Flute / Guitar Duet
 

Does anyone know of any decent classical guitar / flute duets?

What, like Stairway to Heaven?

I can't think of any original flute/guitar compositions but I know of a book that has a selection of beautiful arrangements for flute and classical guitar. It may not be what you're looking for exactly, but you might want to check it out anyways :)

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CLASSICAL MELODIES FOR FLUTE AND GUITAR - Elderly Instruments

It's interesting you ask this, because just a couple days ago my dad heard a duet he really loved at a concert. The piece, by Astor Piazzolla, was played by flute and classical guitar...although the music is modern, since Piazzolla lived in the 1990s and composed mostly tangos using a lot of counterpoint and dissonance, it appears: Ástor Piazzolla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Burning Down, have you ever played any compositions by Piazzolla? This piece is very playful and light.

"Bordel 1900 - Tango" by Astor Piazzolla for Flute and Guitar:

Flute / Guitar duets?! Well, err, okay :p:.

Villa-lobos composed many a guitar piece (of course!), but there are a couple of ones with flutes as well -

YouTube - Kaori Fujii & Eric Cecil: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, H. Villa-Lobos

Pavane (op. 50) by Gabriel Faure can feature a guitar/flute too -

YouTube - Pavane op. 50 Gabriel Fauré

I'm pretty sure there are a couple of Bach pieces as well, but my brain doesn't seem to remember at this moment :\.

Hi, nice piece! I love Piazzolla's south american & modern flavour and this was no exception. A pretty clean recording too, I must say.

I thought so, too! I'd never heard it before this week. Do you play flute or guitar? I wouldn't think many average non-flute or non-guitar people would be able to come up with some flute/guitar songs like you did so quickly!

Hi

No not really. I can play the guitar to a certain extent, but its more-so a hobby. Never really tried anything professional. Having said that, most of my information comes from books - and I do have a compulsive behavior to buy many classical cds at a time.

Anyways, here's a Rodrigo piece as well :) -

YouTube - Rodrigo: Serenata al Alba del DÃ*a

Not the best recording though (I suppose it was recorded by one in the audience).

A beautiful, restful piece, this first one! And the second flute-guitar duet is gentle and somber.

Being a compulsive classical cd buyer would explain your familiarity with this lovely music! :) I had heard none of it before, so I enjoyed listening, especially since I have a flute and have been meaning to practice to learn to play better.

What would be your favorite flute piece/passage amongst all of classical music? (sorry for the sidebar, but thought I'd take a moment since the original poster hasn't replied back yet :p:)

Oh rondo, I'm afraid I can't answer that because my familiarity with classical flute pieces is so limited...and I can't remember names of pieces or composers well, either. :(

My knowledge of classical music is mostly limited to music I play in an orchestra as a violin player. I have shreds of flute passages floating through my head, but I can't remember what piece they were in or who composed them!

I hope Burning Down or someone else who is very knowledgeable about classical music will be able to give you a good opinion, because I wish I could! Your question is an interesting one.

I do like the flute (and violin!) passages in Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun very much, though! :D (I *had* actually heard that piece before listening to it again in your Impressionistic music thread.)

Maybe I'll cheat and ask my dad what HIS favorite flute pieces/passages are...he may remember many more than I do! I'll also try listening to some of the ones Burning Down mentions earlier.