Dionysus & Apollo: Music for Flute & Harp / Ortensi, Pasetti

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
August 28, 2020
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Ortensi, Pasetti
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421959252
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95925
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. I. Lydienne

      Composer: Jules Mouquet

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    2. II. Dorienne

      Composer: Jules Mouquet

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    3. III. Phrygienne

      Composer: Jules Mouquet

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    4. I. Scaphé

      Composer: Désire-Émile Inghelbrecht

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    5. II. Dryades

      Composer: Désire-Émile Inghelbrecht

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    6. 6 Épigraphes antiques: No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    7. Syrinx

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi

    8. Fauno che fischia a un merlo

      Composer: Salvatore Sciarrino

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    9. I. Preludio: Pastorale e danza delle ninfe Naiadi

      Composer: Nino Mazzoni

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    10. II. Ballo satirico del dio Pan

      Composer: Nino Mazzoni

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    11. Marsia e Apollo

      Composer: Tiziano Bedetti

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    12. Naiades

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    13. The Nymphs

      Composer: Nathaniel Shilkret

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti

    14. Divertissement grec (version for flute and harp)

      Composer: Philippe Gaubert

      Performer: Claudio Ortensi, Anna Pasetti


The mythical figure of Pan is evoked by several composers on this album – explicitly so by Debussy, in his invocation to the Greek god which opens his set of six Epigraphes antiques and is here recorded for the first time in an arrangement for solo harp. Throughout the album, however, the world of Greek mythology infuses the music with a spirit of magical distance and enchantment. Claudio Ortensi and Anna Pasetti begin and end with a pair of rarely heard but delightful Divertissements grecs, by Jules Mouquet and Phillippe Gaubert. Another pair, of exquisite Esquisses antiques, reflects the refined taste and craft of Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, better known to us now as the conductor of a classic account of Pelléas et Mélisande. The Greek fountain-nymphs known as Naiads are sensuously portrayed by William Alwyn in a substantial tone-painting, and the tale of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas is told in haunting fashion by the contemporary Italian composer Tiziano Bedetti. A more fleeting evocation of fauns is brought to life by his elder colleague Salvatore Sciarrino, and between them comes the Third Capriccio by Nino Mazzoni: a piece of two contrasting movements which begins with a delicate and elegant dance for naiads and closes with a sharply drawn sketch of Pan himself, laughing and carousing. Claudio Ortensi and Anna Pasetti formed their duet in 2011, and since then have given many concerts as well as an annual series of masterclasses dedicated to exploring and refining performances of flute and harp repertoire.