Debussy, Caplet, Bartók: Syrinx / Rokyta, Novotna

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
April 22, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Bela Bartok, Andre Caplet, Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, Ciprian Porumbescu, Ed
    • PERFORMER
      Liselotte Rokyta, Eliska Novotna
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 22, 2022
    • UPC
      099925431129
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4311-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Bot tánc (Stick Dance)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    2. No. 2. Brâul

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    3. No. 3. Topogó (The Stomper)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    4. No. 4. Bucsumi tánc (Bucsumi Dance)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    5. No. 5. Román polka (Romanian Polka)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    6. No. 6. Aprózó (Quick Dance)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    7. Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune (arr. A. Roelens and L. Rokyta for pan flute and piano)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    8. Suite bergamasque: IV. Passepied (arr. F. Cesarini and L. Rokyta for pan flute and piano)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    9. Danse de la chèvre, H. 39 (arr. L. Rokyta for pan flute)

      Composer: Arthur Honegger

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta

    10. Rêverie

      Composer: André Caplet

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    11. Petite valse

      Composer: André Caplet

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    12. III. L'ange aux parfums (The Angel with the Incense)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta

    13. I. Subtilité des corps glorieux (The Subtlety of the Glorified Bodies)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta

    14. Hora prahova (C. Arvinte for pan flute and piano)

      Composer: Ciprian Porumbescu

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    15. Hora detrunchiaţilor (arr. C. Arvinte for pan flute and piano)

      Composer: Ciprian Porumbescu

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    16. Density 21.5 (arr. L. Rokyta for pan flute)

      Composer: Edgard Varèse

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta

    17. Rêverie (arr. F. Cesarini and L. Rokyta for pan flute and piano)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta, Eliška Novotná-Gazdová

    18. Syrinx (arr. L. Rokyta for pan flute)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Liselotte Rokyta


One of the oldest musical instruments we know of, the pan flute was played in many antique civilizations. The sophisticated type used in Romanian folk music is the most familiar to a contemporary audience. The virtuosos who brought fame to the pan flute in the second half of the 20th century include the Romanian musicians Damian Luca, Radu Simion, Nicolae Pîrvu, Gheorghe Zamfir and Simion Stanciu. Liselotte Rokyta studied with four of the “Big Five” and also gained authentic pan flute skills from folk players during a number of visits to Romania. The present album documents that the pan flute also occupies an indispensable position in classical music. The pieces by Bartók and Porumbescu are arrangements of Romanian folk dances, in which the pan flute is commonly employed. Debussy composed his Syrinx for the transverse flute, to which the pan flute (or syrinx) would seem to be an equal variant. The other arrangements are based on 19th- and 20th-century French composers’ works for the flute, as well as the piano and organ. You may have been hard pressed to imagine pieces by Varèse, Honegger or Messiaen played on the pan flute, yet you will certainly be engrossed by Liselotte Rokyta’s performance. The respective composers would undoubtedly have written music for the pan flute too had they had available a musician of her quality. The enchanting voice of the nymph Syrinx in the realm of classical music.