Agenda Mia Dreese’s repertoire contains music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Beside well known pieces from the flute repertoire she has searched for and mastered less known but surprising works for flute. These are solo pieces, pieces for flute with piano or harpsichord accompaniment, for flute with harp or guitar and other chamber music groups. She always tries to find special connections between pieces in a concert programme.

Programme 1:

The Incredible Journey
Flutes From The 15th Century To The Present

For ages people have played flutes that were made of hollow bone, reed or cane or pipes made of wood or stone.
Since the 18th century the flute was subject to major changes to meet the musical taste of the time. The shape of the pipe and holes changed and keys were added. The simple flute developed from a natural pipe to a sophisticated and scientifically designed wind instrument. Of all musical instruments the flute has probably changed and improved the most due to the technical and social changes of the 18th, 19th  and 20th centuries.

Musical taste and preferences in performance have also changed with time and place. Various tools of expression like timbre, dynamics, velocity, vibrato, embellishments, tonality and power of tone have changed to new ‘languages’ in different times and countries.

Each piece in the concert will be played on the authentic flute used at the time of composition. Flutes from all major stages of development will be presented, which makes it possible to distinguish the various flutes and their special sound that was typical for its time.
While talking and playing Mia Dreese takes her audience along on her travels through many centuries of flute music.

Programme flute and piano:

Mia Dreese flute and Marjes Benoist piano

From the repertoire:

J. Haydn (1732-1809)                    12 Pieces for the Musical Clock

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)              Sonata B flat KV 378 orig. vn/pf

L. van Beethoven (1770-1827)      Serenade op. 41

J.W. Wilms (1772-1847)                Sonata op. 18 nr. 1 D gr

F.X. Mozart (1791-1844)                Rondo e minor

Fr. Schubert (1797-1828)              Sonata a-moll 'Arpeggione'

G. Donizetti (1797-1848)               Sonata

R. Schumann (1810–1856)            3 Romances op. 94

C. Reinecke (1824-1910)               Sonata Undine op. 167  

M. Moussorgsky (1839-1881)        Hebrew Song (altoflute)

Fr. Borne (1840-1920)                   Carmen-Fantasie

A. Dufau (?)                                    Andante et Mazurka

P. Dukas (1865-1935)                    La plainte, au loin, du Faune

P. Ben-Haim (1897-1984)              Three Songs without Words

Ph. Gaubert (1879-1941)               Fantaisie

J. Engel (1924-1991)                      Prelude and Dance

P. Schoenfield (1947)                    Achat Sha’alti (Psalm 27.4)  

Fr. Kuhlau (1786-1832)             Trio op. 119 (2 fl/pf)

Fr. Doppler (1821-1883)      Andante et Rondo op. 25 (2 fl/pf)

Lectures:

'Play as a modern Quantz'

'A Tribute to Frans Vester, Musician, Scholar, Author'

Information: m.dreese@hccnet.nl

AGENDA