Oboe and piano SKU: ST.C461 Composed by Various. Wind & brass music. Clif...(+)
Oboe and piano
SKU:
ST.C461
Composed by
Various. Wind & brass
music. Clifton Edition
#C461. Published by
Clifton Edition
(ST.C461).
ISBN
9790570814619.
This edition replaces the
old Nova Edition NM394
and the subsequent but
also now defunct EMA142.
Both previous editions
are now out of print.
This is a freshly edited,
updated and greatly
improved
edition.
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Gioacchino
Rossini: Variations for
Oboe and Piano Rossini
was still a student at
the Liceo Filarmonico in
Bologna when he wrote
these Variations at the
age of 18. Originally
thought to have been
written for Clarinet in C
and Orchestra, recent
scholarship, culminating
in Heinz Holliger’s
brilliant recording
(Philips 9500 564), has
provided many good
reasons why the oboe is
clearly the solo
instrument. Not only does
it ‘look like’ oboe
music but the writing
(within the oboe’s
exact range at that time)
ignores more than an
octave of the
clarinet’s potential
range. Also, it is most
unusual to find the solo
wind instrument
duplicated in the
accompanying orchestral
parts, thus providing
unnecessary competition
in
timbre.
Frédéric
Chopin: Variations on a
Theme by Rossini No
such ambiguity surrounds
the origin of Chopin’s
Variations on a Theme
from Rossini’s opera
La Cenerentola
— orginally for flute.
It is not definitely
known for whom they were
written, but they may
have been either for his
father (who played the
flute), or for his close
friend Matuszynski. They
date from 1826-30 and
here transposed from the
original E major into D
major for the oboe,
provide a valuable
addition to the
oboist’s nineteenth
century
repertoire.
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Arranged
by
Mark
Goddard Grades
7–8 Former Spartan
Press Cat. No.:
EMA142.