Salvatore Sciarrino - Frammento e Adagio, I
Frammento e Adagio, for flute & orchestra (1992) I. Frammento II. Adagio Mario Caroli, flute Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Tito Ceccherini Frammento is based on Sciarrino's earlier sketches for a flute concerto. The title as originally planned, "Ninfeo dei pensieri", is a reference to a temple of the nymphs as an airy building, filled less with the presence of the divine than with the eager expectation of a divine appearance. In this temple, according to Sciarrino, the flute enters into dialogue with the echo. Formally the piece takes place on several parallel and polyphonic levels. The "Adagio" was created in 1992 as the "crowning" extension of the "Fragment". Meanwhile Sciarrino has developed his "window form": a work with various windows of time. The idea of pluralism remains, but Sciarrino now understands it more clearly than before as an expression of our time: of the computer age with its parallel worlds. Other compositional principles in the "Adagio" are fragmentation and repetition. For Sciarrino, both are expressions of breathing as a basic physiological function. [modernmusix.com] Art by Nassos Daphnis
Frammento e Adagio, for flute & orchestra (1992) I. Frammento II. Adagio Mario Caroli, flute Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Tito Ceccherini Frammento is based on Sciarrino's earlier sketches for a flute concerto. The title as originally planned, "Ninfeo dei pensieri", is a reference to a temple of the nymphs as an airy building, filled less with the presence of the divine than with the eager expectation of a divine appearance. In this temple, according to Sciarrino, the flute enters into dialogue with the echo. Formally the piece takes place on several parallel and polyphonic levels. The "Adagio" was created in 1992 as the "crowning" extension of the "Fragment". Meanwhile Sciarrino has developed his "window form": a work with various windows of time. The idea of pluralism remains, but Sciarrino now understands it more clearly than before as an expression of our time: of the computer age with its parallel worlds. Other compositional principles in the "Adagio" are fragmentation and repetition. For Sciarrino, both are expressions of breathing as a basic physiological function. [modernmusix.com] Art by Nassos Daphnis