The flute put to the test - Concert by Alexis Kossenko and Vassilis Varvaresos

Works for flute and piano by ENESCO, COOLS, KOECHLIN, MASSON, FAURÉ, RAVEL and CASELLA.
Concert programme:
00:00:46 Georges ENESCO
Cantabile et Presto pour flûte et piano
00:07:16 Eugène COOLS
Sonate pour flûte et piano
Charles KOECHLIN
Les Chants de Nectaire,
Trois cycles de pièces pour flûte seule (extraits)
00:24:39 XXX. Les oiseaux sont ivres
00:26:02 XV. Lumière - Modération - Équilibre
00:29:50 IX. Gaîté de la lumière
00:31:16 Louis MASSON
Andante pour flûte et piano
00:34:36 Gabriel FAURÉ
Fantaisie pour flûte et piano
00:39:48 Maurice RAVEL
La Valse (pour piano seul)
Charles KOECHLIN
Sonate pour flûte et piano, op. 52 :
00:51:13 Adagio molto tranquillo
00:55:39 Allegretto
00:58:59 Final
Alfredo CASELLA
01:06:06 Sicilienne pour flûte et piano
01:12:03 Burlesque pour flûte et piano
During the Belle Époque, the repertoire for accompanied flute was enriched essentially by two means: by the composition of flute sonatas and by the provision of contest pieces (morceaux de concours) for the Paris Conservatoire. The piano sometimes featured so prominently in the former that the work could be regarded as a duo: Charles Koechlin’s Sonate pour piano et flûte is a case in point. The works belonging to the other category, however - illustrated here by Fauré’s Fantaisie (1898) and Enesco’s Cantabile et Presto (1904) - were of course intended to test the flautist’s abilities, so the piano had to remain somewhat in the background, although musicality was an obligatory feature of such pieces.
Recorded in Venice at the Palazzetto Bru Zane, on 19 april 2024
Video: Maco Film