Britten, Krenek, Doráti: oboe solo and accompanied - CD

Benjamin Britten

Temporal Variations for oboe and piano (1936)

 

1. I. Theme

01:47

 

2. II. Oration

01:39

 

3. III. March

01:05

 

4. IV. Exercises

01:00

 

5. V. Commination

01:25

 

6. VI. Chorale

02:12

 

7. VII. Waltz

01:19

 

8. VIII. Polka

01:07

 

9. IX. Resolution

01:55

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe, Op. 49

 

10. I. PAN who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved

02:27

 

11. II. PHAETON who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt

01:23

 

12. III. NIOBE who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain

02:06

 

13. IV. BACCHUS at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys

02:09

 

14. V. NARCISSUS who fell in love with his own image and became a flower

03:01

 

15. VI. ARETHUSA who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain

02:49

Two Insect Pieces for oboe and piano (1935)

 

16. I. The Grasshopper

01:53

 

17. II. The Wasp

01:46

Antal Doráti

Five Pieces for solo oboe (1980-81)

 

18. I. La cigale et la fourmie (d'après Lafontaine)

02:40

 

19. II. Lettre d'amour

03:12

 

20. III. Fugue à trois voix

02:39

 

21. IV. Berceuse

02:18

 

22. V. Légerdemain

02:30

Duo concertante for oboe and piano (1983)

 

23. I. -

07:30

 

24. II.

06:57

Ernst Krenek

Sonatina for solo oboe (1956)

 

25. I. Allegro

00:44

 

26. II. Adagietto

01:34

 

27. III. Vivace

00:53

 

28. IV. Andante

01:33

Four Pieces (1966)

 

29. I.

01:27

 

30. II.

01:45

 

31. III.

01:18

 

32. IV.

01:33