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20th century

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Solo repertoire

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Alto flute

Bass flute

Jolivet André

Aitken, Robert

Amirov, Fikret

Amlin, Martin

Amram, David

Andriessen, Jurriaan

Arnold, Malcolm

Arrieu, Claude

Auric, Georges

Babbit, Milton

Bacchus, Peter

Bacri, Nicolas

Baker, Michael Conway

Baksa, Robert

Barber, Samuel

Barrere, Georges

Bartók, Béla Viktor János

Baton, René-Emmanuel

Beaser, Robert

Bennet, Richard Rodney

Berg, Gunnar

Berio, Luciano

Bernofsky, Lauren

Bernstein, Leonard

Bloch, Ernest

Bolling, Claude

Bon, Maarten

Bonis, Mel

Boughton, Rutland

Boulanger, Marie-Juliette

Boulez, Pierre

Bourdin, Roger

Bournonville, Armand

Bowen, Edwin York

Bozza, Eugène Joseph

Bréville, Pierre

Brings, Allen

Brotons, Salvador

Brown, Elizabeth

Brun, Georges

Burkhard, Willy

Burton, Eldin

Büsser, Henri

Camus, Pierre

Carmichael, John

Carter, Elliott

Casella, Alfredo

Chaynes, Charles

Clarke, Ian

Colgrass, Michael

Colquhoun, Michael

Copland, Aaron

Corigliano, John

Cortese, Luigi

Currier, Sebastian

Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus

Damase, Jean-Michel

Davidovsky, Mario

De Lorenzo, Leonardo

Debussy, Claude

Del Tredici, David

DeLaney, Charles Oliver

Delerue, Georges

Denisov, Edison

Dèsbriere, Jacques

Dick, Robert

Dinicu, Grigoraș

Dodgson, Stephen

Dohnányi, Ernő

Dubois, Pierre Max

Dukas, Paul

Durey, Louis

Dutilleux, Henri

Enescu, George

Farkas, Ferenc

Feld, Jindřich

Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

Flothuis, Marius

Folio, Cynthia

Foote, Arthur

Foss, Lukas

Françaix, Jean

Fukushima, Kazuo

Gade, Jacob

Gál, Hans

Gaubert, Philippe

Genzmer, Harald

George, Thom Ritter

Ghidoni, Armando

Gieseking, Walter

Glass, Philip

Glière, Reinhold

Golovin, Andrei

Gordeli, Otar

Grier, Lita

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson

Grinblat, Romuald

Grovlez, Gabriel

Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo

Gubajdulina, Sofia

Hahn, Reynaldo

Hailstork, Adolphus

Halphen, Fernand

Hanson, Howard Harold

Harberg, Amanda

Harbison, John

Harsányi, Tibor

Harty, Hamilton

Heiss, John

Heith, David

Henze, Hans-Werner

Higdon, Jennifer

Hindemith, Paul

Holliger, Heinz

Holmboe, Vagn

Honegger, Arthur

Hoover, Katherine

Hosokawa, Toshio

Hovhaness, Alan

Hüe, Georges Adolphe

Hurel, Philippe

Ibert, Jacques

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Ittzés, Gergely

Ives, Charles

Jacob, Gordon

James, Bob

Jemnitz, Sándor

Jirák, Karel Boleslav

Jóhannsson, Magnús Blöndal

Jolivet, André

Jongen, Joseph

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid

Kay, Ulysses

Kelterborn, Rudolf

Ķeniņš, Tālivaldis

Kennan, Kent Wheeler

Kennedy, Martin

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Khachaturian, Aram

Kocsár, Miklós

Kodaly, Zoltan

Koechlin, Charles

Kornauth, Egon

Kraft, Leo

Krzywicki, Jan

Kupferman, Meyer

La Montaine, John

Lauber, Joseph

Lavista, Mario

Lee, Eugene

Leeuwen, Ary van

Levinson, Gerald

Liebermann, Lowell

Loudova, Ivana

Mack, Dieter

Mahler, Gustav

Maresz, Yan

Martin, Frank

Martino, Donald

Martinů, Bohuslav

Meltzer, Harold

Messiaen, Olivier

Mihalovici, Marcel

Milhaud, Darius

Mouquet, Jules

Mower, Mike

Muczynski, Robert

Nielsen, Carl

Norby, Erik

Nordenstrom, Gladys

Offermans, Wil

Olsen, Carl Gustav Sparre

Paget, Daniel

Perle, George

Petrovics, Emil

Piazzolla, Astor

Piston, Walter

Poulenc, Francis

Prokofiev, Sergey

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Ran, Shulamit

Raphael, Günter

Rautavaara, Einojuhani

Ravel, Maurice

Reynolds, Verne

Riegger, Wallingford

Rivier, Jean

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Rota, Nino

Rotaru, Doina

Rouse, Christopher

Roussel, Albert

Rutter, John

Saariaho, Kaija

Sancan, Pierre

Schmidt, Ole

Schocker, Gary

Schulhoff, Erwin

Schwantner, Joseph

Sciarrino, Salvatore

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Sibelius, Jean

Smit, Leo

Tailleferre, Germaine

Takemitsu, Tōru

Taktakishvili, Otar

Tansman, Alexandre

Tomasi, Henri

Tower, Joan

Uébayashi, Yuko

Varèse, Edgar

Vasks, Pēteris

Weigl, Vally

Weinberg, Mieczysław

Wilder, Alec

Williams, Ralph Vaughan

Yi, Chen

Yun, Isang

Zgraja, Krystof

Ascèses for alto or concert flute

By Jolivet André

André Jolivet: Ascèses (‘Ascetic Practices’), for alto flute or concert flute, were composed in 1967, representing Jolivet’s last large-scale work for flute, and complete a kind of creative ring composition with his first pieces for the instrument, the Cinq Incantations. There are 31 years between the composition of both cycles, and as a result, Jolivet’s personal style has undergone some evolution.

Mysticism continued to play an important role in his thinking, and his belief in a composer’s role within society continued to shape his approach. He passed on these convictions over the last 15 years of his life as a teacher. None of which could hide the fact that the world of music around him had changed out of all recognition in the meantime. In Paris, it was now Pierre Boulez, with his concert series Domaine Musical, who set the tone. Jolivet, vehemently opposed as he was to all forms of dogmatism, could find nothing to admire in the serial compositions of Boulez and Stockhausen. In 1958, Luciano Berio composed his flute piece Sequenza, which is light-years away from Jolivet’s aesthetic. From this standpoint, the Ascèses seem to be a protest against structural thinking and mathematical organization in music and an affirmation of Jolivet’s musical convictions.

Jolivet emphasizes the philosophical dimension of his music through quotations placed at the end of every movement derived from the writings of the poet Max-Pol Fouchet (1913–1980), the philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), and from the ancient Egyptian wisdom teachings of the Insinger Papyrus.

With this music, André Jolivet seems to want to say to us once more: ‘Music must establish a communication, not only between humans but also between humans and the universe…’"

Markus Brönnimann

Hélène Boulègue

2019, Naxos

1. Pour que demeure le secret. Nous tairons jusqu'au silence

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Hélène Boulègue

2019, Naxos

2. Tu surgis de l'absence…

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Hélène Boulègue

2019, Naxos

3. Matière, triple abîme des étoiles, des atomes et des générations

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Hélène Boulègue

2019, Naxos

4. Le dieu a créé les rêves pour indiquer la route au dormeur dont les yeux sont dans l'obscurité

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Hélène Boulègue

2019, Naxos

5. Ô femme qui ne sais que tu portais en toi le monde

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Mario Caroli

2006, Stradivarius / Naxos

1. Pour que demeure le secret. Nous tairons jusqu'au silence

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Mario Caroli

2006, Stradivarius / Naxos

2. Tu surgis de l'absence…

00:00
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Mario Caroli

2006, Stradivarius / Naxos

3. Matière, triple abîme des étoiles, des atomes et des générations

00:00
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Mario Caroli

2006, Stradivarius / Naxos

4. Le dieu a créé les rêves pour indiquer la route au dormeur dont les yeux sont dans l'obscurité

00:00
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Mario Caroli

2006, Stradivarius / Naxos

5. Ô femme qui ne sais que tu portais en toi le monde

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Jolivet André

André Jolivet (1905-1974) was a French composer and conductor, known as music’s most sophisticated primitivist. Jolivet liked to expand boundaries of such "primitive" instruments as flute and percussions and described his explorations as "restoring music's original ancient sense".
During his service in the French Army in WWII Jolivet became interested in primitive religion and magic which later developed his style, which sometimes combined exotic and esoteric components.
Even though he wrote concertos for traditional instruments like flute, violin or cello, he managed to come up with rather unusual sonic combinations inspiring many composers to follow these paths. Edgar Varèse has been acknowledged as Jolivet's teacher and mentor who inspired André to formulate his musical style, experimenting with atonality, sound-masses, and other unconventional acoustical properties.