English Music for Oboe and Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95435
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 8th December 2017
Contents
Artists
Marika Lombardi (oboe)Nathalie Dang (piano)
Works
Oboe Sonata, op.85Temporal Variations
Oboe Sonata
Oboe Sonata, op.100
Artists
Marika Lombardi (oboe)Nathalie Dang (piano)
About
In her introduction to the album, the Italian oboist Marika Lombardi reflects on the intimacy of this association: ‘The oboe can sound close to the human voice and in the Temporal Variations I feel Britten is virtually “speaking” to us. In fact, all four composers wrote quite marvellously for the oboe, exploiting all its range and expressive palette, from plaintive to aggressive or cutting, from to lyrical to melancholic. They also make oboe and piano speak as one voice – a voice that can express deep feelings. The conclusion of the Howells sonata is a case in point, being a true hymn to Paradise that leaves the audience moved every time we perform it.’
A gentle, almost Minimalist opening to Edmund Rubbra’s Sonata opens out to a characteristically long‐limbed and reflective melody. At its heart lies a brief but affecting elegy. York Bowen is another composer overshadowed until recently by the likes of Vaughan Williams and Britten, but he was praised by Saint‐Saëns in 1903 as ‘the most remarkable of the young British composers’ and compared to Rachmaninov as both a pianist of formidable gifts and in his virtuosic writing for the instrument. Meanwhile, the Sonata by Herbert Howells is a wartime work, unperformed at the time by its dedicatee, Leon Goossens, and only receiving its premiere in 1984. The most substantial work on the album, the sonata’s moods reflect their troubled times, not least in refuge from them.
Marika Lombardi formed her duo with the French pianist Nathalie Dang in 2003. They have since toured Europe together, while also pursuing successful careers as both soloists and teachers.
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