Respighi, Faure, Franck - Alter Ego: Music for Flute and Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96977
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 25th August 2023
Contents
Works
Violin Sonata no.1 in A major, op.13 (trans. for flute)Violin Sonata in A major (arr. for flute)
Pieces (5) for violin and piano, P62 (arr. for flute)
Artists
Rebecca Taio (flute)Marco Grisanti (piano)
Works
Violin Sonata no.1 in A major, op.13 (trans. for flute)Violin Sonata in A major (arr. for flute)
Pieces (5) for violin and piano, P62 (arr. for flute)
Artists
Rebecca Taio (flute)Marco Grisanti (piano)
About
The technical challenges of transcriptions from violin to flute should not be underestimated. While it might seem as though the flute’s keys would make some aspects related to intonation ‘easier’ on the flute, there are difficulties of other kinds, such as playing loudly and with a full tone in the lower register or playing very high notes that fade away to nothing. But this was the whole point: to challenge the intrinsic identity of the instrument and to transcend its customary role. And so, by way of this repertoire, the expressive capabilities of the flute can be further explored.
While the transcription of the Five Pieces by Respighi is a first (no-one having thought to arrange them for flute and piano before), the sonatas by Fauré and Franck are already a part of the chamber tradition for flute and piano. Nonetheless, the artists have made further revisions to these two works, coming up with alternative solutions to the ones normally used in such a way as to be as close as possible to the originals.
The 5 Pezzi hail from a period when Respighi was defining his style, poised between modernity and a pull towards the past. The titles he gave them are richly allusive (Romanza, Aubade, Madrigale, Berceuse, Humoresque), pointing to a range of different moods and atmospheres and imbued with that ‘Latin sweetness of idiom’ (to quote Adriano Lualdi) that is such a feature of this composer’s remarkable musical language.
Fauré’s Sonata in A major for violin and piano, op.13 (1877), offers a dazzling display of rippling arpeggios and scalar activity interspersed with passages of intensely sweet and expressive melancholy shot through with flashes of brilliance, from the opening Allegro molto right up to the heartfelt declamatory verve of the concluding Allegro quasi presto. It is an iconic piece among the works of Fauré, who was one of the key players in the revival of French instrumental music that had been set in motion in 1871 by the Société nationale de musique. The Société’s motto ‘ars gallica’ was also readily heeded by Fauré’s colleague César Franck.
Franck’s Sonata in A major for violin and piano (1886) creates the ideal end-piece for this musical journey. A masterpiece of ‘Cartesian’ clarity and dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe, the Sonata is one of the key works from Franck’s compositional maturity and is pervaded by an ‘algorithmic poetry’ in its carefully planned and grandiose architecture – underpinned by the cyclical form that lends it its unique structural power – in which a sense of calm and meditative intimacy pulsating with boundless emotion is perfectly married with a nervous restlessness propelled along by an all-pervading rhythmic impetus.
Rebecca Taio is a highly talented Italian flutist. She studied with Raffaele Trevisani and Patrick Gallois and participated in masterclasses by Barthold Kuijken and James Galway among others. Her first album for Brilliant Classics, titled ‘Undine’ (96695) received remarkable reviews in the international press. On this new recording her piano partner is the excellent Marco Grisanti.
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