Togni: Works for Flute Roberto Fabbriciani

• Camillo Togni (1922-1993):
• 1 3 Preludes for Flute: No. 1, Rondine garrula 01:41
• 2 3 Preludes for Flute: No. 2, Intreccio 01:55
• 3 3 Preludes for Flute: No. 3, Compianto 02:39
• 4 Flute Sonata, Op. 35: I. Comodo 02:32
• 5 Flute Sonata, Op. 35: II. Recitativo. Lento 03:57
• 6 Flute Sonata, Op. 35: III. Rondò. Vivace 03:35
• 7 Prelude for Solo Piccolo 01:19
• 8 3 Duets for Soprano & Flute: No. 1, Canone 01:56
• 9 3 Duets for Soprano & Flute: No. 2, Dialogo (Canone composito) 03:37
• 10 3 Duets for Soprano & Flute: No. 3, Motto 00:59
• 11 Per Maila 01:54
• 12 Inno a Iside 02:47
• 13 5 Pieces for Flute & Guitar: No. 1, Rondine garrula 01:38
• 14 5 Pieces for Flute & Guitar: No. 2, Fermamente 02:58
• 15 5 Pieces for Flute & Guitar: No. 3, Intreccio 01:57
• 16 5 Pieces for Flute & Guitar: No. 4, Fiore di cinnamomo 01:57
• 17 5 Pieces for Flute & Guitar: No. 5, Compianto 02:39
• 18 3 Preludes for Piccolo: No. 1, — 01:16
• 19 3 Preludes for Piccolo: No. 2, — 01:41
• 20 3 Preludes for Piccolo: No. 3, — 00:47
• 21 Fantasia concertante 09:20
• Total Runtime 53:04

Info for Togni: Works for Flute

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

Roberto Fabbriciani
Original interpreter and versatile artist, Roberto Fabbriciani has innovated flute technique, multiplying through personal research the instrument's sonorous possibilities. He has collaborated with some of the major composers of our time: Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Niccolò Castiglioni, Aldo Clementi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luis De Pablo, Franco Donatoni, Jindřich Feld, Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Françaix, Giorgio Gaslini, Harald Genzmer, Adriano Guarnieri, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Ernest Krenek, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Luca Lombardi, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Nono, Goffredo Petrassi, Henri Pousseur, Wolfgang Rihm, Jean-Claude Risset, Nino Rota, Nicola Sani, Giacinto Scelsi, Dieter Schnebel, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mauricio Sotelo, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Isang Yun, many of whom have dedicated numerous and important works that he performed at their premiers. He worked for many years with Luigi Nono, in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiburg, blazing new and unusual trails in music. Fabbriciani has played as soloist with the conductors Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Bruno Bartoletti, Luciano Berio, Ernest Bour, Bruno Campanella, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Sergiu Comissiona, José Ramón Encinar, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gabriele Ferro, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Michael Gielen, Cristóbal Halffter, Djansug Kachidse, Bernhard Klee, Vladimir Jurowsky, Peter Maag, Bruno Maderna, Diego Masson, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Marcello Panni, Zoltán Peskó, Josep Pons, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Arturo Tamayo, Lothar Zagrosek, and with orchestras including Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre della Rai, London Sinfonietta, LSO, RTL Luxembourg, BRTN Brussel, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, WDR of Colonia, SWF Baden-Baden, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunks, Münchener Philharmoniker. He performed concerts at prestigious theaters and musical institutions: Scala in Milan, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Festival Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Carnegie Hall in New York and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and has frequently participated in festivals like the Venice Biennale, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ravenna, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Brussels, Granada, Luzern, Warsaw, Salzburg, Wien, Lockenhaus, Donaueschingen, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Cervantino. Has recorded several albums and has been professor of master classes at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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