Woodwind Solos and Duos

INDEX – click on an instrument:

Flute    Recorder    Oboe    Clarinet    Saxophone    Bassoon

FLUTE

CONCERT PIECES

Duologues (1980)
flute and piano   12 mins.  Grade 8+ standard

Rowardennan (2011)
solo flute     3 mins  Grade 8+ standard

EDUCATIONAL PIECES

Circus Skills (2001)
Eight pieces for flute and piano, Grades 3-5 standard

Fifty for Flute (1995)
50 progressive studies for solo flute, Grades 1 to 8 standard

Party Time! (1996)
17 very easy pieces for flute and piano: preliminary to Grade 1 standard

Streetwise Serenade (1997)
flute and piano  Grade 5

The Sight-reading Sourcebook (2003)
Solo flute, Grades 1-3

Alan Bullard has also arranged several pieces for flute and piano in the ABRSM 2018-2021 syllabus books.

RECORDER

CONCERT PIECES

Galloway Sketches – homage to Walter Carroll (1995)
Three pieces for recorder (treble doubling descant and optional garklein) and piano or guitar   8 mins: Grade 6-7

Hat Box (2003)
Eight pieces for recorder and piano or guitar  16 mins: Grade 7 approx.

John’s Jig (2004)
solo treble (or sopranino) recorder    2 mins: Grade 8 standard

Recipes (1989)
five pieces for descant recorder, and optional piano, or guitar, or string orchestra or string quartet 10 mins: Grade 4-7

Recorder Concerto (1995)
various recorders and piano or strings  10-11 mins. Grade 8+

Rondino (1995)
treble recorder and piano  3 mins.  about Grade 4 to 5 in standard

Siciliana (1974)
treble recorder and piano (or harpsichord)   4 mins: Grade 5-6

Sprightly Scherzo (1986)
two treble recorders   2 mins: Grade 5-6

Three Diversions (1983)
descant or tenor recorder and piano (or harpsichord)   6 mins: Grade 7

Winter Landscape (1992)
solo treble recorder   4 mins: Grade 8 standard

Alan Bullard has also arranged a number of pieces in Time Pieces for Recorder, vols. 1 and 2, descant and treble recorders (ABRSM). Here’s a performance of one, Spanish Ladies, from Book 1.

OBOE

CONCERT PIECES

Sonatina (1971)
oboe and piano: 8 mins, Grade 6-7 standard

EDUCATIONAL PIECES

Circus Skills (2001)
eight pieces for oboe and piano, Grade 3 to Grade 5 standard

CLARINET

CONCERT PIECES

Five Snapshots (1991)
two B flat clarinets      8 mins: Grade 7

Three Blues (1995)
clarinet (or alto sax) and piano   9 mins: Grade 6-7

Two hands to the pipe (1995)
clarinet and strings (or piano)  10 mins: Grade 8+

EDUCATIONAL

The Sight-reading Sourcebook for Clarinet (2003)
solo clarinet, grades 1-3

Circus Skills (2001)
Eight pieces for clarinet and piano, grades 3 to 5 standard

Alan Bullard has also arranged several pieces for clarinet and piano in the 2018-2021 ABRSM Clarinet syllabus books, including this one for Grade 2.

SAXOPHONE

CONCERT PIECES

Three Blues (1995)
Alto sax (or clarinet) and piano   9 mins: Grade 6-7

Sketches for Saxophone (2021)
Three pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano  c.10 minutes: Grade 7-8

Workout (1997)
Alto sax (or tenor sax) and piano    8 mins: Grade 8

EDUCATIONAL

Circus Skills (2001)
eight pieces for alto sax and piano,  Grade 3 to Grade 5 standard

Final Whistle (2017)
Alto Sax (or tenor sax) and piano (four pieces contributed by Alan Bullard, four by Chris Gumbley and four by James Rae): Grades 1-5

Sixty for Sax (2005)
Progressive studies for solo saxophone – Grades 1 to 8

Weekend (1993) 5 pieces for saxophone and piano
Alto Sax (or tenor sax) and piano    10 mins: Grade 4-5

Alan Bullard has also arranged several pieces for saxophone and piano in the ABRSM 2018-2021 syllabus books.

BASSOON

CONCERT PIECES

Hollytrees – At home with Mr and Mrs Round
Solo bassoon – duration variable

EDUCATIONAL

Blue Bassoon (1998)
bassoon and piano  2 mins: Grade 5