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Oboe Sonata
1992
oboe
piano
duration 10'
commissioned by Charlyn Bethell and Guy Urban
first performance:
Charlyn Bethell and Guy Urban
NuClassix Residency Series / 1st & 2nd Church, Boston / February 17, 1993
SCORE
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
RECORDING—first performance:
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PROGRAM NOTE
Opening and closing with almost identical gritty, heavy rising scales and syncopations, this work is an extended ABA form. The first movement is a truncated foreshadowing of the third movement. This continuous swathe of turbulent music is broken by the second movement; a long, graceful arching descent framed by distant chiming and the skeleton of an ornamented waltz. the third movement itself contains a gentle chordal central section echoing the ABA shape of the second movement and of the whole work.