Claude Debussy — SYRINX. LA FLÛTE DE PAN — mystical offstage music скачать в хорошем качестве

Claude Debussy — SYRINX. LA FLÛTE DE PAN — mystical offstage music

„Syrinx. La Flûte de Pan“ is today regarded as the most widely known work for solo flute and has become firmly established in the concert repertoire. Originally, however, it was composed as incidental music for the drama „Psyche“ by the writer Gabriel Mourey and was intended to be performed not onstage but offstage. Within the drama, the music is associated with the pastoral god Pan, who plays a distant, lament-like melody while two nymphs conduct a dialogue onstage. The flute thus functions not merely as a musical instrument, but also as an embodiment of Pan’s beloved, the nymph Syrinx, who, while fleeing from Pan, was transformed into a reed. From this reed Pan fashioned a flute, through whose sound he gives expression to his grief over the loss of Syrinx. The work — whose compositional language exhibits striking affinities with the flute solo from Debussy’s „Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune“ — is dedicated to the flutist Louis Fleury, who gave its premiere in 1913 in Paris in the context of the theatrical production. Fleury subsequently performed the piece in numerous recitals throughout Europe, consistently maintaining its original offstage placement by playing from the wings or from behind a screen. The work was not published until 1927, at a time when both Debussy and Fleury were already deceased. While the original dramaturgical function of Syrinx has largely faded from collective memory, the work’s enigmatic and mystical character continues to exert a lasting fascination.