A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams' most successful work in this form. The first movement is pastoral in feeling. The second movement begins with a minuet, light and staccato in nature with a middle section featuring a musette's characteristic long-held drone played by the oboe with the melody in the strings. The third movement is a scherzo and two trios. Duration 17 minutes Difficulty Moderately difficult to Difficult

Carl Nielsen's Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano were composed in 1889/90. Having just gained a position as a violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, Nielsen had already experienced success with his String Suite op. 1 both as a composer and as a conductor. Several sketches and autographs bear witness to his intensive work on these contrasting pieces for oboe, which were to appear in 1890 as his Opus 2. The two movements, Romance and Humoreske, are dedicated to the oboist Olivo Krause who played in the royal orchestra. His beautiful tone and virtuosic technique probably played no small part in the fact that these miniatures by the 'young, talented composer? took the public and critics by storm at their first performance in March 1891. / Hautbois Et Piano

Riduzione Per Oboe E Pianoforte. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto In D minor F. VII No. 1 for Oboe with a Piano reduction of the original Strings and Continuo parts, transcribed by Angelo Ephrikian./ Répertoire / 2 Cors Anglais et Pianoforte

Par JACOB GORDON. Standard: Advanced Orchestral material is available on rental. For supply to USA please contact ECS Publishing./ Répertoire / Hautbois et Piano