Joueurs de flûtes celebrates four different mythological and literary flute-playing characters in short miniature movements.The piece starts with Pan, the Ancient Greek satyr and god of the flute, characterized by his capricious and also lethargic character – jumping quickly from goat-inspired dances to daydreams.We then move to Ancient Rome, to a character from Virgil’s Eclogues or Bucolics, Tityre, a farmer who bought his freedom and secured lands from the Emperor Octavian.Krishna is built almost entirely on the Hindu Shree Raga due to Roussel’s fascination with the Far East as a result of his activities in the French Navy.These influences found their way into many of his pieces including Krishna, a movement based on Hinduism’s eighth avatar and earthly embodiment of Vishnu whose flute playing awakened love in the hearts of shepherdesses and silenced birds in rapture.The cycle ends with Mr. de la Péjaudie, a character from Henri de Réignier’s 1920 novel La Pécheresse (The Sinner Woman) – he was irresistible to women and also a great flute virtuoso.Each movement is dedicated to a famous French flute player – Marcel Moyse, Gaston Blanquart, Louis Fleury, and Philippe Gaubert.Emi Ferguson
Classical Music | Music for Flute
Albert Roussel
Joueurs de flûte, Op.27 for Flute and Piano Play
Recorded on 09/02/2015, uploaded on 05/11/2016
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I. Pan
II. Tityre
III. Krishna
IV. Monsieur de la Péjaudie
Joueurs de flûtes celebrates four different mythological and literary flute-playing characters in short miniature movements. The piece starts with Pan, the Ancient Greek satyr and god of the flute, characterized by his capricious and also lethargic character – jumping quickly from goat-inspired dances to daydreams. We then move to Ancient Rome, to a character from Virgil’s Eclogues or Bucolics, Tityre, a farmer who bought his freedom and secured lands from the Emperor Octavian. Krishna is built almost entirely on the Hindu Shree Raga due to Roussel’s fascination with the Far East as a result of his activities in the French Navy. These influences found their way into many of his pieces including Krishna, a movement based on Hinduism’s eighth avatar and earthly embodiment of Vishnu whose flute playing awakened love in the hearts of shepherdesses and silenced birds in rapture. The cycle ends with Mr. de la Péjaudie, a character from Henri de Réignier’s 1920 novel La Pécheresse (The Sinner Woman) – he was irresistible to women and also a great flute virtuoso. Each movement is dedicated to a famous French flute player – Marcel Moyse, Gaston Blanquart, Louis Fleury, and Philippe Gaubert. Emi Ferguson
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