• John Corigliano
  • Voyage (for flute and string orchestra) (1983)

  • G Schirmer Inc (World)
  • str
  • Flute
  • 8 min

Programme Note

Composer note:
Voyage for flute and string orchestra (1983) is an instrumental version of a 1971 a cappella choral work that was a setting of Richard Wilbur's translation of Baudelaire's famous L'Invitation au voyage. Wilbur's poignant setting pictures a world of obsessive imagination — a drugged version of heaven full of sensual imagery. The music echoes the quality of the repeated refrain found in this lush translation: "There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, richness, quietness and pleasure."

— John Corigliano

Scores

Discography

Title Unavailable
  • Label
    Telarc
  • Catalogue Number
    80421
  • Conductor
    Rudolf Werthen
  • Ensemble
    I Fiamminghi
  • Soloist
    Paul Edmund-Davies, flute
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    RCA
  • Catalogue Number
    63711
  • Conductor
    David Effron
  • Ensemble
    Eastman Philharmonia
  • Soloist
    James Galway, flute
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    Centaur Records
  • Catalogue Number
    2585
  • Conductor
    Bodham Jarmolowicz
  • Ensemble
    Polish National Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloist
    Katherine DeJongh, flute
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    Telarc
  • Catalogue Number
    80635
  • Conductor
    Rudolf Werthen
  • Ensemble
    I Fiamminghi
  • Soloist
    Paul Edmund-Davies (Flute)