Oboe and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14028041
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score.
Composed 2002. 76 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30497. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028041).
ISBN
9788759810682.
12.0x16.5x0.533
inches.
The Small
concerto for solo oboe
and chamber orchestra was
commissioned by The Royal
Library of Copenhagen for
the inauguration of a
concert hall located at
the new library annex,
the so-called Black
Diamond, September 1999.
The work as such focuses
more on the contemplative
and sonorously introvert,
rather than more
virtuosity; it is in four
movements, what could be
called four little
tone-poems on (and
inspired by) the names of
the four moon craters
known as: Lake of Dream -
Ocean of Storms - Sea of
Tranquillity - Lake of
Death, four enigmatic and
deeply fascinating
ancient conceptions of
the landscape on this our
closest, but at the same
time most legendary and
myth-shrouded celestial
body. The work was
composed in 1998 for
Athelas-Sinfonietta
Copenhagen and Swedish
obo virtuoso Helen
Jahren. The work was
dedicated to Helen
Jahren.
