Trois (3) Pieces - Flute Solo

Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900-1936) described his music as "without superfluous ornament or flaws, a music that is sturdy, healthy, optimistic, a music that just works". Claude Debussy's Syrinx (1913) started a fashion for pastoral scenes; it was echoed by Arthur Honegger's Danse de la chevre around 1919, then by Ferroud's Trois Pieces, which had its premiere on 13 December 1922. The first movement, "Bergere captive"  Captive shepherdess , embodies the pastoral idea with a melody which uses the Locrian mode of B to A. The following movements, "Jade" and "Toan-Yan", are imbued with another theme that was fashionable at the time: orientalism. Since Chinese poetry often refers to jade, and in particular to the jade flute, it is only natural that Ferroud should have made the titleh is own, giving it a local flavour through pentatonic scales, glissandi, appoggiaturas and repetitive rhythms. Historical introduction and notes on interpretation in French and English by the flutist Anne Cartel.
New engraving.