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Spiritus explores the Dauist philosophy that one's physical self is an important component of one's spiritual self. The work also examines breathing as a spiritual idea, wherein inhalation and exhalation are two contrasting ideas that are equally essential to making the whole.
The vocal and flute drones represent the inhalation; the microtonal scales that follow these gestures represent the exhalation. Source: a conversation with the composer |
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Laconisme de l'aile, by Kaija Saariaho
Recorded March 6, 2020
Recorded March 6, 2020
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Of Laconisme de l'aile, Ms. Saariaho writes...
"The possibility to move from secret whispers into clear, beautiful and 'abstract' sound was one of the starting points for Laconisme de l'aile, started in Freiburg and finished in Paris in 1982. Another important image on which I focused my mind was that of birds, not really their song but rather the lines they draw in the sky when flying." Read more here! |
Sequenza I for solo flute, by Luciano Berio
Recorded August 24, 2020
Recorded August 24, 2020
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Luciano Berio composed the first of his Sequenzas in 1958 for flute with the intention of writing multi-voiced music for a solo instrument. On composing the Sequenzas, Berio wrote the following:
"Writing for a single-voice instrument today means that the composer must thoroughly re-establish the relationship between open and concealed, linear and melodic counterpoint from the ground up; this touches a central nerve-point of musical intention." Source |
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Flute & Piano
Fanmi Imen, by Valerie Coleman
Featuring Grace Burns on piano Recorded live, November 16, 2019 Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, by
Clara Schumann I. Andante molto II. Allegretto III. Leidenschaftlich schnell Featuring Grace Burns on piano Recorded live, November 16, 2019 Flute Alone
Trillium, by Elizabeth Brown
Recorded live, November 16, 2019 Confluence, by Zhou Long
Recorded October 2017 Separation Logic, by Roger Dannenberg
Recorded live, December 1, 2016 |
Chamber
Le soleil ne sait rien de l'ombre, by Jean-Patrick Besingrand
Featuring Kamratōn Sarah Steranka, contrabass flute Emily Cook, bass clarinet Cecilia Caughman, cello Recorded live, May 5, 2017 Ko-Lho (movement 1), by Giacinto Scelsi
Featuring Emily Cook on clarinet Recorded live, February 18, 2017 |