Description
Julian Elvira & Sofya Melikyan, with a long international career, have joined forces to achieve detailed and passionate versions which, for the most part, constitute the world?s first recordings of these pieces. A collection that allows us to get to know the Eduardo Costa Roldan different creative stages and his varied profiles through the flute.
Madrid-born Eduardo Costa Roldan, has premiered more than thirty chamber and symphonic works. Composition of educational materials is one of his main creative concerns. Tempo de Huida and Berlin 1928, two of the works included in this album Perfil del aire, were born with a clear didactic purpose. The other four titles (Dialogo de sombras, Triptico, Escenas de la vida de Poulenc and Dos imagenes) were commissioned by renowned flautists. However, with the passage of time, they have been established as a regular part of the conservatory repertoire and, some of them have been chosen as examination pieces in educational institutions, national flute competitions or auditions to symphonic ensembles.
A collection that allows us to get to know the author?s different creative stages and his varied profiles through the flute. As Luis Cernuda writes in his first collection of poems, from 1927, entitled Perfil del aire (the book from which the composer has taken the name of this album): 'Guardada esta la dicha / en el aire vacio' ('Happiness is enclosed / in empty air').
