Description
Les chants du rossignol, Op. 11 [The Songs of the Nightingale, Op. 11]
Altes, H.
From the publisher, Gerard Billaudot and the Jean-Louis Beaumadier collection, Henri Altes’ Les chants du rossignol (The Songs of the Nightingale) Opus 11 for flute and piano is beautifully presented here for piccolo and piano.
In three movements: Prelude, Chant d’amour (Love Song), and La plainte (The Complaint), Altes depicts the complexity and depth of a nightingale’s songs.
Altes demands utmost control in all registers, embouchure flexibility, clean articulation, and breath support, as well as exceptional technical facility through this nine-minute-long work.
Henri Altes was a prolific 19th-century French composer, flutist, and pedagogue.