Fabbriciani - Fabbriciani : Zeus Joueur de Flutes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Franco Platino - Guitar Recital [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/26/1999

Flutist Roberto Fabbriciani continues his releases dedicated to the flute repertoire of single composers with works by Belgian composer Henri Pousseur (1929-2009). Previous releases on Mode featured Aldo Clementi and Bruno Maderna. As with the preceding Clementi and Maderna releases, this Pousseur marks the first time Pousseur's works for flute have been collected in one recording. It is important to note that Fabbriciani had a long working relationship with the composer. The series of Flexions was composed in 1979 for the performance examinations at the Conservatory in Liège, where Pousseur had been director for 3 years. It aims to introduce students to the diversity of post-tonal harmonic materials without discarding any contact with tradition and the harmonic qualities of the standard repertoire. Two pieces belong to the category of open or mobile form works. The score of Éclipticare (2001) is a proposal to be elaborated (completed). Fabbriciani has made two different versions, including extended playing techniques prominent in the contemporary flute repertoire but largely unused by Pousseur in his written scores. Éclipticare builds a kind of bridge to Zeus jouer de flûtes (2006), a score that is co-signed Pousseur-Fabbriciani for good reasons. Pousseur provided the tape (Hymne à Zeus ornothologue, extracted from the eight Études paraboliques, 1972) as well as a Inchplan of actionInch indicating the specific time-spans and the choice of instrument to be used according to the tessitura (from bass-flute to piccolo). All the other details remained in Fabbriciani's hands. This type of collaboration had long been part of Pousseur's practice and is also the outcome of his firm belief in the social and human importance of sharing. In addition to the flute repertoire, this also includes Pousseur's Scambi for electronic tape, composed in 1957 and realized by Pousseur at

Roberto Fabbriciani is an innovator of flute techniques developed through personal research of the flute's sonorous possibilities. He has collaborated with some of the major composers of our time, and has worked for many years with Luigi Nono in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiberg, blazing new and unusual trails in music. He performs on this new alongside Alvise Vidolin on electronics. The pieces on this album tell of water as a game, passion and necessity; Roberto's dreams, childhood games and imagination, but also the dark, dramatic historical moment experienced in his youth the flooding of Florence. It is again a return to loving and playing with water as a source of life.