Classical and Modern Music
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Code: 111617
EAN: 3838898111617
SOBA ZA ŠTIRI - ROOM FOR FOUR
Flute Quartet 4SYRINX
Karolina Šantl Zupan - flute
Špela Benčina - flute, piccolo flute
Darija Zokić - flute, piccolo flute, alt flute
Marina Novak - flute, piccolo flute, alt flute, bass flute
The flute quartet 4 Syrinx was formed in the year 2001, when four professional, pedagogically and orchestrally bound musicians came together. The decision to form a half-Croatian and half-Slovenian quartet was based on previous experience and pedagogical, cultural and musical exchange. The four musicians broaden their sound spectre by introducing alt-flute and piccolo into the ensemble. Until now the quartet had a series of noticeable appearances, showing the unity of interpretation, sense of
style and a feeling for phrase as well as clean and tonally undisputed sound. They perform original pieces composed for flute quartets, by which they contribute to the introduction of such repertoire and pieces by modern authors to the more general public. The already broad repertoire is getting bigger with compositions written especially for them, by the composers inspired by them.
COMPOSITIONS:
Aldo Kumar: SOBA ZA ŠTIRI
1. Allegro piu mosso 3.16 (listen!)
2. Allegro 1.37
Boris Papandopulo: TRIJE STAVKI ZA KVARTET
3. Allegretto 3.44
4. Andante 4.46
5. Allegro moderato 3.20
Fran Lhotka: MALA SUITA
6. Na osami 2.38
7. Pastirska 3.07
8. U kolu 1.41
9 . Pavel Mihelčič:
CHORUS V. 3.14
10. Slavko Šuklar:
SCREAM 6.30
Petar Obradovič: FLUTE SESSION
11. Air 1.26
12. Bossa Nova 2.37
13. Joyful 1.29
14. Festa Latina 0.43
15. Marin Rabadan:
SIX SWEETS 4.11
16. Alfi Kabiljo:
PARKOVI 3.19
Three movements for a flute quartet (1979) were composed by Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991) for a flute quartet formed by Theo Tabaka, Vesna Košir, Vladimir Kondres and Miroslav Sedak Benčić, who also performed it for the first time in October 1980. In this piece one can notice neo-classical ideas through, mainly theme-based, composing procedures. The changing of homo- and poly phonic segments typical for baroque, is upgraded by polyrhythmia and metric
instability.
Small suite for four flutes (1927) composed by Fran Lhotka (1883–1962) consists of three movements. Melodically Lhotka uses the Croatian folklore and masterfully alters it. The piece is metrically and rhythmically diverse and full of contrasts.
Flute session for 4 flutes (2002) composed by Petar Obradović (1972) is a four parter: Bossa Nova, Joyful and Festa latina. Suite-like form of the piece begins with the melancholic Air (French. melody). Obradović, as a modern composer, tends to homogenized sound and simplicity of musical order.
Chorus V for a flute quintet (1978) was composed by Pavel Mihelčič (1937) for a flute quintet from the High school of music in Ljublja-na (ZGBI) . The word chorus, taken from jazz served as an inspiration for a series of pieces with the same title. It has three par ts (Amabile, largo), with metrically unstable lateral par ts in a corelation with a metrically stable
central par t. Here Mihelčič joined the traditional as well as the modern means of expression. The composition is based on short neo-baroque themes that are organized in poliphonic and homophonic sections in which they also motivically disolve. By succesfully combining five flutes the emphasis is on their sound contrasts.
Room for four (1982) composed by Aldo Kumar (1954) for a flute quartet consists of two movements. Both are three-parters. The form of the first one (Allegro piu mosso) is a sonata, the middle part of which is marked by stretta-tecnique and sequent motive processing. The metric stability and rhythmical diversity mark the second movement (Allegro), where the equivalence of instruments is achieved through frequent imitations, especially
in the process of variating the thematic material.
Scream for three flutes, cymbal and a vibraphone (1986), composed by Slavko Ludvig Šuklar (1952), is a three-part piece (Adagio molto). Gradual addition of instruments, use of stretta-technique and sequent imitation of motive structure enable the growth of sound density. A rhythmically rich composition full of great sound contrasts saturated with dissonance and unusual tone units reaches its peak
of expressivity at the end in the shout of human voice. In this composition Šuklar achieves the equality of all units.
Alfi Kabiljo (1933) is an internationally renowned composer that writes for theatre, film, T V, chansons, orchestral and chamber pieces. He's the author of music for forty films and about a hundred TV parts. He's also the author of numerous pop songs and chansons and frequent winner and judge at festivals of light music at home and abroad.
The musical work of Marin Rabadan depends mostly on the orders from his colleagues, mostly from chamber ensembles. What makes him different from the others, classical composers, is openness to newer, popular and film music. We can find traces of John Williams or Brian Setzer also in the composition Six sweets for five flutes, which is basically written for six flutes and was performed for the first time at the concert of the Croatian
flute association.
