🇫🇷Henri Dutilleux ： Sonatine for Flute and Piano

A sonatina in which flute and piano interact as equal partners, with transparent sonorities intersecting with a keen rhythmic vitality. The flute’s long-breathed melodies, finely moving passages, and the piano’s harmonic color and driving energy are concentrated within a compact span. Rather than emphasizing clearly divided movements, the piece is easier to understand as a single unfolding flow in which lyrical and animated episodes follow one another. The flutist should shape the melodic expression while maintaining secure intonation and a consistent direction of breath, while the pianist should keep inner voices and rhythms clear even in softer passages. The exchanges between the instruments, flexibility of tempo, and growing tension toward the close are among its highlights.