FLUTE/PIANO MUSIC BY ITALIAN COMPOSERS
Michael Rogers, Piano
Karl Kraber and Michael Rogers have been performing together for twenty years. They have appeared throughout the Northeast, from Boston to Washington, D.C., including New York's Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall, and have also performed extensively in Ohio and Texas. Together they recorded an album, "American Music for Flute" for Orion, which includes Robert Starer's Colloquies, dedicated to them and premiered by them.
Of the five composers on this CD, four of them spent much of their lives in foreign countries: when not touring, Clementi lived mainly in England from the age of 14; Morlacchi worked in Dresden for 22 years; Casella studied and lived in Paris from the age of 13 until he was 32, and wrote his flute pieces there; from the age of 10, Busoni spent most of his life in Germany. Yet there is a lyric quality and a vivacity to these works which reflects the composers' attachment to their Italian roots.
| TRACKS | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Sonata in G Major, Opus 2, No. 1 for piano with flute (Muzio Clementi) | |
| Allero moderato | 2:26 | |
| Rondo: Allegretto | 4:14 | |
| 3–4 | Sonata in F Major, Opus 2, No. 2 (Clementi) | |
| Allegro | 3:18 | |
| Rondo: allegretto | 3:09 | |
| 5–6 | Sonata in G Major, Opus 2, No. 3 (Clementi) | |
| Allegro | 2:59 | |
| Tempo di Minuetto | 2:16 | |
| 7–8 | Sonata for Flute and Piano (Gaetano Donizetti) | |
| Largo | 1:16 | |
| Allegro | 4:58 | |
| 9 | Il Pastore Svizzero (Francesco Morlacchi) | 4:51 |
| 10–11 | Barcarole et Scherzo, Opus 4 (Alfredo Casella) | |
| Barcarole | 4:43 | |
| Scherzo | 4:03 | |
| 12–13 | Sicilienne et Burlesque, Opus 23 (Casella) | |
| Andante languido e dolce | 5:01 | |
| Presto vivace | 3:41 | |
| 14 | Albumblatt (Ferruccio Busoni) | |
| Andantino | 2:27 | |
| Total Playing Time | 49:22 | |
