Single movement.

Flute soloist *2221-2210-tmp+3-arp-pf-cu

27-09-1973 Solita Cornelis, flute. Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona. Antoni Ros Marbà, conductor. XI Festival de Música de Barcelona. Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Dedicated to Jean-Pierre Rampal.

Comissioned by Juventudes Musicales de Barcelona.

Original version for flute and piano.

There is a version for flute and guitar.

Comments

"Lydia was a mysterious, but real woman who lived in the fishing village of Cadaqués, and who has been the subject of numerous artistic references, such as the writer Eugeni d'Ors or those of the painter Salvador Dalí. The opening cadence of the flute raises a tense and dramatic climate that seems to seek dialogue with the orchestra. When it finds it, the initial energy gives way to a speech that languidly involves us in the tribute to this woman-symbol of Cadaqués."

David Puertas, 1998.

"Undoubtedly, the Serenade a Lydia de Cadaqués premiered as we said in its version for flute and piano and re-premiered in a second conception for flute and guitar finds today in its definitive orchestral form, all the expressive force of its living content. We believe that today, in its symphonic texture, its author fully achieves the result he dreamed of for this beautiful work the day he began to imagine it."

Jordi Roch,1973.