THE MUSIC
When Claude Debussy wrote the short flute solo "Syrinx" in 1913, to the
drama "Psyché" by Gabriel Mourey, he initiated the development
of a new era for the flute. Before then only a few works of importance
had been written for flute solo - the Sonatas by Johann Sebastian and
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and the 12 Fantasies by Telemann. During the
19th century the flute had been associated with different pastoral connections,
and most compositions used the flute only as a simple melody instrument.
In Syrinx Debussy put timbre and dynamics in focus, and with the works by Varèse and Jolivet in the 30's, the flute entered and participated in the modernistic world of music.
In Sweden, members of the "Monday Group" wrote several flute solos during the 40's, in close collaboration with Swedish flutists, who also performed the pieces frequently. During the 50's we find solos by composers as Scelsi and Berio, and after 1967, the new flute techniques were developed, and works by Takemitsu and Ferneyhough used sounds which had never before been heard.
The music on the cd SOLO PER FLAUTO follows this development, with a focus on Swedish works from 1970 an onwards. The flautist Mats Möller has for two decades collaborated with many Swedish composers, and several of the works he has now recorded were written for him.
We also find two duos on the cd, Miklos Marós' CINGUETTIO for two flutes, written in 1995, and a duo for two bass flutes, FENG from 1997, written by Mats Möller's son Johannes, also a pupil of Maros.
CD 1
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[1] Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
LA FLÛTE DE PAN/SYRINX (1913) 2'22
[2] Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
DENSITY 21.5 (1936/46) 3'31
[3-7] André Jolivet (1905-74)
CINQ INCANTATIONS (1936) 17'23
[8-10] Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-94)
SONATA (1949) 11'37
[11] Giacinto Scelsi (1905-88)
PWYLL (1954) 3'35
[12] Luciano Berio (born 1925)
SEQUENZA (1958) 4'42
[13-15] Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985)
SONATA (1959/65) 13'48
[16] Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)
CASSANDRA'S DREAM SONG (1970) 7'19
[17] Toru Takemitsu (1930-96)
VOICE for solo flutist (1971) 6'36
[18] Jukka Tiensuu (born 1948)
CADENZA (1972) 4'12
CD 2
[1] Jan W Morthenson (born 1940)
DOWN (1972) 7'13
[2] Ebbe Grims-land (born 1915)
THEMA DES TAGES (I) (1977) 4'43
[3-6] Torsten Nilsson (1920-99)
DIE SCHÄFERIN, Sonata op 74 (1976-77) 14'13
[7] Karl-Erik Welin (1934-92)
SOLO PER FLAUTO (1983) 8'51
[8] Anders Eliasson (born 1947)
DISEGNO per flauto (1984) 7'37
[9] Stellan Sagvik (born 1952)
MATZAM (1984) 3'46
[10-13] Maurice Karkoff (born 1927)
SUITE op 168 (1989) 8'54
[14] Miklós Maros (born 1943)
CINGUETTIO per due flauti (1995) 7'00
+Stig Bengtson, flute
[15] Johannes V. Möller (born 1981)
FENG for two bass flutes (1997) 6'14
+Christina Sönstevold, bass flute
[16] TOCCATA (1998) 4'10
[17] Csaba Deák (born 1932)
FUVOLA (2000) 5'01
