Alter Ego: Music for Flute and Piano by Respighi, Fauré & Franck

Rebecca Taio’s choice to programme these well-known pieces from the great repertoire for violin and piano has to do with the technical challenges they pose, both instrumentally and interpretatively. In the flautist’s words: ‘It’s an incredibly fascinating and stimulating idea for me to try out timbres that are different to the ones I’m usually accustomed to, different to those the majority of composers who have written for the flute have been inspired by. In these transcriptions I have aimed for a more romantic and less delicate way of playing the flute, inspired by the long-drawn-out, sustained phrases and intense vibrato so characteristic of string instruments in this sort of repertoire.’

Composer: César Auguste Franck, Gabriel Fauré, Ottorino Respighi
Artists: Rebecca Taio (flute)
Marco Grisanti (piano)

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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.

Faureì’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 Faureì, who was one of the key players in the revival of French instrumental music that had been set in motion in 1871 by the Socieìteì nationale de musique. The Socieìteì’s motto ‘ars gallica’ was also readily heeded by Faureì’s colleague Ceìsar 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 EugeÌne 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.

Tracklist:
Ottorino Respighi:
Cinque pezzi, P.62:
00:00:00 I. Romanza
00:04:01 II. Aubade
00:06:53 III. Madrigal
00:10:44 IV. Berceuse
00:13:52 V. Humoresque
Gabriel Fauré:
Sonata No. 1, Op. 13:
00:19:33 I. Allegro molto
00:29:55 II. Andante
00:37:54 III. Allegro vivo
00:42:09 IV. Allegro quasi presto
César Auguste Franck:
Sonata, FWV8, CFF 123:
00:47:59 I. Allegretto ben moderato
00:54:32 II. Allegro
01:03:12 III. Recitativo-Fantasia
01:11:00 IV. Allegretto poco mosso

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