Flautists Barbara Highton Williams and Marietjie Pauw release flute album

Here is a press release from the label .

Fofa le nna (Fly with me) - digital release 21st March 2025

Flautists Barbara Highton Williams and Marietjie Pauw announce the digital online release of their album, Fofa le nna (Setswana for “Fly with me”).

With Pauw based in South Africa and Williams in the USA, they form an unusual cross-Atlantic duo, established in 2008 and giving recitals in both their home countries.

The title track was a commission by leading South African composer Neo Muyanga, who suggests flying as “the stuff of dreams”, dedicating his piece in 2012 to “two sisters in mid-flight”. And Williams herself captured the essence of this far-flung but inspired artistic partnership in a poem (from her published collection, Continuo, 2024): “flying through the years in concert and in spirit, / yes, in perfect sync across ten thousand miles”.

The album also includes Elizabeth Brown’s 2005 Lunette (2005), spinning musical lines of sound in the structure of a lunette - an arched window - under the vaulted ceiling where light sparkles. And there are conversations with spirit worlds in Goffredo Petrassi’s Dialogo angelico (1948) and Hendrik Hofmeyr’s Incantesimo for solo flute (1997).

Andante Appassionata for solo flute by Elisenda Fábregas (1998) expresses a wide range of emotions: disquiet to anger, gentle mockery to wonder, love, sadness, and resignation. Charles Koechlin’s 1920 Sonate opus 75 (1920) alludes to philosophical meditations on the mysteries of the universe, playful under a dazzling night sky.

Jindrich Feld’s Cinq Inventions (1976), recalls baroque forms, while Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s Fourth Duet in F major takes us back to the mid-18^th century with three contrapuntal dialogues.

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