Damase / Lauber / Takemitsu: Music for Flute and Harp

Featuring

Robert Aitken
Erica Goodman
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht
Jean-Michel Damase
Joseph Lauber
Carmen Petra Basacopol

Tōru Takemitsu

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Instruments

The earliest flutes, prototypes of all wind instruments, had equidistant tone-holes corresponding to the human hand, producing a scale that defines the diatonic tonal system.

Performer Biography

Robert Aitken, the flutist on this album, was expelled from the Conservatoire National de musique de Paris at an early age for 'musical ineptitude'.

Compositional Technique

The harp imposes its language on composers, resulting in relatively few who have fully explored its resources due to the limited degree of chromaticism it can achieve.

Instruments

The flute and harp are among the most ancient of instruments, with depictions and artifacts dating back to the time of the Pharaohs.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Despite their international origins, all works on this album are influenced by the ideals of lightness, grace, and lucidity characteristic of the French Impressionist style.

Performer Biography

Robert Aitken, the flutist, became principal flautist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at age nineteen and co-principal of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at twenty-four.