* Passages of Time
A duet for Piano and Flute in four movements.
I do have a recording of this being performed by Flute and Piano, but the recording was on an old cassette tape and was of poor quality.
All four movements run almost 17 minutes, the last movement being the longest. The second movement is the most demanding in terms of the flute part (tonguing) and the piano part (getting all the notes in with the right rhythm). NOTE: you will have to search the list within the SoundClick link to find the individual movements since that site has changed their format.
Reviews: Music of a man at peace with the world
After hearing the first bars of this piece it became quite clear to me that the best I could do was not to try to "analyse" it, but instead to allow myself to be surrounded and transported by this beautiful music. I experienced a range of subtle, warm, delicate emotions while listening to this piece as the sinuous line melodic lines of the flute and the enchanting piano accompaniments unfolded. Perhaps the best way to describe this feeling is that I felt as if I was beginning to soar in the air, like a bird learning to fly, gliding higher and higher above the land and watching the calm sea, and the diffuse line of the horizon. Passages of Time is the music of a man at peace with what lies ahead and what has slipped into eternity behind us. It is the music of a man on a journey, who has found his sense of purpose and can bid farewell with sweet melancholy without striving desperately for the unattainable. In some way this music encapsulates our human experience and our ability to move forward and let our memories fly over the horizon without casting them away from our soul.
~ Jordi Vives i Batlle
UPDATE:
Here are the recordings as done by flute and piano. This had to have been from the early 1990s or the late 1980s. Sound quality is a bit spurious, but is sufficient to allow the listener to image how I had originally envisioned the music.
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