Composer: Claude Arrieu, Mel Bonis, Lise Borel, Cécile Chaminade, Claude Achille Debussy, Francis Poulenc
Performer: Mathilde Calderini, Aurèle Marthan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1061
Release: 2024
Size: 725 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Chaminade: Concertino pour flûte et piano, Op. 107
Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1, L. 117
02. No. 8, La Fille aux Cheveux de lin pour flûte et piano (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Roger Brison)
Bonis: Sonate pour flûte et piano, Op. 64
03. I. Andantino con moto
04. II. Scherzo. Vivace
05. III. Adagio con espres – Allegretto ma non troppo – Poco più lento – Adagio
06. IV. Finale. Moderato – Grazioso
Debussy: Epigraphes antiques
07. I. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’été (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
08. II. Pour un tombeau sans nom (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
09. III. Pour que la nuit soit propice (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
10. IV. Pour la danseuse aux crotales (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
11. V. Pour l’Égyptienne (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
12. VI. Pour remercier la pluie au matin (Transcr. for Flute and Piano by Karl Lenski)
Arrieu: Sonatine pour flûte et piano
13. I. Allegro moderato
14. II. Andantino
15. III. Presto
16. Debussy: Syrinx
17. Borel: Miroir pour flûte et piano
Poulenc: Flute Sonata, Op. 164
18. I. Allegro malinconico
19. II. Cantilena
20. III. Presto giocoso
Each of the works on this recording was either composed by or inspired by a woman. We meet Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) and her Concertino – ‘a piece that has accompanied me for years and encapsulates her immense talent’, says Mathilde Calderini; Claude Arrieu (1903-90), a pupil of Marguerite Long and Paul Dukas; Mel Bonis (1858-1937); and the young composer Lise Borel (b. 1993), whom Mathilde Calderini commissioned to write a piece entitled Miroir, which she premiered in 2023 with Aurele Marthan, the pianist on this recording and a longstanding artistic partner of hers. Debussy’s famous nymph Syrinx and a transcription of his prelude La Fille aux cheveux de lin are also on the programme, as are his Six epigraphes antiques, inspired by the Chansons de Bilitis, named after an (entirely fictional) ancient poetess. Francis Poulenc’s Sonata of 1957 is ‘probably one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for flute and piano’, according to the French flautist. The work was commissioned by the American pianist and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who also did a great deal for such composers as Ravel, Stravinsky and Barber.