Caprice for solo flute Op.4

Written in 1979 while the composer was a student at the Guildhall School of Music in London, and first performed by a fellow student, Philip Rowson, now co-principal piccolo with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Flautist Christopher Britton has also performed the work, and has described it as “posing a number of technical challenges to the flute player with its extraordinary athleticism. Even in the slower, more lyrical sections there is considerable flamboyance, rather in the style of Honegger’s Danse de la Chèvre”.