Sonata for Flute and Piano Op. 23

Composed: 1989

Duration: 6 minutes

First Performance: March 1999, by Timothy Kipling (Flute) and Mark Packwood (Piano) at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester

Lento  Andante  Tempo

Allegro  Andante  Allegro

Cast in two movements, the first is plaintive in mood and contrasts an initial melodic idea, passed between flute and piano, with a more bleak and austere melody, accompanied by dramatic chords in the piano. After a slightly more affirmative section the chordal accompaniment returns, heralding a canonic restatement of its main melodic idea.

The second movement, in contrast, begins solidly in the key of C Major, with scalic figures in both instruments. This heralds the movement's first subject, a diatonic melody accompanied by a highly syncopated idea of the piano. The second subject is more lyrical and passionate and leads, via a short cadenza for piano, to a fugato section.

After the 'recapitulation' of the movement's first and second subjects, the work ends in a flourish with the flute and piano vying the final word. The work is dedicated to the flautist Timothy Kipling.