Flute and Piano
SKU:
IS.FP4175EM
Composed
by Jef Schampaert.
Woodwinds - Flute.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #FP4175EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.FP4175EM).
ISBN
9790365041756.
Joze
f (Jef) Schampaert's 1952
Notturno e Danza
(Nocturne and Danse) for
flute and piano, written
as a concours piece for
the Royal Conservatoire
Antwerp in Belgium, is a
bit of a curious beast.
While the rest of the
Belgian school was
experimenting with a
return to lush
romanticism (Alpaerts,
Maes, and the musical
progeny of Benoit), or
beginning to prod the
tonal bounds of
listenable 12-tone and
serialism (Constant and
Verbesselt), Schampaert
took towards a different
sound: that of the
Impressionists,
transmuted through his
distinctly Flemish touch.
The Nocturne and Danse is
no exception. The core of
the Nocturne is a
relatively
straightforward melody,
but it's quickly pulled
apart into Debussyian
fragments and melodic
cells - a rhapsody in
miniature, with touches
of Ibert's stranger runs
and figures through. The
Danse retains a clearer
sense of melody, but one
that's even closer to
Debussy and Ravel - grace
notes and intertwined,
changing runs are
integral melodic
material, by turns dark
then playful. A small
cadenza again touches on
a sense of Ibert before
the piece is brought to a
quiet close.
