Al Valles Hautbois, Piano (duo) Editorial de Musica Boileau
Oboe and piano SKU: BO.B.3647 Composed by Jordi Cervello. Published by Ed...(+)
Oboe and piano
SKU:
BO.B.3647
Composed by
Jordi Cervello. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3647).
Al Valles, for
oboe and piano, is a work
that has two distinct
characteristics-it is a
concert work but was
composed as a work for a
final examination piece.
The work is dedicated to
Vicent Montalt, who
performed it for his
final examination at the
Mozarteum in Saltzburg,
2012.
Al Valles
begins with a
Paganini-like cadenza for
the oboe which introduces
the main feature of the
work- the alternation of
legato with spiccato
which is at times rapid
and at other times lento.
The cadenza is followed
by an Allegro which
begins with decisiveness
by the piano. The two
instruments establish a
game of brief and very
specific rhythmic figures
with rapid chromatic
descents, which in the
piano are in octaves. A
tranquil and mysterious
passage ends with a
sudden fortissimo. The
oboe plays another
cadenza, reminiscent of
the first one, which is
followed by a return of
the Allegro. However,
this time the music stops
on a trill on F # in the
high register of the
oboe. The work concludes
with a rapid coda which
begins brilliantly in the
piano with chromatic
descending octaves.