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.
