Not Too Sweet: The Album

Brooklyn-based flutist Annie Wu’s latest classical album Not Too Sweet takes inspiration from the cheeky Chinese phrase for the perfect dessert. With a narrative, autobiographical approach, Wu includes early flute favorites, movie soundtracks from her childhood, and vocal arrangements exploring nostalgia and memory, for an album that gives listeners a taste of tunes made even sweeter by shadows of some more complicated flavors and sounds.

Collaborating with the Etymology Classics Label, which focuses on intimate classical recordings for a streaming audience, the Not Too Sweet album reached over 4 million streams across platforms after only 1 year.

The album also became the inspiring force behind Wu’s latest storytelling show, also named Not Too Sweet, which she toured in the 2025-2026 season.