Syrinx en résonance

d’après l’œuvre de Claude Debussy

pour 3 flutes

Debussy's music is a music of resonance. Each sound seems to want to extend itself infinitely in the space of our memories. This is the case in the works for piano and orchestra, but also in Syrinx, for solo flute (1913). The flute of the god Pan echoes here - twenty years apart - that of the faun. If in the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" (1892-94), the initial flute solo is continued by the orchestra, which amplifies it in a thousand harmonious shimmers, in Syrinx, the flute plays alone, in its own echo. This is why I wanted to extend it in a mirror with its double reflection. Two other flutes materialize here the implicit resonances of the original work. Flutists who have played Syrinx will enjoy playing a three-player version where each player feels multiplied - "put into resonance" - by the other two.