Pristina
for flute solo

2025
Duration: 7′
First performance: 16/05/2025, Bracciano (RM), Bracciano Art Week “Contemporary Bloom” Monica Limongelli (flute)

Presentation
Pristina, for solo flute, is a journey through symbols and mysteries intertwined with the figure of the rose—an emblem of esoteric knowledge and alchemical transformation. Through suspended gestures and intensely expressive moments, the piece moves between mystical visions and inner suggestions, evoking the arcane power of a flower that embodies, more than any other, the essence of the ephemeral and, at the same time, the eternal.
“Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.” – The original rose exists only in name; we possess mere naked names.
Like a fragment of hidden truth, the diegesis reveals itself in an intimate rite, where the breath of the flute shapes space and time, weaving a delicate thread that unfolds between past and present, between the visible and the invisible.