BGS Presents ...

Codrescu Buer Flute-Guitar Duo

August 25, 2025

A Souvenir, a Sonatina and Some Sambas

Carol Codrescu on flute and Adam Buer on guitar formed a duo in 2013 to explore the rich range of repertoire for flute and guitar. They are particularly interested in Latin American and early music. The duo will perform the Oriental Souvenir by Costa, the Sonatina by Tedesco and Popular Brazilian Music by Machado.

Program:

• Souvenir d’Orient, Op.12 (c. 1832) by Onorato Costa (fl.1818-1832)
• Sonatina, Op.205 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
  • Allegretto gazioso
  • Tempo di Siciliana
  • Scherzo - Rondo
• Brazilian Folk Music, arranged by Celso Machado (1953-)
  • Quebra queixo (choro)
  • Pacoca (choro)
  • Piazza vittorio (choro maxixe)
  • Algodao doce (samba)
  • Sambossa (bassa nova)
  • Pe de moleque (samba choro)

Open Stage Education Time:

• DanielP
  • The Black Cockatoo Flying Alone, by Richard Charlton (2008)
• JeffO
  • his arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de Lune (1905)
    from this month’s sightreading handout
• LudoM
  • El testament d’Amelia, by Miguel Llobet (1900)
  • Sonata in A major, K.113, by Domenico Scarlatti (1752)
• MartinT
  • Evocacion, by Jose Luis Merlin (2000)
  • Gymnopédie No. 1, by Erik Satie (1888)
  • Adagio in G minor, by Remo Giazotto (1958)
    often misattributed to Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)