Benjamin Britten
The Complete Works for Oboe
ALEXEI UTKIN / HERMITAGE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA |
CM 0102004
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Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49 (1951) for oboe solo.
Dedicated to Joy Boughton
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Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved |
[2:20] |
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Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt |
[1:13] |
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Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain |
[2:35] |
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Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys |
[2:30] |
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Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower |
[3:40] |
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Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain |
[2:25] |
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Phantasy Quartet, op. 2 (1932) for oboe, violin, viola and cello.
Dedicated to Leon Goossens |
[12:35] |
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Insect Pieces, op. posth. (1935)
Arranged for oboe and string orchestra by Leonid Hoffman |
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The Grasshoper |
[3:22] |
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The Wasp |
[1:52] |
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Temporal Variations, op. posth. (1936).
Arranged for oboe and string orchestra by Viktor Kozodov and Alexei Utkin.
Dedicated to Montagu Slater
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Theme. Andante rubato |
[1:32] |
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Oration. Lento quasi recitativo |
[1:41] |
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March. Alla marcia |
[1:16] |
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Exercises. Allegro molto e con fuoco
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[1:02] |
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Commination. Adagio con fuoco
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[1:28] |
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Chorale. Molto lento |
[1:57] |
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Waltz. Allegretto rubato |
[1:16] |
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Polka. Tempo di Polka. Allegro |
[1:37] |
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Resolution. Maestoso (ma non troppo lento) |
[1:46] |
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Total time [46:39] |
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Text of the booklet is available in English, German, and Russian.
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Alexei Utkin, oboe (1 – 18)
Hermitage Chamber Orchestra
Pyotr Nikiforov, 1st violin (7 – 18)
Ilya Norshtein, 1st violin (8 – 18)
Maria Trishina, 1st violin (8 – 18)
Anna Poletaeva, 2nd violin (8 – 18)
Nadezhda Sergiyenko, 2nd violin (8 – 18)
Eugeny Sorkin, 2nd violin (8 – 18)
Fyodor Belugin, viola (7 – 18)
Zoya Nevolina, viola (8 – 18)
Ekaterina Dossina, cello (7 – 18)
Olga Kazantseva, cello (8 – 18)
Michael Khokhlov, double bass (8 – 18)
Acknowledgements to the Britten–Pears Library and Dr. Nicholas Clark personally for providing valuable information on the recorded compositions.
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Recording Details
Microphones - Neumann km130
DPA (B & K) 4006
DPA (B & K) 4011
SCHOEPS mk2S
SCHOEPS mk41
All the microphone buffer amplifiers and pre-amplifiers are Polyhymnia
International B.V. custom built.
DSD analogue to digital converter - Meitner design by EMM Labs.
Recording, editing and mixing on Pyramix system by Merging Technologies.
Recording Producer - Michael Serebryanyi
Balance Engineer - Erdo Groot
Recording Engineer - Roger de Schot
Editor - Carl Schuurbiers
(P)&(C) Essential Music, #16b-2, Volokolamskoye shosse,
Moscow, 125080, Russia.
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Recorded:
1.10.2004, 3.10.2004 - “Manege” Hall of The Moscow Theatre “School of Dramatic Art”, 16-17.10.2004 - 5th Studio of The Russian Television and
Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) Moscow, Russia
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