- Liongate for Flute and Orchestra
- Flute Concerto (1926)
- Flute Concerto (1992)
- Summer Nocturne for Flute and Orchestra (1988)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1971)
- Le Souffle d'Iris (1986)
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (2013)
- Flute Concerto Dances with the Winds
- Flute Concerto
- Concierto pastoral, for flute and orchestra (1978)
- Flute Concerto (2002)
- Flute Concerto (1993)
- Flute Concerto Aile du songe (2001)
- Flute Concerto Harlekiini, Op. 70 (1995)
- Flute Concerto (1984)
- Concerto for Flute and Strings
- Waking Dream for Flute and Orchestra (2009)
- Flute Concerto (2011)
- Ruah (1987)
- Flute Concerto (1993)
- Concerto for 2 Flutes (2003)
- Toward the Sea II, for alto flute, harp, and string orchestra
- Concerto for Flute & Chamber Orchestra (1976)
- Flute Concerto (1989)
- Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion (Pulitzer Prize winner 1999)
- Flute Concerto No. 1, op. 75 (1961)
- Flute Concerto No. 2, op. 148 (1987)
- Flute Concerto
- Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1969)
- Chamber Concerto for Flute and 10 Players
- Flute Concerto
- Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1989)
- Concerto Elegia for Flute and Strings (2015)