Roberto Fabbriciani has been an important reference for flutists and composers for decades. The list of renowned masters with whom he has worked is impressive: Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Niccolò Castiglioni, Aldo Clementi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luis de Pablo, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Giorgio Gaslini, Klaus Huber, Ernst Krenek, György Kurtág, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Goffredo Petrassi, Henri Pousseur, Wolfgang Rihm, Nino Rota, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Isang Yun and many others. Fabbriciani has not only revolutionized flute technique, but has also contributed to updating compositional strategies, as the instrument has always been placed at the service of the composition. 'The aim,' says Fabbriciani, 'is to make art music accessible to a wider audience. Technology has enabled a new leap forward, but composition is not born from the availability of new tools, but because innovative musical thinking needs these tools to express itself' This album focuses on music dedicated to Fabbriciani (with the exception of Maderna's piece). However, Roberto Fabbriciani is not only the highly esteemed interpreter of contemporary music we all know, but also an outstanding performer of the traditional repertoire with an extensive discography ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to Johann Sebastian Bach and Ottorino Respighi to Astor Piazzolla and beyond. The past nourishes the present, and the present holds the seeds of the future, as these recordings clearly show.