Track Listing

1. March Of The Blue-Birds - Roberto Fabbriciani/Massimiliano Damerini
2. Musica Vneukokvahja: Alleluja - Roberto Fabbriciani
3. Musica Vneukokvahja: Danza - Roberto Fabbriciani
4. Musica Vneukokvahja: Giga - Roberto Fabbriciani
5. Nidi: Due Pezzi: I - Roberto Fabbriciani
6. Nidi: Due Pezzi: II - Roberto Fabbriciani
7. Superscriptio - Roberto Fabbriciani
8. La Belle Epoque: Conc-Fant - Roberto Fabbriciani/Massimiliano Damerini
9. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Ti (China) - Roberto Fabbriciani
10. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Taogum (Korea) - Roberto Fabbriciani
11. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Donglim (Tibet) - Roberto Fabbriciani
12. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Shinobue (Japan) - Roberto Fabbriciani
13. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Suling (Bali) - Roberto Fabbriciani
14. Six Prlds: Studies On Asian Pipes: Khene (Laos) - Roberto Fabbriciani
15. Allegro - Roberto Fabbriciani
16. Tre Prlds: I - Roberto Fabbriciani
17. Tre Prlds: II - Roberto Fabbriciani
18. Tre Prlds: III - Roberto Fabbriciani
19. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Aquarius - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
20. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Pisces - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
21. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Aries - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
22. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Taurus - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
23. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Gemini - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
24. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Cancer - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
25. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Leo - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
26. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Virgo - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
27. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Libra - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
28. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Scorpio - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
29. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Sagittarius - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
30. Tierkreis Op.41: 12 Melodien Der Sternzeichen: Capricorn - Orch Da Camera 'I Solisti Di Fiesole'/Nicola Paszkowski
31. Piccolo Con - Roberto Fabbriciani

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284262 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-12
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Excellent in parts, but let down by some very ordinary music
An entire CD of music for piccolo? It seems like such a bizarre idea that it's perhaps surprising how close this disc comes to succeeding--even given that the performer is the phenomenal Italian flautist Roberto Fabbriciani.

The first four works are all excellent. Janacek's March of the Bluebirds--based on a theme also used in his wind sextet Mladi--is a delightful, throwaway two minutes. This is followed by two Italian works, Castiglioni's Musica Vneuhkokvahja and Donatoni's Nidi which--in different ways--explore the wonderful lightness that's possible in solo piccolo playing. The following piece, Ferneyhough's Superscriptio--the opening piece in his Carcieri d'Invenzione cycle--is perhaps the closest there is to a classic for solo piccolo, and Fabbriciani plays as you would expect from the dedicatee of this difficult work.

The rest of the disc is less impressive, Casterede's highly camp La Belle Epoque, for piccolo, flute and piano, caricatures Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven in a sub-Poulencian manner, while Loeb's Six Preludes are largely uninteresting exercises in musical Orientalism. Isang Yun's Allegro and Camillo Togni's Tre Preludi do at least rise several levels higher than the immediately preceding works, but it's hard to imagine wishing to return to them on a regular basis.

Stockhausen's Tierkreis--a set of twelve melodies for the signs of the Zodiac--follows next. It's enjoyable enough, without coming close to the best this composer has to offer. The disc then ends with the only orchestral work on the disc, Valentino Bucchi's brief Piccolo Concerto--the title being a pun. This is a rather stylistically eclectic piece, worth hearing a couple of times but not inviting repeated listening in the way the first four works on this disc do.

Overall, this recording is about what might be expected from 65 minutes of piccolo music. Despite the number of weak works in the program, it's worth considering, given the comparatively low price and the outstanding music in the first third of the disc.