Each month we shall be introducing you to a new composers or piece of repertoire to help you develop oyur musical library of repertoire This month we shall celebrate Sir John Rutter as he celebrates his 80th Birthday.

One of Rutter's most popular orchestral works, Suite Antique, has become an important standard in contemporary flute repertoire and been recorded several times by Rutter and others.  It has six movements; Prelude, Ostinato, Aria, Waltz, Chanson and Rondeau.

Over the years, many of my students have performed this beautiful piece, and totally taken my breath away with their beautiful rendition of this very lyrical piece.   The slow movement in particular is so lyrical and allows us to  use our colours, dynamics and smoothness of finger movement. 

As a student, I was not so familiar with this piece during my years of early study. I have come to love this piece and include it as part of my standard repertoire. I hope you will add this into your library and enjoy it as much as I do.

Many of the movements can also be performed on their own our as a sequence which we shall also discuss.

Exercises:

Tone - Moyse- De La Sonorité , pg 9- ascending notes 

Technique - Taffanel and Gaubert EJ4 -Tonguing & different articulation on Scales: including single and double

No etude this session as we study the Rutter Suite Antique in its form and harmonic beauty.