Haika Lübcke, the piccolo player on this album, is the Piccolo Soloist with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra since 2000 and plays a piccolo made by M. Yamada, Japan.
Recording & Production
This album features five world premiere recordings and six first recordings with piccolo, showcasing rare and newly composed works for the instrument.
Compositional Technique
Leonardo De Lorenzo's Suite Mythologique op. 38 uses only 12 fixed pitches from a unique scale he considered 'originally' ancient Greek, and the first movement has no bar lines to suggest free improvisation.
Composer Biography
Bohuslav Martinů, a Czech composer, particularly enjoyed the divertimento genre because it allowed him to create music for its own sake, focusing on playability and beauty.
Composer Biography
Vítězslava Kaprálová, a remarkable Czech composer and pupil of Martinů, tragically died at the young age of 25.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gabriel Mălăncioiu, a Romanian composer, draws inspiration from Byzantine musical structures, specifically 'the wheel,' to evoke a sense of timelessness and an imagined past in his Hommage à Marsyas.
Album & Artwork
The album's concept revolves around the Greek myth of Marsyas, a satyr who challenged Apollo, the god of music, to a musical contest.
