Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
This score is provided for educational use only; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues.
Roberto Fabbriciani, alto flute
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-) is an Italian composer whose music, as he puts it in his official biography, "leads to a different way of listening, a global emotional realization, of reality as well as of one’s self." From a technical standpoint, Sciarrino's works are notable for their use of so-called "extended techniques" as the foreground of his compositional practice, rather than simply as a variation to color sound.
"All'aure in una lontananza", which roughly translates to "aura at a distance", was written in 1977 and dedicated to Roberto Fabbriciani. It became the first work in Sciarrino's collection of five flute pieces "L'opera per flauto", composed over more than ten years. While Sciarrino is not my favorite contemporary composer, I do enjoy this piece for its minimal material and its careful use of repetition and silence. (My piece for alto flute "The whispering voice of water" (youtube.com/watch?v=GCLGFmD1Hpw) begins with similarly subtle textures but develops them in quite a different direction.)
This score is provided for educational use only; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues.
Roberto Fabbriciani, alto flute
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-) is an Italian composer whose music, as he puts it in his official biography, "leads to a different way of listening, a global emotional realization, of reality as well as of one’s self." From a technical standpoint, Sciarrino's works are notable for their use of so-called "extended techniques" as the foreground of his compositional practice, rather than simply as a variation to color sound.
"All'aure in una lontananza", which roughly translates to "aura at a distance", was written in 1977 and dedicated to Roberto Fabbriciani. It became the first work in Sciarrino's collection of five flute pieces "L'opera per flauto", composed over more than ten years. While Sciarrino is not my favorite contemporary composer, I do enjoy this piece for its minimal material and its careful use of repetition and silence. (My piece for alto flute "The whispering voice of water" (youtube.com/watch?v=GCLGFmD1Hpw) begins with similarly subtle textures but develops them in quite a different direction.)
