Composers
Franco Donatoni
Fili (1981)
for Flute and Piano
Editor: Ricordi
Composed in 1981, commissioned by C.I.P.A.M. (Centro Internazionale Promozione Attività Musicale - International Centre for the Promotion of Musical Activities) and dedicated to Roberto Fabbriciani and Carlo Alberto Neri, Fili consists of a single uninterrupted movement, flowing and - on the whole - traditional. The piano part has in effect threadlike stretches which seem to compete for incorporeal consistency with the natural linearity of the flute.
The composition is a reappraisal of Nidi (two pieces composed in 1979 for piccolo) that is realized by means of an even more supple writing which, to quote Colazzo, "plays at interweaving sharp subtle sounds, lines twisted with the skill of the craftsman who weaves baskets with reeds, invoking and stimulating the imagination of the listener. Not that Donatoni has come to interest himself (as will happen to others
) in the modalities of acoustic perception, studied with the scientific method of perceptuality, but he has certainly developed a capacity, empirically acquired, for interacting with the imagination hidden in the depths of the conscience of each one of us." (Sandro Gorli)