33 battute per Angelica

In 1995, Farkas met Italian flautist Angelica Celeghin during a concert at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest. The artist celebrated her 33rd birthday that year and Farkas composed for her a piece for solo flute of 33 bars which he entitled “33 battute per Angelica”.

Many pages could be written on its proportions, on the dialogue between high and low notes which slowly dissolves in the first section, on the metamorphosis and gently oscillating return of the initial melody. In this world of the infinitely small, every sound has a cosmic meaning, the noises of the outside world have been reduced to silence. For the author, the interpreter or the analyst all that remains is the beating of his own heart.

By getting closer and closer to the flute for almost a century, the master has come a long way and the very essence of his art was revealed when he found himself - for the first and last time - alone with the flute… — Laszló Gombos