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Oboe Concerto for oboe, concertino group, and orchestra

  • Year
    1986 - 1987
  • Duration
    25'
  • Category
    Solo and Orchestra
Instrumentation
Concertino: perc(1):4timp/vib/glsp/2metal bl/2wdbl/4tpl.bl/2cowbells/4bongos/2tom-t/susp.cym/guiro-4vla; Orchestra: 1(=picc,afl).0.1(=bcl).0-1.0.1.0-perc(1):marimba/xyl/BD/tam-t/military dr/2SD/2susp.cym-strings(10.8.2.6.4 or 8.6.0.4.2)
Dedication
To Paul Sacher
Buy Score
Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Premiere
Jun 17, 1988/ Heinz Holliger / Collegium Musicum / John Carewe/ Grosser Tonhallesaal, Zürich Festival, Zürich
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In this Oboe Concerto, which is in one continuous movement, the soloist is accompanied in its widely varying, mercurial moods by a percussionist and four violas. The main orchestra opposes their flighty changes with a more regular series of ideas, usually on the serious side, sometimes bursting out dramatically. Each of the two groups use different musical materials which they develop throughout the work.

I am deeply grateful to Paul Sacher for having proposed and commissioned this concerto and to Heniz Holliger, for whom it was commissioned, for his advice aobut the instrument and his wonderful performances. The work was composed during part of 1986-87.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (5)
  • Elliott Carter: Oboe Concerto; Espirit Rude/Esprit Doux; A Mirror on Which to Dwell; Penthode
    Apex 85738 92272 (2001)
    Heinz Holliger, oboe | Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor | Sophie Cherrier, flute | André Trouttet, clarinet | Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
  • 10 Jahre Paul Sacher Stiftung
    Editiones Roche 72118 (1996)
    Heinz Holliger, English horn | Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor
  • Boulez: Schoenberg, Berio, Carter, Kurtág, Xenakis
    Erato 4509-98496-2 (1995)
    Heinz Holliger, oboe | Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor | Sophie Cherrier | André Trouttet, clarinet | Phyllis Bryn-Julson
  • 40 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage 1950-1990
    Col Legno AU 31800 (4 cd) (1991)
    Heinz Holliger, oboe | SWF Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen, conductor
  • Elliott Carter: Oboe Concerto; Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux; A Mirror on Which to Dwell; Penthode
    Erato ECD 75553 (1990)
    Heinz Holliger, oboe | Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor | Sophie Cherrier | André Trouttet, clarinet | Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
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