Martin: Ballade

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Practice version (optional)

These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Frank Martin wrote his Ballade for flute and piano in 1939 as an audition piece. It is a virtuosic work for both instruments, and has become a staple work in the flute repertoire.

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3 crotchet click-beats at beginning to indicate pulse.

Bar 154 (Cadenza): 6 seconds of silence in the piano part followed by 6 crotchet click-beats before Lento section begins in bar 194.

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This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.