ACADEMIC SONATA NO 1. (for flute and piano) Op. 1
This work is the first of five ‘academic’ sonatas written for various instrumental groupings. The ‘Academic’ tag stems from the fact that these pieces were written when I was a composition student at Cardiff University during the late 70s.
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This particular work was first performed eighteen years later on July 21st 1995 by Roger and Rosalie Armstrong as part of the Gower Festival.
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In July 2006 Catherine Handley and Andrew Wilson-Dickson recorded the work for a CD called Ariel - a disc of works for flute and piano by Welsh composers.