-- Liner Notes --
Four Improvisations for solo Flute
Assez libre - No. 2 - Petite flute - Rapide
Michel Debost, flute
French Office of Radio-Television
Production Director, general editor: Charles Duvelle
Certain composers glean a sensation of security by clustering in groups. Others prefer to follow the main trends of academic composition and take no risks. Then, there is that little minority which abandons the main edifice, rejects the wellworn concepts and rules on which it is based, and draw their inspiration from other sources.
Why continue to deal the same cards with which they were playing in previous centuries? asks Maurice Ohana. What was previously a game, today lies at stake. Composition becomes a dangerous ritual, preparing for a final tete-a-tete with the Minotaur, waiting at the bottom of the creative labyrinth: preparing for the encounter with the fatal mirror and ultimate judge of truth and falsehood.
There is not one work by Ohana in which he does not question the nature of the composer. This reveals a lucid mind revolting against wasteage of sounds, rejecting the insignificant. This is the crux of a mental process, the revelation of riches discovered along the path of research, a quest punctuated by spontaneous outbursts of seams, which hitherto lay buried deep in the obscurity of the undiscovered. Perhaps this constant reference to ancestral paths will reveal a chance of reconciliation with nature -- to get in tune with the Universe. Hence the unrest that every discovery by Ohana awakens in us -- that fragment that suddenly fills us with nostalgia: a passage describing some imaginary continent: a land in which, we are certain that we would be happier to live.
The Four Improvisations for solo Flute, were first performed by Jean-Pierre Rampal in 1962. In spite of the lapse of time between this work and Sibylle, the Improvisations, could be taken as the bright side of the same mystery. A meditation bathed in sunlight and blue sky, dipped in the invention of the breath and the exhilarating freedom of song. Escaping the bounds of the diatonic system, these serene and joyful monodies dance playfully on the lips of some divine nymph. -- Michel Bernard
Four Improvisations for solo Flute
Assez libre - No. 2 - Petite flute - Rapide
Michel Debost, flute
French Office of Radio-Television
Production Director, general editor: Charles Duvelle
Certain composers glean a sensation of security by clustering in groups. Others prefer to follow the main trends of academic composition and take no risks. Then, there is that little minority which abandons the main edifice, rejects the wellworn concepts and rules on which it is based, and draw their inspiration from other sources.Why continue to deal the same cards with which they were playing in previous centuries? asks Maurice Ohana. What was previously a game, today lies at stake. Composition becomes a dangerous ritual, preparing for a final tete-a-tete with the Minotaur, waiting at the bottom of the creative labyrinth: preparing for the encounter with the fatal mirror and ultimate judge of truth and falsehood.
There is not one work by Ohana in which he does not question the nature of the composer. This reveals a lucid mind revolting against wasteage of sounds, rejecting the insignificant. This is the crux of a mental process, the revelation of riches discovered along the path of research, a quest punctuated by spontaneous outbursts of seams, which hitherto lay buried deep in the obscurity of the undiscovered. Perhaps this constant reference to ancestral paths will reveal a chance of reconciliation with nature -- to get in tune with the Universe. Hence the unrest that every discovery by Ohana awakens in us -- that fragment that suddenly fills us with nostalgia: a passage describing some imaginary continent: a land in which, we are certain that we would be happier to live.
The Four Improvisations for solo Flute, were first performed by Jean-Pierre Rampal in 1962. In spite of the lapse of time between this work and Sibylle, the Improvisations, could be taken as the bright side of the same mystery. A meditation bathed in sunlight and blue sky, dipped in the invention of the breath and the exhilarating freedom of song. Escaping the bounds of the diatonic system, these serene and joyful monodies dance playfully on the lips of some divine nymph. -- Michel Bernard
