Roberto Fabbriciani - Togni: Works for Flute '2017

Tracks list

Camillo Togni stands as one of the most representative figures of 20th-century
Italian music. His uncompromisingly independent creativity can be defined as the
quest to strike a balance between exacting formal coherence and the broadest
imaginative freedom, while composing with extraordinary craftsmanship. Togni was
inspired to write numerous works for his friend the acclaimed flautist Roberto
Fabbriciani, a musician as close as any to this composer’s complex,
mysterious and deeply poetic musical language.

„Eight years ago, Naxos drew attention to Camillo Togni, a pianist and
composer who devoted much of his life to the advancement of contemporary music
in Italy. Born in 1922, he had a comprehensive University education outside of
music, but from the age of seven, he studied the piano, the legendary Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli among his mentors. In his later teenage years, he began
to take an interest in composition, and subsequently looked for educational
guidance in that sphere. He had come of a wealthy parentage, and his independent
means took away the pressure to be a ‘commercial’ success, his
scores ranging from the solo pieces heard on this disc, to orchestral works and
two operas. One of his influences was the flautist Severino Gazzelloni, who
premiered several of his works including the Flute Sonata and Fantasia
concertante. Latterly another Italian flautist, and the soloist on this disc,
Roberto Fabbriciani, has been responsible for the premieres. Dedicated to
atonality through much of his creative life, he has been linked with Luigi Nono
as being in the vanguard of experimentalist music in Italy. The disc opens with
the Three Preludes from 1975 that explores most of the possibilities open to the
instrument. Two further movements were added and Togni created the Five Pieces
for flute and guitar, though the guitar only appears in the two added movements.
Turn the clock back to 1953, and there is a semblence of melodic material in the
Sonata for flute and piano contained in three brief movements. There is one
brief track Per Maila from 1982, where Togni embraces tonality, but the Fantasia
concertante for flute and string orchestra really is a child of the Second
Viennese School. The recordings date from 1980 to the present time, and given
good quality sound, as we hear in the Three Preludes, we can enjoy the beautiful
sound we know that Fabbriciani produces.“ (David Denton, David’s
Review Corner)

Roberto Fabbriciani, flute
Dorothy Dorow, soprano
Vincenzo Saldarelli, guitar
Massimiliano Damerini, piano
Carlo Alberto Neri, piano
I Cameristi Lombardi
Mario Conter, conductor

Tracklist:
01. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 1. Rondine garrula (1:40)
02. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 2. Intreccio (1:55)
03. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 3. Compianto (2:40)
04. Roberto Fabbriciani - I. Comodo (2:32)
05. Roberto Fabbriciani - II. Recitativo (3:58)
06. Roberto Fabbriciani - III. Rondò (3:32)
07. Roberto Fabbriciani - Prelude for piccolo (1978) (1:21)
08. Dorothy Dorow - No. 1. Canone (1:53)
09. Dorothy Dorow - No. 2. Dialogo, Canone composito (3:37)
10. Dorothy Dorow - No. 3. Motto (0:58)
11. Roberto Fabbriciani - Per Maila (1:55)
12. Roberto Fabbriciani - Inno a Iside (2:47)
13. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 1. Rondine garrula (1:38)
14. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 2. Fermamente (3:00)
15. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 3. Intreccio (1:56)
16. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 4. Fiore di cinnamomo (1:57)
17. Roberto Fabbriciani - No. 5. Compianto (2:40)
18. Roberto Fabbriciani - Prelude No. 1 (1:15)
19. Roberto Fabbriciani - Prelude No. 2 (1:42)
20. Roberto Fabbriciani - Prelude No. 3 (0:48)
21. Roberto Fabbriciani - Fantasia concertante (9:07)

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