Oboe and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14023893
Composed by Jouni
Kaipainen. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Book [Softcover]. 84
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00466.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023893).
ISBN
9788759854785.
English.
After the
success of Carpe Diem!, a
Clarinet Concerto written
in 1990, Kaipainen went
on to write his Oboe
Concerto in 1994. Carpe
diem! exemplifies the
increasingly Classical
ideals espoused by
Kaipainen over the years.
He develops this strand
even further in his 'Oboe
Concerto', which is a
much more restrained and
balanced work in darker
tones.The piece contains
three movements, the
first of which combines
elements of a traditional
opening movement and
scherzo. The slow
movement is an affecting
elegy. The finale
consists mostly of
quietly played perpetuum
mobile figures,
interspersed with sudden
dramatic passages.