When There Are No Words... Revolutionary Works for Oboe and Piano
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000208
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 6th January 2023
Contents
Works
Aubade - for the Continuation of LifeTemporal Variations
Suite for oboe and piano, op.17
Oboe Sonata
Etudes (3)
Suite for oboe and piano
Artists
Alex Klein (oboe)Phillip Bush (piano)
Works
Aubade - for the Continuation of LifeTemporal Variations
Suite for oboe and piano, op.17
Oboe Sonata
Etudes (3)
Suite for oboe and piano
Artists
Alex Klein (oboe)Phillip Bush (piano)
About
The Brazilian-born oboe virtuoso’s passionate project, with its underlying appeal for tolerance, encompasses works by Czech, German, British, American, and Brazilian composers. Much of the music evinces a calm lyricism and melodious beauty that belie the composers’ difficult circumstances. Some were exiled from their native countries, others despaired of impending war. One, Pavel Haas, died in Auschwitz.
Paul Hindemith’s 1938 Sonata for Oboe and Piano, written in Swiss exile, is said to represent happier days in his native Germany. Pavel Haas’s Suite for Oboe and Piano, composed at the outset of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, shares the complex musical language of his teacher, Leoš Janáček. William Bolcom’s ultimately hopeful Aubade – for the Continuation of Life, written amid early 1980s fears of nuclear war, forges a fragile coexistence between cello and piano. Benjamin Britten’s Temporal Variations, written on the eve of World War II, expresses the composer’s anti-militarism. José Siqueira wrote his tuneful Three Etudes for Oboe with Piano Accompaniment shortly before fleeing Brazil’s military dictatorship. Klement Slavický’s professional musical career had been derailed by the Czech Communist regime by the time he wrote his virtuosic Suite for Oboe and Piano.
Klein and Bush made their Cedille label debut as a duo on 2019’s Twentieth Century Oboe Sonatas (Cedille Records CDR90000186). Stereophile called it “a recording to cherish” and “a program overflowing with free, energetic playing.” Gramophone admired Klein’s “elegant articulation and rich lucid tone” and praised Bush as “an alert and sympathetic partner.” Classical Music Daily declared, “This is a great disc – any wind player, and particularly oboists, must buy this. What a fantastic and inspiring team Alex Klein and Phillip Bush make.”
Klein’s Cedille Records discography includes ten albums on which he appears as headliner or guest soloist in repertoire spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th-Century, and contemporary eras.
He won a Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Instrumental Solo Performance (with Orchestra) for his recording of Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto with conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Teldec).
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