Colori Ensemble, Rianne Jongsma, Wilma Jongsma, Arjan Jongsma, Frans Douwe Slot - Colori Miti (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Introduzione e Capriccio, Op. 18: Introduzione
02. Introduzione e Capriccio, Op. 18: Capriccio
03. Colori: Colori miti
04. Colori: Toccata prima
05. Colori: Canzone
06. Colori: Toccata seconda
07. Colori: Colori violenti
08. Double Scorpio
09. Vijf Nocturnes: Andante tranquillo
10. Vijf Nocturnes: Capriccio – Allegro scherzando
11. Vijf Nocturnes: Lento molto
12. Vijf Nocturnes: Toccata – Allegro molto
13. Vijf Nocturnes: Lamento – Grave
14. Divertimento piccolo: Bagatelle I
15. Divertimento piccolo: Caprice I
16. Divertimento piccolo: Canon
17. Divertimento piccolo: Caprice II
18. Divertimento piccolo: Bagatelle II

In the first place this work is a composition “pour fait plaisir”. Notes to be played with pleasure and to entertain the listener, light-hearted and unpretentious. The idiom is French-orientated and related to both Willem Pijper and Henk Badings, the tutors of Masséus. Introduzione, written for alto flute, has a lengthy spinned out melodic line with repeatedly new preambles, changing from low to high and back again. The total scale of the alto flute is used for this. For the accompaniment the composer uses impressionistic sounding mixed chords that are introduced in a calm movement of brief sounds that are metrically arranged in groups of two and three cords. In that, the left hand intervenes with some antimetrical figures. In the second part, Capriccio, the composer swaps the melancholically alto flute for the clear sounding flute; an instrument more suited to bring to sound the whimsically written notes pattern. The swift movement in this part is twice interrupted by some tranquil bars; an other time, somewhat more cantabile for the flute and in the piano recalling the quiet eighth notes movement of the Introduzione. Capricious, as the title indicates, but ingeniously written by the traditionally skilful composer Jan Masséus.

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