Akos per a flauta i piano

I wrote this version of the Akos composition for flute in response to a request by the CMMB music teacher Dolors Serra to find flute pieces with a more modern musical language suitable for her students.
The composition tells the story of letting go. I dedicated it to my son Aleix who, despite obtaining an honourable mention at the end of his first studies with the flute, decided to go on to take his degree in higher musical studies by studying piano. Hence the name of the piece. In Greek, Akos means remedy, a remedy after letting go even when that is what was wished for.
After the composition was completed, it made me question different issues related to the emotional values behind the work and I felt the need to write a version for clarinet too.
With Akos I aimed to write a piece with idiomatic quality and expressiveness for the flute in which the collage-like structure offers various themes which take the listener along a journey of different influences and reelaborations.
Following a short introduction, the first theme is a melody with pleasant tones which takes us to a frenetic 5/4 time signature creating tension until it emerges into a piano glissando and a short and very slow modal fragment. This clearly nostalgic melody transports us to a long cadence exploring the scale of whole tones and introducing small effects such as frullatos and multiphonics.
The last section of the composition has a triple syncopated rhythm, in a clear allusion to a jazz style, and takes us to the end of the work recalling its harmony amid an atmosphere of chords coloured with dissonances.

Sílvia Llanas Rich