Sonata for Flute & Piano (2014)

     
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    I - Allegro con pungiglione (extract)
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    II - Grave (extract)
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    III - Rondo Vivace (extract)

This work in three movements was commissioned by my former student Isabelle Ashton, who asked for a work which could be performed for her Diploma, or for auditions. The work uses the extreme ranges of the flute, with some pitch-bending requirements, but does not use microtones – it can be played on open-holed or closed-hole flutes. Overall performance time is just over 13 minutes.

I – Allegro con pungiglione (4 minutes 30 seconds)

II – Grave (5 minutes)

III – Rondo Vivace (3 minutes 40 seconds)

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The work was reviewed by Zoë Booth in the March 2015 edition of PAN, the British Flute Society’s quarterly magazine. She wrote: “Nick Planas has written this beautiful sonata to fit well under the fingers of players beyond Grade 8 level… The musical style is contemporary classical – think the appealing tone-world of Ravel or Prokoviev – requiring few extended techniques (a few harmonics, a simple rolling glissando in the second movement and fast double-tonguing) but needing a reliable finger facility at speed across the range of the flute (up to top C#/Db), and attention to dynamic and articulated detail.”

 

£7.00

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