Program notes:
“Sonetos” for flute and piano, is a piece divided into four movements and inspired by four sonnets by Federico García Lorca, a poet to whose memory it is dedicated.
It arises as a result of the final studies of composition at the Superior Conservatory of Music “Manuel Castillo” in Seville under the tutelage of Ignacio Marín.
In its elaboration, the composer was very influenced by the precepts that Oliver Messiaen collects in his treatise “My musical language”, as we can highlight in the use of modes with limited transpositions, non-retrogradeable rhythms, melodic contours inspired by the songs of the birds, ….
Each movement aims to show us different perspectives on the instruments involved. The last being, as a compilation of its predecessors, a cyclical movement to close the work.
As an interpretive suggestion, the author proposes that during the concert, each movement be introduced by reading its corresponding poem.
1st Movement:
We find an introduction “ad libitum” in which the measure is annotated with a special spelling that offers a certain freedom to the performers, to then move on to the movement itself, which is characterized by its rhythmic richness and energy, playing with the combination of different measures and accents, such as 3/8, 6/8 and 3/4 (not written but understood), very popular in the dances of southern Spain.