Reza Vali
Flute family · folk inspiration · contemporary chamber music
Folk Songs Set No. 9 · for flutes (piccolo to bass) and cello
Reza Vali
About this repertoire
Reza Vali’s Folk Songs Set No. 9 belongs to a distinctive contemporary sound world rooted in Persian folk inspiration and transformed through a refined chamber-music language.
Moving from piccolo to bass flute, the music reveals the flute family as a collection of distinct voices rather than a single instrument.
Long before my current projects around Saariaho, Reich, Boulez, FlashNight and Flute Studio Lab, the flute family was already central to my artistic language.
COMPLETE RECORDING
Hélène Navasse · David Petersson
Song 1
Song 2
Song 3
Song 4
Song 5
Song 6
Song 7
Song 8
Hélène Navasse · Øystein Sonstad
A personal connection
I first encountered Reza Vali’s Folk Songs during my studies in Amsterdam. A fellow flute student introduced me to the score shortly after it arrived from the United States. Since then, this music has remained a constant companion throughout my work with the flute family.
The music immediately touched me deeply and stayed with me. I have always been fascinated by the colours and expressive possibilities of the flute family, and by the sound world of Persian traditional music. The combination of folk inspiration, colour and contemporary language felt unlike anything I had encountered before.
More than two decades later, I remain drawn to the same qualities: the dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression, the richness of timbre and the different voices of the flute family.
The music immediately touched me deeply and stayed with me. I have always been fascinated by the colours and expressive possibilities of the flute family, and by the sound world of Persian traditional music. The combination of folk inspiration, colour and contemporary language felt unlike anything I had encountered before.
More than two decades later, I remain drawn to the same qualities: the dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression, the richness of timbre and the different voices of the flute family.
Hélène Navasse · Øystein Sonstad
Artistic focus
In the context of my current projects, this recording forms a line of continuity: from chamber music and folk-song transformation to today’s work with spatial sound, electronics,
composer collaborations and the expanded flute family.
The work belongs to a larger artistic trajectory connecting living composers, instrumental colour and the flute as a family of distinct voices rather than a single instrument.
composer collaborations and the expanded flute family.
The work belongs to a larger artistic trajectory connecting living composers, instrumental colour and the flute as a family of distinct voices rather than a single instrument.