Romantic Music For Flute And Harp (Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Gluck, Massenet, Ravel, Debussy, etc)

The combination of flute and harp is one that is peculiarly satisfying, the one instrument a foil to the other. The eleven transcriptions recorded start with the Intermezzo from Bizet's Spanish opera Carmen, a realistic drama of love, jealousy and murder, set in Seville. The Intermezzo that serves as an entr'acte before Act III sets the scene as the gypsy smugglers climb to their stronghold in the mountains, ready for a new enterprise, joined by Carmen and the soldier, Don Jose, whom she has seduced. The Minuet (4) is a transcription drawn from Bizet's score for the melodrama L'Arlésienne, a collaboration with the writer Alphonse Daudet, but now better known as part of a suite drawn from the original work.